, common, Islamic or customary law — is a strong predictor of whether a constitution will have economic and social rights and …

One of the biggest problems with modern democracy is that most of the public is usually ignorant about politics and … evaluate what they do know. Democracy and Political Ignorance mines the depths of public ignorance in America and reveals it as … a major challenge for democracy. It weighs various potential solutions, concluding that political ignorance is best …

structures of medieval Europe, but this explanation has been replaced by arguments favoring state capacity. Here we revitalize … the ‘polycentric Europe' hypothesis and argue it is a complement to state capacity explanations. We develop a new …