This paper examines the impact of decentralization on political corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa. Most of the recent literature finds that decentralization reduces corruption, an outcome which is often attributed to the ability...
Public school board members are often our forgotten representatives. In the United States today, local governance in general has been ignored by many citizens. This is evidenced by the simplest, direct form of political...
The #MeToo movement began in 2006 through the activism of Tarana Burke (MeToo 2018) and gained prominence in October 2017 when actress Alyssa Milano used the hashtag to encourage survivors of sexual violence to “share their...
The number of women in politics in America is not representative of the number of women in the country. That number is even more unrepresentative when breaking it down by different identities, like political party. In this...
I began my research by assuming that public opinion and state Democratic leaders’ positions would have a consistent relationship state-to-state. However, as we will see, there are additional factors within the scope of death...