Cash transfers seem to be the latest fad. With elections looming, the Prime Minister’s National Committee on Direct Cash Transfers has been…
Twenty years ago, Edward Djerejian, a former U.S. diplomat, famously worried that Islamists would exploit democratic elections to come to…
On December 16 Japan will hold an election and if the polls are correct, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda will be replaced by Shinzo Abe, the…
Though the dust from the election has barely settled — the nation has already moved on.
Consuming our attention now is the budget crisis…
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…
As we celebrate Thanksgiving this year, the world seems troubled, from the Hamas-Israel stand-off in Gaza to Syria’s bloody civil war to…
Iron Dome, Israel’s rocket defense system, fundamentally altered the dynamic between Israel and the Palestinians in Gaza. The system…
For a United States citizen, the short trip to Havana requires navigating an obstacle course, owing to the trade and travel embargo that…
A principal provides budgets to agents (e.g., divisions of a firm or the principal’s children) whose expenditures provide her benefits,…