Unequal Rewards to Firms: Stock Market Responses to the Trump Election and the 2017 Corporate Tax Reform
Massive dollars shuttled back and forth among firms on the twisted path to and passage of the 2017 tax reform.
Research
Off-Cycle and Out of Office: Election Timing and the Incumbency Advantage
Democratic accountability relies on the ability of citizens to reward and punish politicians in elections.
Value for Money? Community Targeting in Vote-Buying and Politician Accountability
Community targeting of vote payments - defined as the saturation of entire neighborhoods with cash prior to elections - is widespread in the developing world.
The Politics of Selecting the Bench from the Bar: The Legal Profession and Partisan Incentives to Introduce Ideology into Judicial Selection
Using a new dataset capturing the ideological positioning of nearly half a million U.S.
The Chairman of Everything
The author explains why he believes Xi Jinping, president of China, will change history.
On Veteran's Day, let's honor the promises we've made to veterans
Professor Linda Bilmes discusses ways to honor US veterans.
No Funeral Bells: Public Reason in a ‘Post-Truth’ Age
The label ‘post-truth’ signals for many a troubling turn away from principles of enlightened government.
The Big Picture: Multiracial Cooperation
This is the first installment of The Big Picture, a public symposium on what’s at stake in Trump’s America, co-organized by Public Books and NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge.
Executive-Legislative Relations, Party Defections, and Lower-Level Administrative Unit Proliferation: Evidence from Kenya
Over the past 25 years, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of subnational administrative units within developing countries.
News Coverage of Donald Trump’s First 100 Days
“The press is your enemy,” said the president. “Enemies. Understand that?
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