In expanding its program that lets residents vote on public spending, New York City is enlivening democracy and engaging the electorate.
Research featuring Carr Center's Erica Chenoweth.
Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts –…
Monitors report that many elections around the world are flawed by problems of corruption and violence – sometimes both. These malpractices…
This paper argues that the debt forgiveness provided by the U.S. consumer bankruptcy system helped stabilize employment levels during the…
Following the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh, the labour rights violations in global supply chains, and indeed the governance of…
Previous research by Goldstone et al. (2010) generated a highly accurate predictive model of state-level political instability. Notably,…
As a project in Long Beach demonstrates, treating people as individuals rather than as statistics can yield big benefits.
In explaining the emergence of new strategic action fields, in which social movements’ and organizations’ logic, rules and strategies are…
In this essay, I begin with the US case, then turn to the Arab world, and then look at global
trends. All three books touch on the ways in…
Few American historians of his generation have had as much influence in both the academic and popular realms as Alan Brinkley. His debut…