Government

At the heart of the economics of aging is the key question: how should we divide things between retired and working people? As the population gets older, answering that question will get more difficult.

Contesting the USA Patriot Act Just months after the release of the U.S. Senate report on torture, the precarious balance between national security and civil liberties has made headlines once again. This...

As the most unpredictable election in decades, Britain’s May 2015 election has all the fascination of a slow-motion car crash.

A working paper published on an academic website creates a stir

It’s hard to decide what the highly acclaimed Russian political drama, Leviathan, does best: masterfully capture the key facets of Russian life under Putin or convey the universal hopelessness in any...

Does a low energy price environment creates more winners than losers?

In the past few decades, quantitative data analysis seems to have gained disproportionate status and attention within the field of political science. Students tell me that their senior thesis must include statistics or it will not be “real” social science. But this cleavage in research methods is far from gender neutral.