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In their American Political Science Review article, Prof. Yang-Yang Zhou and Andrew Shaver investigate a commonly held assumption within academic and policy circles: the presence of refugees in host countries increases the likelihood of domestic conflict.

"It’s kind of the country's worst-kept secret,” said Prof. Gerald Baier. “When you're a minority government, the chance that you can turn that into a majority, even a squeaky majority, is almost too hard to resist.”

Professor Mark Warren co-founded Participedia, an open-access crowdsourcing platform to support the expansion and deepening of democracy.