Cancel Toqueville?
Does Alexis de Tocqueville—the author of the nineteenth-century classic Democracy in America—still matter?
Research
The reversal of reproductive rights in America is contrary to global trends. Why? Compared with similar Western democracies, Republican voters are exceptionally socially conservative, religious and au
Last week’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade, ending the right to an abortion in the US, allowed many Red states to adopt some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world.
Representing and Being Represented in Turn’ - A Symposium on Hélène Landemore’s Open Democracy
Hélene Landemore’s Open Democracy challenges today’s democracies to meet their legitimacy deficits by opening up a wide array of participatory opportunities, from enhanced forms of direct democracy, t
Bottlenecks for Evidence Adoption
Governments increasingly use RCTs to test innovations before scale up. Yet, we know little about whether and how they incorporate the results of the experiments into policy-making.
On Revolutions: Unruly Politics in the Contemporary World
On Revolutions, co-authored by six prominent scholars of revolutions, reinvigorates revolutionary studies for the twenty-first century.
Where you sit is where you stand: education-based descriptive representation and perceptions of democratic quality
Scholars of descriptive representation have paid growing attention to the issue of class.
When Governments Use Nudges: Measuring Impact “At Scale”
The Popular Origins of Legislative Jurisdictions: Petitions and Standing Committee Formation in Colonial Virginia and the Early US House
Committee formation in early American legislatures happened when those assemblies were inundated with petitions, a relationship unexamined in institutional political science.
Designing Supreme Court Term Limits
Since the Founding, Supreme Court Justices have enjoyed life tenure.
Why representative democracy requires referendums
Direct Democracy or Representative Government? 1 The title of this classic work promises a comparison between two seemingly independent forms of government.
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