Meet the faculty, staff, and fellows working toward more equal, inclusive, multiracial, and multiethnic democracy and self-government ...

I received my bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Faculty of Architecture at Vienna University of Technology, and completed my Ph.D. in 2018 at the Faculty of Architecture, Yıldız Technical ...

As a part of the Allen Lab’s Political Economy of AI Essay Collection, David Gray Widder and Mar Hicks draw on the history of tech hype cycles to warn against the harmful effects of the current ...

Elon Musk’s role as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, also known as DOGE, is on the surface a dramatic effort to overhaul the inefficiencies of federal bureaucracy. But beneath the ...

The Electoral College and Our Broken Presidential Election System Roughly 80 percent of the population who do not live in “swing states” lack a clear notion of what they “need to do” to actively ...

Commentary May 14, 2025 The Voter Experience Despite these unprecedented investments in mobilizing voters, overall trust in electoral health, democratic institutions, voter satisfaction, and electoral ...

Over the past several weeks, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) within the Trump Administration has been embedding staff in a range of United States federal agencies. These staff have ...

Five Years Later, Erica Licht and Nikhil Raghuveera Bid Farewell to Untying Knots Over the past five years, Untying Knots has served as a vital platform for conversations about racial justice, ...

Governments throughout history have used detention as a tool to silence dissent, isolate marginalized groups, and punish with impunity – often targeting people based on race, status, or supposed ...

Commentary Jun 7, 2024 Using AI for Political Polling Will AI-assisted polls soon replace more traditional techniques?

In this op-ed, Jennifer Hochschild explains that Chicago is facing a financial crisis decades in the making — a crushing burden of pension debt that no current resident created but all must bear.

The Real Numbers: Tracking Crowd Sizes at Presidential Rallies This post uses the Crowd Counting Consortium’s data on U.S. protest activity since 2017 to estimate and compare the average size of the ...