Give me a week to give up my freedoms
Newspaper headlines at Waterloo station on July 7 2005. Image: Ellywa // wikimedia.org It is well established that terrorist attacks…
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Americans Seek Ideological—Not Identity—Congruence in Judges
In March 2022, the Senate Judiciary Committee held confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. As the first Black woman…
So you think you can tell significant from insignificant differences?
Making research findings accessible “[S]tudents, public officials, and scholars should not need to understand phrases like “coefficient,” “statistically significant,” and…
Political Empowering Through Employment: Impact of the World’s Largest Workfare Program on Indian Women
Women wait in queues to cast their votes outside a polling station during the 2019 Indian general election. Image: Anuwar…
Does politics affect the uptake of social policies?
We study whether political preferences affect the uptake of social programs, and find that supporters of the party or the…
The Political Price Authoritarians Pay for Misdeeds
Democracies are littered with imprints from their authoritarian pasts. Authoritarian-era successor parties and politicians often remain on the scene and…
Strategically Ambiguous Identities
Electoral incentives shape candidates’ decisions to cultivate certain group identities. Dan Posner, for example, famously showed how Zambian candidates respond…
George Floyd’s Murder Decreased Support for Local Police Budgets
The phrase “defund the police” entered the public imagination in summer 2020, as the nation became engulfed in social unrest…
Dominant Personality and Politically Inexperienced Presidents Challenge Term Limits
Presidents from all around the world are reforming the constitutions of their countries to extend their terms in office. This…
Sending refugees to rural areas might not be such a bad idea after all
Noormuhammad Noori, a resident of the Kyyjärvi asylum seeker reception centre, stands with social services director Päivi Peltokangas and the…