Traditional models of why people vote conceptualize voting as a static, self-interested
decision. This conceptualization cannot explain why…
Please see RWP13-010 (April 2013) for the updated version of this working paper.
Are China’s citizens sufficiently satisfied to reduce potential challenges to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rule? It is reasonable to…
We investigate how the link between individual schooling and political participation is aff ected by country characteristics. Using…
Scholars continue to debate what citizens know about politics, whether ordinary people lack the capacity to make rational and informed…
Death has long been a pre-occupation of philosophers, and this is especially so today. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death collects…
Ballot initiatives are consequential and common, with total spending on initiative campaigns in
the US rivaling that of Presidential…
The two traditional ways of thinking about justice at the global level either limit the applicability of justice to states or else extend…
The emerging consensus about Thursday night's vice presidential debate is that there was a high degree of professionalism on the stage. Why…
The new Libyan government has plenty of worries. There was the deadly attack on the US consulate in Benghazi. Both Islamist militias and…