Fifty years ago, the Cuban missile crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear disaster. During the standoff, U.S. President John F.…
The 2012 election campaign—for Congress as well as the presidency—promises to be bitterly fought, even nasty. Leaders of both major parties…
Compromise is difficult, but governing a democracy without compromise is impossible. Anyone who doubts either the difficulty or the…
Book abstract: The SAGE Handbook of Political Communication is an authoritative and comprehensive survey of political communication drawing…
Book abstract: This timely book takes stock of the state of the art and future of electronic democracy, exploring the history and potential…
We investigate whether leading indicators can help explain the cross-country incidence of the 2008–09 financial crisis. Rather than looking…
'Deliberative democracy' is often dismissed as a set of small-scale, academic experiments. This volume seeks to demonstrate how the…
'Deliberative democracy' is often dismissed as a set of small-scale, academic experiments. This volume seeks to demonstrate how the…
Some of the most dramatic energy developments of recent years have been in the realm of natural gas. Huge quantities of unconventional US…
Urban Public Finance. Edward Glaeser, July 2012, Paper. "America's local governments spend about one-eighth of our national income,…