Politics and science have become increasingly intertwined. Salient scientific issues, such as climate change, evolution, and stem-cell…
Research in American foreign policy holds that the public’s support for war significantly depends on the number of US casualties in the…
A culture of trust is usually claimed to have many public benefits--by lubricating markets, managing organizations, legitimating…
Lotem Bassan-Nygate is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Her research lies…
Housing policy is one of the most important areas of local politics. Yet little is known about how local legislatures and executives make…
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…
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ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Professor Maya Sen, who has researched how Supreme Court decisions align with public opinion, reflects on the meaning of the historic…