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How Has the Electoral College Survived for This Long?

As our revived national conversation on race has made clear, the legacies of slavery and white supremacy run wide and deep in American society and political life.

Afterword: Does Deliberative Democracy Have a Role in Our Time of Political Crisis?

Since the first generation of deliberative democratic theory, and the ‘deliberative turn’ in the 1990s, many societies around the world have become more institutionally fragile, multi-dimensionally un

Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?

Every four years, millions of Americans wonder why they choose their presidents through the Electoral College, an arcane institution that permits the loser of the popular vote to become president and

Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia is a mosque again. Do Turkish citizens want Erdogan to restore the caliphate?

This month, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reconsecrated the Hagia Sophia — a UNESCO world heritage site and museum — as a house of Muslim worship.

Review Essay: The Prince

America’s Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity

The Cold War dominated world affairs during the half century following World War II.

The Political Consequences of Ethnically Targeted Incarceration: Evidence from Japanese-American Internment During WWII

What are the downstream political consequences of state activity explicitly targeting a minority group?

Four Levels of Power: A Conception to Enable Liberation

Many public leaders and activists—politicians, advocates, social movement leaders, and even ordinary citizens—seek to alter patterns of asymmetric power in order to achieve liberation from domination.

Measuring Racial Discrimination in Bail Decisions

We develop new quasi-experimental tools to measure racial discrimination, due to either racial bias or statistical discrimination, in the context of bail decisions.

Review of Evaluating Media Bias

Discussions about the media's role in politics have never seemed more important or more necessary.