False consensus effects create a distorted view of social agreement. While we might expect growing awareness to reduce this ...

Those are among the changes now in effect for the city’s Democracy Fund, a pioneering municipal program that began in 2007 and attempts to limit the influence of special interests and encourage more ...

Led by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar’s Democracy Fund, petitioners pledged to reverse existing boom-and-bust dynamics where money floods politically engaged nonprofits late into election years ...