The influence of early events in the history of a country, a social phenomenon, or an organization on later developments has received…
Traditional decision theory distinguishes between risk and uncertainty. With risk, the probabilities of possible outcomes are known; with…
Approximately 1-in-7 people and 1-in-4 children received benefits from the US Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program (SNAP) in July 2011…
Many organizations have budgets that expire at the end of the fiscal year. Faced with uncertainty
over future spending demands, these…
International organizations like the International Monetary Fund and World Bank have been
supporting reform initiatives in developing…
The approach of 2015, the target date of the Millennium Development Goals, sets the stage for a global
reengagement on the question of “…
How do partisan media affect polarization and partisanship? The rise of Fox News,
MSNBC, and hyper-partisan outlets online gives this…
This paper evaluates the dynamics of small group persuasion within a large scale randomized
deliberative experiment, in particular whether…
To date, field experiments on campaign tactics have focused overwhelmingly on mobilization and voter turnout, with far more limited…
This paper, written for a centennial commemoration of the founding of the U.S. Federal Trade Commision, reviews the history of two major…