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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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Policy Briefs

For wind and solar, big is (usually) better

Energy for Growth Hub, 2019

Journal Articles

Using Community Health Workers to Deliver a Scalable Integrated Parenting Program in Rural China: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial

Social Science & Medicine, 2019

Working Papers

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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

For wind and solar, big is (usually) better

Using Community Health Workers to Deliver a Scalable Integrated Parenting Program in Rural China: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial

Can Forward Commodity Markets Improve Short-Term Market Performance? Evidence from Wholesale Electricity

Mind the Gap in Sovereign Debt Markets: The US Treasury basis and the Dollar Risk Factor

Measuring Time Preferences in Large Surveys

Concurrent Validity of the Ages and Stages Questionnaire and the Bayley Scales of Infant Development III in China

Comparing America: Reflections on Democracy across Subfields

Why Villages Succeed or Fail in Preventing Fires in West Kalimantan

Three Constitutional Thickets: Why Regulating Online Violent Extremism is Hard

Facebook Restricts Speech by Popular Demand

Networks of Enlightenment Digital Approaches to the Republic of Letters

How Relevant is the Turing Test in the Age of Sophisbots?

Transformation and Modernization of the Wholesale Electricity Market in Colombia

Standardizing the fee-waiver application increased naturalization rates of low-income immigrants

The west needs a positive response to China’s technology challenge

Behavioral Economics and Nuclear Weapons

The Landscape of Early Childhood Development in Rural China

The Next Director of National Intelligence: A Thankless Job Is Getting Even Harder

Korea’s Migrants: From Homogeneity to Diversity – An Asian Survey Special Section

Skilled Migrants as Human and Social Capital in Korea

Dynamic Anemia Status from Infancy to Preschool-Age: Evidence from Rural China

The Prevalence of Parent-Teacher Interaction in Developing Countries and its Effect on Student Outcomes

Professions of Friendship: Revisiting the Concept of the Political in the Middle East

Knowledge Management for Self-Organised Resource Allocation

CNN Perspective: Our lax cybersecurity policies put our elections and our data at risk