What impact do mass civil society groups have on public policy? We study this issue by analyzing opposition to national prohibition by…
Officials working on public policies must answer questions like ‘What does policy success mean?’ and ‘How should I pursue policy work in…
Experiences in real-world pollution markets suggest that firms make persistent errors in forecasting allowance and credit prices that…
The ability to exercise leadership effectively requires skills and capacities that must be developed; they are not innate. Leadership is…
Legislative leaders tend to be ideologically more extreme than their median members. Why? This paper shows that party members select…
This paper studies the role of technology in local-government tax collection capacity in the developing world. We first conduct a new…
Does personal and family history influence legislative behavior in democracies? Linking members of Congress to the census, we observe…
Containing the COVID-19 pandemic will confer global benefits that greatly exceed the costs, but effective solutions require the…
The concept of trustworthiness can be understood to involve an informal social contract where principals authorize others to act on their…
The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) provides the largest infusion of federal funding for Indian Country in the history of the United States…