Social Science Research Council
Key Issues and Cases in Developing Transnational Digital Futures
For the final installment of MediaWell’s video essay series on transnational digital governance, researcher and lawyer Camila Tsuzuki explains the background of the key legal cases currently shapin...
The decisions that govern the Internet can seem out of the hands of the people that use it, shaped instead almost entirely by governments and large tech corporations. But how can civil society help...
As part of MediaWell’s video essay series on transnational digital governance, tech governance scholar Swati Srivastava (Purdue University) explores the uncertainties of what she calls a “new era o...
For his second video essay in MediaWell’s series on transnational digital governance, law and technology expert Dr. Ivar Hartmann (Insper, Brazil) highlights key issues for U.S. media and civil soc...
As part of MediaWell's video essay series on transnational digital governance, law and technology expert Ivar Hartmann (Insper, Brazil) outlines some of the topics dominating the field’s attention ...
As part of MediaWell's video essay series on transnational digital governance, researcher Robert Gorwa describes the issues and challenges that he believes will define the next five years — in part...
Globalization, Trade and Labor, and the Distribution of Wealth and Resources in Japan and the United States
Recent elections in the United States, Japan, and Europe have shown public dissatisfacti...
Since 2021, over 120 researchers in the Social Science Research Council’s Mercury Project consortium have been working around the world to identify cost-effective and scalable interventions that bu...
May 23, 2024 | Amid complex global challenges, 2024 is a pivotal year for religion and democracies. Religious nationalism is on the rise in many parts of the world while democracy—as a political fo...
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. EDT
Location: Online Zoom Webinar
This webinar explored the intersection of religion, gender, and populism in contemporary political and social land...
This book critically examines the approaches to Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) of ex-combatants programming in Africa.
Drawing on empirical evidence from across the continent,...
The report leading to the creation of the SSRC in 1923 outlined several major challenges for social science: data collection, interpretation, measurement, and causality. This lecture will explore t...
Over the last few decades, we have seen significant progress in improving school enrollment around the world. Yet, the translation of higher enrollment into improved learning outcomes has been disa...
Solutions to many of today’s key development challenges hinge not on creating new technologies and solutions, but in understanding why the poor do not adopt seemingly beneficial technologies that a...
A lecture by Edward Miguel, University of California, Berkeley
It has been challenging to establish how health investments in childhood affect individuals' life trajectories, especially in low- an...
Geo Dynamics of Northeast Asia - with Japanese subtitles.
Courtesy of the Abe Program.
A lecture by Leah Boustan, Princeton University
Immigrants to the US today move up the economic ladder and engage in cultural assimilation at the same pace as immigrants during the Ellis Island ge...
A lecture by Laura Wherry, New York University
Expanded access to healthcare in the United States through the nation’s public health insurance program, Medicaid, has led to meaningful–and measurab...
A lecture by Conrad Miller, University of California, Berkeley
US employers are segregated by race, which likely contributes to racial inequalities in earnings. While the composition of an employe...