Police attitudes toward civilians shape everyday interactions, enforcement behavior, and public trust. Dotan Haim, Matthew Nanes, and Nico Ravanilla study whether deliberate contact through community policing changes how officers view and relate to the communities they serve—an understudied counterpart to the large literature on citizens' responses to community policing.
Religious sects and strict denominations are growing faster and retaining members better than mainstream faiths. This study asks: can a sect compel all members to "vote as one" and deliver a full slate of endorsed national candidates? The evidence shows a strikingly large effect.
This paper asks whether a town‑hall style, deliberative campaign—where candidates discuss platforms with small groups of citizens—causally affects voting in a congressional election. Using a randomized experiment run with two national parties in the Philippines, the authors estimate whether active, discussion‑based outreach changes parties' vote shares relative to standard, passive campaign approaches.