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Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures

Gabrielle Hecht dives into the wastes of gold and uranium mining in South Africa to explore how communities, experts, and artists fight for infrastructural and environmental justice.

Residual Governance

graphic represntations of computers and phones connected to tettering boxes of files and then connected to law enforcement in a complex web on a blue background.

The Strengths and Weaknesses of the Online Child Safety Ecosystem

Scholars from the Stanford Internet Observatory outline what needs to be done to improve the CyberTipline pipeline as incidents of AI-generated CSAM escalate.

Online Child Safety

Propaganda in Autocracies: Institutions, Information, and the Politics of Belief

Using the first global data set of autocratic propaganda, Erin Baggott Carter and Brett Carter examine the intertwined relationship between citizens' beliefs and a the security of a dictator's power.

Propaganda in Autocracies

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Featured Publications

Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures

The Strengths and Weaknesses of the Online Child Safety Ecosystem

Propaganda in Autocracies: Institutions, Information, and the Politics of Belief

Report: State Strengthening in Afghanistan

Adult child migration and elderly parental health in rural China

Internationalizing Higher Education in Korea: Challenges and Opportunities in Comparative Perspective

How to build NERC CIP compliance: a new course by the SANS Institute

How the Mexican Drug War Affects Kids and Schools? Evidence on Effects and Mechanisms

Private Provision of Social Insurance: Drug-Specific Price Elasticities and Cost Sharing in Medicare Part D

Who Drops Out From Primary Schools in China? Evidence From Minority-Concentrated Rural Areas

The Pivot before the Pivot: U.S. Strategy to Preserve the Power Balance in Asia

Educational Expectations and Dropout Behavior among Junior High Students in Rural China

Implementation of Teacher Training in China and Its Policy Implications

Do Weberian Bureaucracies Lead to Markets or Vice Versa? A Coevolutionary Approach to Development

Effect of Parental Migration on the Academic Performance of Left-behind Children in Northwestern China

Order Matters: The Effect of Second-Wave Migration on Student Academic Performance in Northwest China

Can Social-Emotional Learning Reduce Dropout in Developing Countries?

Can Social–Emotional Learning Reduce School Dropout in Developing Countries?

Implementation of Teacher Training in China and Its Policy Implications

Economic Fairness and America’s Presidential Election

To Board or Not to Board: Evidence from Nutrition, Health and Education Outcomes of Students in Rural China

Maternal Health Services in China’s Western Rural Areas: Uptake and Correlates

This Brave New World: India, China, and the United States

Effects of Parental Migration on Mental Health of Left-Behind Children: Evidence from Northwestern China

Pragmatic Engagement: A National Security Strategy for the Next President

Teamwork and Moral Hazard: Evidence from the Emergency Department

Abstinence Funding Was Not Associated with Reductions in HIV Risk Behavior in Sub-Saharan Africa

Choosing China: Ghana's $3 Billion Loan Decision