The purpose of this thesis is to defend Athenian democracy against a long-established suspicion that the Athenian government, with its radical form of popular participation, was not only incompetent but also dangerous. There are two serious misunderstandings in this traditional …
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C.L.R. James (1901-1989), native of Trinidad, is perhaps the most libertarian revolutionary thinker of both the Pan-African and international labor movements in the twentieth century. Best known as the author of The Black Jacobins (1938), the classic account of Toussaint L'Ouver…
The dissertation compiles a series of essays which describes effects of various institutional variations randomized across a sample of 500 villages in Afghanistan in 2007. The first essay examines the institutional effects of the creation of democratically-elected, gender-balanc…