My other projects include the campus human rights index, which ranks all major universities in the US in terms of their commitment to and practice of human rights; the contours of human rights advocacy, which features big data analysis of press releases of major human rights NGOs; and populism and the future of democracy, which examines the causes and consequences of populism in the contemporary world. In all these projects, the core theme continues to be how ideas shape social, political action, and I adopt a mixed-methods approach to understand both the macro trend and actual mechanisms at work.