The political world, prone to cynicism, shouldn't accept the routinization of shutdown politics as a new normal. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.

Habits involve regular, cue-triggered routines. In a field experiment, we tested whether incentivizing exercise routines—paying participants each time they visit the gym within a planned, daily ...

The noted sociologist of religion, Max Weber (1864-1920), himself no stranger to the oddities of institutional behavior and the vagaries of institutional personality, was fascinated by the religious ...

What’s all the shootin’ for? -- George Michael Cohan, The Tavern It was one of nine mass shootings that occurred that week. It might have surprised some ...

There is no better description of the defining trait of our times than what one writer has dubbed "the routinization of tragedy". Everywhere around us, we are confronted by family misfortunes ...

Instead, regions with high initial exposures to routinization and offshoring experienced so-far larger increases in participation, likely driven by an added second worker effect. Series: Working Paper ...

The statistics are in for 2003: There were 3,838 terror attacks against Israeli targets ? a drop of 30% from 5,301 in 2002; and 213 Israelis were killed in these ...