Two MIT economists were among those awarded the Nobel Prize in economics Monday for their decades of work illuminating the relationship between political institutions and economic prosperity.

While a majority of people express a commitment to most of our social and political institutions and the democratic form of governance enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, there are those who relish ...

The left and right don’t agree on much, but many on both sides do agree on one thing: the system is broken. Over the past decade, anti-system political movements have surged, from Brexit in 2015 to ...

Last month, the 2024 Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to three scholars, Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson, for “studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.” ...

In post-conflict nations, political speech is never neutral—it shapes trust, legitimacy, and the relationship between ...

Historian Frank Andre Guridy illustrated that the American stadium is not just a venue for sporting events, but also a political institution and community space in a talk Monday night. The Columbia ...

Political science is the systematic study of political institutions, actors, and power dynamics across local, national, and international arenas. As a discipline, it combines theoretical frameworks ...

A new working paper from Nobel laureate James A. Robinson finds a vast landscape of 45,000 polities—deliberately fragmented to protect local autonomy Pre-colonial African societies have long been seen ...

Proliferating wars and shaky alliances are hallmarks of today’s brutal new political reality, one that would have been ...