Research & publications

Research & publications

From journal articles to policy briefs, Munk School faculty and researchers are producing leading edge research across multiple disciplines. Use the filters below to select articles by format, topic and affiliation and access the latest research and publications.

Research

Format

Topic / Geography

Affiliation

Ontario 360

ON360 – The 2023 Ontario Budget: Strategic, Economic and Fiscal Policy Considerations

By Brian Lewis

Changing World Order

The Journal of Politics

Inaccurate Politicians: Elected Representatives’ Estimations of Public Opinion in Four Countries

By Peter Loewen

Future of Democratic Societies

Citizen Lab

You Move, They Follow: Uncovering Iran’s Mobile Legal Intercept System

By Gary Miller, Noura Al-Jizawi, Ksenia Ermoshina, Marcus Michaelsen, Zoe Panday, Genny Plumptre, Adam Senft & Ron Deibert

Sociology of Education

Global Determinants of Education Reform, 1960 to 2017

By Rie Kijima, Patricia Bromley, Jared Furuta, Heitor Santos, Lisa Overbey & Minju Choi

Future of Democratic Societies

Japanese Journal of Political Science

Japan: the harbinger state

By Phillip Lipscy

Changing World Order

Ethics & International Affairs

Solidarity in Place? Hope and Despair in Postpandemic Membership

By Ayelet Shachar

Changing World Order

Citizen Lab

Mass Iris Scan Collection in Qinghai, 2019–2022

By Emile Dirks

Citizen Lab

The Autocrat in your iPhone: How Mercenary Spyware Threatens Democracy

By Ron Deibert

Urban Policy Lab

The Municipal Role in Public Health

By Katherine Fierlbeck & Gaynor Watson-Creed

Citizen Lab

Minding Your Business: A Critical Analysis of the Collection of De-identified Mobility Data and Its Use Under Socially Beneficial and Legitimate Business Exemptions in Canadian Privacy Law

By Amanda Cutinha and Christopher Parsons

Gender Policy Report

The Intersections of Disability, Gender, Race, and Economic Precarity

By David Pettinicchio & Michelle Lee Maroto

Future of Democratic Societies

Territory, Politics, Governance

Urban governance and civic capital: analysis of an evolving concept

By David A. Wolfe

Political Economy of Innovation

Global Justice Lab

Violent crime and public prosecution: A review of recent data on homicide, robbery, and progressive prosecution in the United States (2022 Report)

By Todd Foglesong, Ron Levi et al.

Global Justice Lab

Violent crime and public prosecution (2022 Report)

By Todd Foglesong & Ron Levi

Citizen Lab

Cybersecurity Will Not Thrive in Darkness: A Critical Analysis of Proposed Amendments in Bill C-26 to the Telecommunications Act

By Christopher Parsons

Science

Why nations lead or lag in energy transitions

By Phillip Lipscy et. al.

Changing World Order

Citizen Lab

New Pegasus Spyware Abuses Identified in Mexico

By John Scott-Railton, Bill Marczak, Bahr Abdul Razzak, Siena Anstis, Paolo Nigro Herrero & Ron Deibert

Ethnic and Racial Studies

Do Natives Prefer White Immigrants? Evidence from Japan

By Nicholas A. R. Fraser & John W. Cheng

Changing World Order

Issues & Studies: A Social Science Quarterly on China, Taiwan, and East Asian Affairs

Strengthening the State through Crisis Management: Battles against the SARS and COVID-19 Pandemics in China

By Lynette Ong

Changing World Order

Princeton University Press

Making democracy with autocrats: East Asia’s past, China’s future?

By Joseph Wong

Changing World Order

Citizen Lab

Mass DNA Collection in the Tibet Autonomous Region from 2016–2022

By Emile Dirks

Changing World Order

Princeton University Press

From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia

By Joseph Wong

Future of Democratic Societies

PEARL

Do Students Want Vaccine Mandates?

By Thomas Bergeron, Blake Lee-Whiting & Peter Loewen

Changing World Order

Princeton University

Slavery and the British Industrial Revolution

By Stephan Heblich