Can Democracy Be Saved?: Participation, Deliberation and Social Movements
A review of Donatella della Porta's Can Democracy Be Saved?: Participation, Deliberation and Social Movements.
Research
The Political Legacy of American Slavery
We show that contemporary differences in political attitudes across counties in the American South trace their origins to slavery’s prevalence more than 150 years ago.
When Ideas Trump Interests: Preferences, World Views, and Policy Innovations
Ideas are strangely absent from modern models of political economy.
Election 2014: Surge or Theft?
How dark money and voter disenfranchisement combined in a toxic brew that resulted in the lowest voter turnout in more than 70 years, hampering whatever chance Democrats had to win.
The New Civic Politics: Civic Theory and Practice for the Future
What does it mean to put the civic idea at the center of one's concerns in this way? And what is its connection to citizenship? What, finally, is the relevant meaning of citizenship?
Why Hasn’t ‘Big Data’ Saved Democracy?
In his new book, The Big Disconnect: Why the Internet Hasn’t Transformed Politics (Yet), Personal Democracy Forum founder Micah Sifry asks a very good question: what ever happened to the prediction th
Measuring Electoral Integrity Around the World: A New Dataset
Many contentious elections end in disputes about alleged fraud, irregularities, and malpractices. How do we know when these claims are valid and when they are false complaints from sore losers?
Can the U.S. Afford Another $3 Trillion War?
After piling up trillions of dollars of war debt during the last decade, America seemed to be on the brink of a new era -- ready to shut off the Iraq-Afghanistan funding faucet, bring its troops home
The People Want the Fall of the Regime”: Schooling, Political Protest, and the Economy
We provide evidence that economic circumstances are a key intermediating variable for understanding the relationship between schooling and political protest.
Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age
Why, despite massive public concern, is child trafficking on the rise?
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