The ideology of American lawyers has been a persistent source of discussion and debate. Two
obstacles, however, have prevented this topic…
Why are judicial nominees allowed to refuse to answer questions about important issues
that could come before the courts? We address this…
In this paper I sketch key episodes in the two thousand year history of interactions between society and environment that have shaped the…
Does the government control of school systems facilitate equality in school quality? Whether centralized or localized control produces more…
Business and human rights became an increasingly prominent feature on the international agenda in the 1990s. Global markets widened and…
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A housing lottery in an Indian city provided winning slum dwellers the
opportunity to move into improved housing on the city’s periphery.…
Existing research maintains that governments delegate extreme, gratuitous, or excessively brutal violence to militias. However, analyzing…
What limits should be placed on the public power to take private property? Ten years ago, when the Supreme Court heard the case of Kelo v.…
During recent years, U.S. states have often diverged by adopting either more lenient or stricter electoral procedures. What have been the…
What has driven the worldwide adoption and subsequent revision of gender quota policies? This study argues that this phenomenon can be best…