The structure of opportunities for citizen activism in democratic or autocratic regime diverge sharply, such as in freedom of expression,…
July 2022. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interviewed Archon Fung, the Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government…
Many topics social scientists study are sensitive in nature. Although we know some people may be reluctant to respond to sensitive…
After the 2014 uprising against widespread corruption under former Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych, a group of civic activists and…
What impact do mass civil society groups have on public policy? We study this issue by analyzing opposition to national prohibition by…
Has the US Supreme Court become more conservative than the public? We introduce results of three surveys conducted over the course of a…
May 2022. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interviewed Fredrik Logevall, Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy…
Scholars of descriptive representation have paid growing attention to the issue of class. This article contributes to this line of research…
Committee formation in early American legislatures happened when those assemblies were inundated with petitions, a relationship unexamined…
A segment of the American population has long embraced conspiratorial thinking. False beliefs about moon landings or space aliens may seem…