This ethnographic study begins by outlining two competing conceptions of democracy, the participatory and representative views. These conceptions frame an analysis of the practices for socialization for democratic citizenship ...

We examine the role of visibility in influencing government resource allocation across multiple public goods. In an electoral framework, outcomes are defined to be less visible in tasks if it is harder to assess government ...

Sanford Levinson calls for a new constitutional convention in Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (and How We the People Can Correct It). This review explains how Levinson overstates the ...

This response to Professor Dan Kahan’s recent Harvard Foreword, Neutral Principles, Motivated Cognition, and Some Problems for Constitutional Law, argues that while Kahan accurately describes the contemporary “neutrality ...

The revolutionary poetry of the Costa Rican writer and politician Carmen Naranjo (1928-2012) repeatedly confronts the idyllic portrayal of her country as devoid of social conflict. Within a political climate strained by ...

Within this paper, I am going to synthesize the most effective implementation of democratic principles applied within a school setting. The end result I hope to achieve is to make schools more responsive and relevant to ...

This research project aims to answer the question as to why some new democracies develop astronomically high levels of criminal violence, whereas in others, violence is far more limited. This inquiry is related to a more ...

This capstone project was created to answer the following question: How does a university respond to a crisis event? The focal site was Missouri State University (MSU) in Springfield, Missouri, and the lens through which ...

Many students attend after-school programs, which can bolster their academic and developmental outcomes. However, after-school program practitioners often do not incorporate data into practice to the same extent as ...