Ep. 46 - Dr. Daniel Carpenter on Democracy by Petition

Dr. Daniel Carpenter is the Allie S. Freed Professor of Government at Harvard University, as well as the Faculty Director of the Social Sciences at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. He’s one of the world’s leading experts on regulation and bureaucracy, with much of his work focusing on the application of historical, theoretical, and mathematical approaches to analyze the development of political institutions, public bureaucracies, and petitioning systems in North America. His latest book is Democracy by Petition: Popular Politics in Transformation, 1790–1870.