Why are women still relatively scarce in the international studies profession? Although women have entered careers in international studies…
Book abstract: How do individual Africans view competitive elections? How do they behave at election time? What are the implications of new…
Appearing a few months after the 25th anniversary of the publication of The Truly Disadvantaged, this article critically reflects on some…
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington, DC, Professor Burns lauds…
My hometown — Port Clinton, Ohio, population 6,050 — was in the 1950s a passable embodiment of the American dream, a place that offered…
Much of the current scholarship on wartime violence, including studies of the combatants themselves, assumes that women are victims and men…
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We evaluate a 'girl-friendly' primary school program in Burkina Faso using a regression discontinuity design. After 2.5 years, the program…
"If I like a boy I cannot tell anybody about my choice because I am a girl. I like making friends with boys but being a girl I cannot do…
A policy experiment in India suggests that placing female leaders in positions of power can dramatically change public attitudes.