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…
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…