The Collective-Action Constitution blends law, history, political science, and economics to offer a broad, deep theory of the U.S. Constitution's federal structure. The book argues that the ...

The study conducted by The Collective-Action Constitution offers several lessons. First, when states disagree about the existence or severity of collective-action problems, such problems do not simply ...

Leaders use a mix of new rules, visual aids and incentives to convince residents to protect their homes — and entire ...

This tidbit from the history of railroad safety is also a rejoinder to one of the laziest criticisms of The Anxious Generation, a new book from New York University professor Jonathan Haidt on the ...

Isaac Asimov’s seminal "Foundation" series of novels begin with the psychohistorian Hari Seldon predicting the destruction of the Empire within three centuries. Three centuries seems like a long time.

Climate policy at the subnational level is sometimes framed as being counterproductive, because climate change is considered a collective action problem that can be best addressed in a coalition that ...