Petitioners’ assertion of power to forgive every federal student loan in the country, potentially even a decade after the COVID-19 pandemic ends, raises significant separation of powers concerns. The power of the purse is one of Congress’s most potent checks against the executive branch, yet...

The “anti-canon” of constitutional law is an underappreciated constraint on judicial discretion. Some past decisions are so reviled that no judge can issue analogous rulings today, without suffering massive damage to his or her reputation. This article argues for expanding the anti-canon,...

Despite various anti-corruption policies in place, the public service provision in most developing countries remains mired in corruption. In this chapter, we argue that a successful fight against corruption requires a thorough understanding of the processes involved in the provision of public...

The literature remains divided on the impact of governance on migration. This paper aims to contribute to this debate by examining the effect of corruption, along with other governance qualities, on brain drain using data from 130 countries. To address the issue of endogeneity, we utilize a...

This paper recounts how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) struggled during the COVID-19 pandemic at executing its core public health mission of readiness and response. The paper then evaluates the current state of the agency’s workforce and organizational culture, noting a...

In this work, we analyse the obstacles that prevent education systems from thriving and innovating disruptively. We provide evidence-based on Estonia, South Korea, the United Kingdom, France, the United States and Spain. The study's results suggest that the inefficiencies and relative stagnation...

Sextortion, the sexual exploitation by people in positions of power of those subject to that power, is common around the world and fits the standard definition of corruption - the abuse of public power for private gain. Sextortion disproportionately affects women and vulnerable groups. Thus, it...

Institutional constraints to counter potential abuses in the use of political power have been viewed as essential to well functioning political institutions and good public policy outcomes in the Western World since the time of ancient Greece. A sophisticated intellectual tradition emerged to...

In an unprecedented global crisis, like the COVID-19 pandemic, when vertical global governance plays a relatively minor role, government leaders must obtain policy information cues from other governments’ behaviors horizontally. This study builds on the policy diffusion literature to examine...

A large literature details the causes and consequences of incarceration. This study evaluates the role of economic freedom in this context using US Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) data from 1977 to 2017. To do so, we implement economic freedom scores at the MSA level derived from Stansel...