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What does a tech oligarchy look like?

A recent online event by the Ash Center for Democracy and Governance focused on the increasing global influence of an elite group of wealthy and powerful tech leaders—the tech oligarchy—and the ...
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Venezuela Before Chávez: Anatomy of an Economic Collapse

At the beginning of the twentieth century Venezuela had one of the poorest economies in Latin America, but by 1970 it had become the richest country in the region and one of the twenty richest ...
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The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth

The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth. Amy Edmondson, 2018, Book, "Conquer the most essential adaptation to the knowledge ...
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Protests as Strategic Games: Experimental Evidence from Hong Kong's Anti-Authoritarian Movement

Cantoni, Davide, David Y Yang, Noam Yuchtman and Y Jane Zhang. 2019. Protests as Strategic Games: Experimental Evidence from Hong Kong's Anti-Authoritarian Movement. Quarterly Journal of Economics 134 ...
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

Citation Putnam, Robert D. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, Paperback Edition. Simon & Schuster, 2001.
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Does transparency improve governance?

THE IDEA THAT TRANSPARENCY can make institutions more effective and provide greater accountability and better results for the public seems uncontroversial on the surface. But scholars and officials ...
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Investing in the Unknown and the Unknowable.

From David Ricardo making a fortune buying British government bonds on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo to Warren Buffett selling insurance to the California earthquake authority, the wisest ...
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Building Capacity for Sustainable Development: a virtual seminar series

This series brings together ideas from experts and practical experience to address major problems facing the planet. This six-part series focused on six essential capacities for sustainability: to ...
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Pretrial Detention, Pretrial Release & Public Safety

As a growing number of jurisdictions across the country have attempted to implement bail reforms, debates have intensified about the relationship between such reforms and crime, including and perhaps ...
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She’s Not the Man I Married: My Life with a Transgender Husband

“Helen Boyd’s husband, who had long been open about being a cross-dresser, was considering living as a woman full time. Suddenly, Boyd was confronted with the reality of what it would mean if her ...
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Democracy and the Digital Public Sphere

A healthy democracy requires a deliberative public sphere—an informal space for citizens to gain information and communicate with one another in order to detect problems, bring them to public view, ...
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New York Reentry Study

The New York Reentry Study (NYRS) is a longitudinal panel survey of 25 men and their families in the first year after release from incarceration to New York City. Interviews focus on the topics of ...