As the debt negotiators square off in Congress, much attention will focus on the size of the 10-year budget deal they come up with. As…
Then-Secretary of Defense Robert Gates traveled to Brussels in June, where he warned European allies of the “dwindling … patience in the U.…
It's hard to remember a simmering crisis when America's political leaders have painted themselves into so many corners, but that's where we…
Background: With the introduction of Part D drug benefits, Medicare began to collect information on diagnoses, treatments, and clinical…
The BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill highlighted the glaring weakness in the current liability and regulatory regime for oil spills and for…
Movements in asset prices are a major risk confronting individuals. This paper establishes new asset pricing results when agents differ in…
This month marks the 40th anniversary of Henry Kissinger’s secret trip to Beijing, which launched the process of mending a 20-year breach…
Text Messages as Mobilization Tools: The Conditional Effect of Habitual Voting and Election Salience
Dale and Strauss’s (DS) noticeable reminder theory (NRT) of voter mobilization posits that mobilization efforts that are highly noticeable…
In most recent writings about governance reform and development,
recipes are out. So are “one size ?ts all” and idealized end states.…
Do prisons make us safer? By taking would-be offenders off the streets, prisons clearly have reduced crime in the short run. In the long…