After spending a week in India, I was surprised to return to the news that true blue Massachusetts had acquired its first Republican…
For decades, public officials viewed voters either as passive recipients of government largesse or as active advocates for special…
Whenever some idea attracts anything approaching universal support it becomes the academic's duty and privilege to throw a few rocks at it…
Education choice exercises a powerful pull on parents of school children: Twenty-four percent report that they moved to their current…
Approximately 30 years have passed since Herman Goldstein (1979) first articulated the
basic principles of problem-oriented policing.…
It is striking how often countries with oil or other natural resource wealth have failed to grow more rapidly than those without. This is…
A new technique for estimating countries’ de facto exchange rate regimes synthesizes two approaches. One approach estimates the implicit…
With the explosive growth of transnational dealings, professionals in developed countries have expanding opportunities to spread their…
There is a strong connection between
per-worker productivity and metropolitan area population, which is
commonly interpreted as…
Book Abstract: Politicians, professors, pundits, and programmers come together to provide a multi-faceted and nonpartisan account of the…