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Crowdsourcing accountability: ICT for service delivery
December 2018
We examine the effect on service delivery outcomes of a new information communication technology (ICT) platform that allows citizens to send free and anonymous messages to local government...
Geography, Uncertainty, and Polarization
March 2018
Using new data on roll-call voting of US state legislators and public opinion in their districts, we explain how ideological polarization of voters within districts can lead to legislative...
Let’s get the facts right on foreign involvement in our elections
December 2017
President-elect Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election and will be the next president of the United States.
Hoist on their own petards? The reinvention and collapse of authoritarian successor parties
November 2017
What happens to authoritarian ruling parties when they accept democracy and reinvent their organizations, symbols, and programs to comply with the norms of free political competition?
Who Speaks for the Poor? Electoral Geography, Party Entry, and Representation
September 2017
Who Speaks for the Poor? explains why parties represent some groups and not others.
The Illusions of Disillusion
June 2017
Three-quarters of 1 percent: that was the vote tally
that Jean-Marie Le Pen managed to eke out the first time he ran for the presidency of France in the early 1970s.
Trump is right: The United States needs electoral reform
February 2017
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has claimed that the U.S. presidential election is rigged.
Ce qu'ils disent vraiment: Les politiques pris aux mots
January 2017
"Liberty," "secularism," "security," "people," "identity" . . .
Election 2016: A Postmortem
January 2017
In both foreign and domestic policy, the presidentelect has taken several positions that are quite different from the party leadership.
Election 2016, Environmental Nationalism, and Palestinian Shame
December 2016
After a rancorous and ugly presidential campaign, in which vitriol and name-calling replaced discussion and policy, one moment stands out for its dignity: President Obama’s grace and generosity...
Economic Fairness and America’s Presidential Election
May 2016
As the American presidential election nears, Stanford political scientist and TEC director Kenneth Scheve and David Stasavage (New York University) argue that the next president could deal with...
Is Poland Really Lost? Poland’s Contested Governance Reforms and the Further Role of the Central Eastern European Area (CEE) in the EU
February 2016
On January 13, 2016 for the first time in its history the European Union launched an investigation against one of its full member states, i.e. Poland.
Winds of Change: Voter Blame and Storm Gudrun in the 2006 Swedish Parliamentary Election
December 2015
Can a natural disaster shift long-standing party support for the long-term?
Geography and Gridlock in the United States
April 2015
"Geography and Gridlock in the United States" is chapter 7 of the book Solutions to Political Polarization in America, edited by Nathaniel Persily and published by the Cambridge University Press...
Marine Le Pen Prise aux Mots: Decryptage du Nouveau Discours Frontiste
February 2015
At a time when Marine Le Pen gained momentum on the political and media scene and has garnered unprecedented electoral results, it is urgent to decipher the logic of her father's speech and the...
The European parliament elections in 2014 are about more than protest votes
June 2013
The European Parliament elections in May 2014 are about more than protest votes.
The Debt Crisis Consummates the End of the European Nation States
September 2012
The debt crisis is clear: Smaller areas can be managed better than large nations. Therefore they should be autonomous - under the umbrella of the European Union.
People
Timothy E. Josling Senior Fellow, by courtesy Professor, Food Research Institute, Emeritus, 1940-2018