Research
Political Campaigns and Big Data
Modern campaigns develop databases of detailed information about citizens to inform electoral strategy and to guide tactical efforts.
Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics
In 2005 Michael Ignatieff left his life as a writer and professor at Harvard University to enter the combative world of politics back home in Canada.
The Justice Cascade: The Origins and Effectiveness of Prosecutions of Human Rights Violations
The justice cascade refers to a new global trend of holding political leaders criminally accountable for past human rights violations through domestic and international prosecutions.
The Electoral Performance of Center-Left Parties: Putting ‘Decline’ in Perspective
Book abstract: Those who hoped the collapse of financial markets would usher in the end of neoliberalism and rehabilitate support for traditional social democratic policies programmes have been disapp
The Affordable Care Act: A User's Guide to Implementation
Sheila Burke and Elaine Kamarck seek to offer a balanced way of looking at the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) that goes beyond today’s thorny political situation.
Assessing the Quality of Elections
Many malpractices generate flawed elections which fail to meet international standards of electoral integrity, including issues such as fraud, malpractice, vote-rigging, ballot-stuffing, and voter sup
Ideology, Deliberation and Persuasion within Small Groups: A Randomized Field Experiment on Fiscal Policy
This paper evaluates the dynamics of small group persuasion within a large scale randomized deliberative experiment, in particular whether persuasion in this context is driven by the ideological compo
Unresponsive and Unpersuaded: The Unintended Consequences of Voter Persuasion Efforts
To date, field experiments on campaign tactics have focused overwhelmingly on mobilization and voter turnout, with far more limited attention to persuasion and vote choice.
The Three Presidencies: Power and Policy
Book abstract: For more than 25 years, The Presidency and the Political System has showcased the best of presidential studies and research with top-notch scholars writing specifically for an undergrad
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