Can You Teach Democracy? The Soft Power of Foreign Exchange Programs
Each year, the US spends millions on academic and cultural exchange programs. Motivated in promoting liberal values and democratization, these…
Each year, the US spends millions on academic and cultural exchange programs. Motivated in promoting liberal values and democratization, these…
Classic theories of international relations suggest that conflict results from states’ inability to consider security issues from one another’s perspectives.…
Russian soldiers in Ukraine are accused of war crimes and violations of human rights, including murder and sexual violence. Western…
Newspaper headlines at Waterloo station on July 7 2005. Image: Ellywa // wikimedia.org It is well established that terrorist attacks…
In March 2022, the Senate Judiciary Committee held confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. As the first Black woman…
Making research findings accessible “[S]tudents, public officials, and scholars should not need to understand phrases like “coefficient,” “statistically significant,” and…
Women wait in queues to cast their votes outside a polling station during the 2019 Indian general election. Image: Anuwar…
We study whether political preferences affect the uptake of social programs, and find that supporters of the party or the…
Democracies are littered with imprints from their authoritarian pasts. Authoritarian-era successor parties and politicians often remain on the scene and…
Electoral incentives shape candidates’ decisions to cultivate certain group identities. Dan Posner, for example, famously showed how Zambian candidates respond…