The Overloaded State
Follow implementation burden, administrative capacity and a constrained reform into the underlying studies.
Open the activity & research guide →POLITICAL SCIENCE / RESEARCH IN PLAY
Research you
can step into.
Audit a democracy warning. Question an AI’s claim to speak for the public. Follow published research into fictional cases where you decide which explanation holds up.
Four research simulations. Six reading partners. The simulations introduce their sources, with reading guides for a deeper look. Take an investigation across several sittings.
FOLLOW A SUBJECT
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TAKE A POSITION. TEST IT AGAINST THE EVIDENCE.
Research simulations.
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For class, export a readable research brief.
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CONTINUE AN INVESTIGATION
Familiar titles.
More of the research behind them.
Everyone Says Democracy
Compare democratic support, competing understandings of democracy and the consequences of a measurement choice.
Open the activity & research guide →READ CLOSELY. ASK A BETTER QUESTION.
Reading partners.
Guided conversations in ChatGPT or Gemini.
Start with the source. Develop your own interpretation.
State capacity & political economy
After the Headline: The Nigeria File
Join a fictional magazine’s research desk. Connect oil, taxation, public services and political power to investigate why a state can be powerful in some ways and struggle in others.
Reading partner · Gemini · preparation requiredReading, access & a starting question →Teaching a Frontiers inquiry
- Set a reading or an initial simulation endpoint. Read the source-access notes before assigning it.
- Ask students to preserve an initial claim, identify a credible rival and predict a separating observation.
- Compare the later record with the prediction. A changed mind needs reasons; so does retaining the first account.
- Assess the research brief and the limits of the inference. A local record or bot conversation is not an authenticated completion receipt.
Assessment guidance → · Permissions & directory information → · Find your bearings before the case → · Main activity collection →