Arab Spring
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How Republics Fell and Monarchies Survived the Arab Spring
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What made monarchies more resilient during the Arab Spring as compared to republics? To understand this conundrum, Robert Snyder offers an ideological-institutional framework in The Arab Uprising and the Persistence of Monarchy.
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The Institutional Design of Sustainable Democracy
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A durable democracy, which would sustain a functioning market economy, requires institutional restrictions on the ability of democratically elected officials to set policies.
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Freud, Bioethics or Methodology? The Menlo Park School of Psychology Innovates
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In possibly the largest natural experiment ever, data scientists test emotional contagion and convergence using mathematics, software algorithms, and a twist on classical psychological tenets, toeing the line of ethical responsibility and privacy protection.
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Testing Recipes for Regime Change
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Authors examine socioeconomic and political factors that make countries more likely to experience regime change