Stephen Walt on What to Expect From 2024
Columnist Stephen Walt looks back at the most important trends and developments in 2023. His next assignment is significantly tougher: predicting how global events will play out in 2024.
Research
Effect of an Intensive Food-as-Medicine Program on Health and Health Care Use: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Question: Among patients with diabetes who are food insecure, does an intensive food-as-medicine program that provides healthy groceries plus dietitian consultations, education, and health coaching im
Adoption of Internal Medicine Milestone Ratings and Changes in Bias Against Black, Latino, and Asian Internal Medicine Residents
In this article, we examine evaluation bias against Black, Latino, and Asian residents before and after a major change in the way internal medicine (IM) residents were evaluated that may have affected
Where the Sidewalk Ends: How Participation Contributes to Inequity in Basic Government Service Provision
Do biases in representation arise at the most basic levels of policy implementation, and can political participation contribute to these inequities?
The Electoral and Policy Effects of Election Timing in City and County Government
In recent years, a consensus has developed among scholars that the timing of elections has large effects on the electoral and political process at the local level.
Bottlenecks for Evidence Adoption
Governments increasingly use RCTs to test innovations, yet we know little about how they incorporate results into policy-making. We study 30 U.S. cities that ran 73RCTs with a national Nudge Unit.
The deepest foundation of our democratic crisis
The deepest foundation of our democratic crisis is our increasing human interdependence.
A Practical Guide to Perpetual Peace
How to take realistic (and realist) steps toward a more utopian world order.
American local government elections database
The study of urban and local politics in the United States has long been hindered by a lack of centralized sources of election data.
The effects of a place-based intervention on resident reporting of crime and service needs: A frontier matching approach
Objectives: Prior research has found that reporting behavior of crime incidents and service needs remain low in many U.S. cities, which may be improved by place-based interventions.
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