The "aspirational" ideal in democracy is citizen authorship of the laws. That ideal at its fullest is unachievable even in direct…
November 2020. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interviewed Joseph S. Nye, Jr., University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus and former…
November 12, 2020, Video: "Harvard Kennedy School faculty discuss the challenges faced by the incoming U.S. presidential administration,…
After more than a century of expanding the voting rights of previously disenfranchised groups, the American electoral system today is…
How do expressions of support or opposition by the U.S. federal government, influence violent hate crimes against specific racial and…
Populism studies have rapidly burgeoned but systematic global empirical evidence about this phenomenon has lagged behind. How can party…
Roughly a thousand people are killed by American law enforcement officers each
year, accounting for more than 5% of all homicides. We…
Among our greatest leaders are those driven by impulses they cannot completely control - by lust. Lust is not, however, an abstraction, it…
Inequalities in voter participation between groups of the population pose a problem for democratic representation. We use administrative…