The great transition from farm to city is filled with economic, social, and political promise. Cities are the product of a triad of forces…
Approximately 1-in-7 people and 1-in-4 children received benefits from the US Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program (SNAP) in July 2011…
Book abstract: How do individual Africans view competitive elections? How do they behave at election time? What are the implications of new…
This paper reviews the theory and historical developments that made it possible for the world's least affluent citizens to obtain the…
A broad array of law enforcement strategies, from income tax to bank regulation, involve self-reporting by regulated agents and auditing of…
As thin as the gossamer of thought and as thick as the successful entrepreneur's bankroll, the concept of intellectual property (IP)…
Appearing a few months after the 25th anniversary of the publication of The Truly Disadvantaged, this article critically reflects on some…
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington, DC, Professor Burns lauds…
Can protests cause political change, or are they merely symptoms of underlying shifts in policy preferences? We address this question by…
My hometown — Port Clinton, Ohio, population 6,050 — was in the 1950s a passable embodiment of the American dream, a place that offered…