On Saturday, Egyptians voted in a national referendum on the country's new constitution, drafted over the course of six months by a largely…
Motivated by a novel stylized fact -- countries with isolated capital cities display worse quality of governance -- we provide a framework…
The curricula of schools of public policy and management cover three broad areas: policy analysis, strategic management, and politics. The…
After working with Egypt’s president, Mohammad Morsi, to broker a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas last month, President Barack Obama…
Book abstract: The Handbook of Organizational Economics surveys the major theories, evidence, and methods used in the field. It displays…
In The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a
Category of Bourgeois Society (henceforth STPS), his earliest…
Forgive me, but haven't we seen this movie before in the aftermath of national elections? Usually, it doesn't end well.
In the weeks since…
Africa's democratic transition is back in the spotlight. The concern is no longer the stranglehold of autocrats, but the hijacking of the…
Twenty years ago, Edward Djerejian, a former U.S. diplomat, famously worried that Islamists would exploit democratic elections to come to…
Book abstract: In recent years, remarkable progress has been made in behavioral research on a wide variety of topics, from behavioral…