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When President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act into law, his action honored a decades-long struggle by grassroots activists and dedicated political leaders to…
What are the social and political consequences of poor state governance and low state legitimacy? Under what conditions does lynching – lethal, extralegal group violence to punish…
Though much attention has been paid to different principles of justice, far less has been done reflecting on what the larger concern behind the notion is. In this work, Mathias…
Carr Center Discussion Paper Series (2019-009)
The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy launched an ambitious initiative in the fall of 2019 to advance the renewal of rights and responsibilities in the United States. The…
How do ‘people power’ movements succeed when modest proportions of the population participate? Here we propose that the effects of social movements increase as they gain momentum…
See the op-ed in The Boston Globe by Carr Senior Fellow .
An authoritarian…
This working paper focuses on the legal protection awarded to the Arab populations under Israeli jurisdiction.
In analyzing their legal protection, the author…
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Power explores a particularly American phenomenon in which journalists, advocates and US policymakers draw comparisons between contemporary cases of genocide and the Holocaust.…