Hélene Landemore’s Open Democracy challenges today’s democracies to meet their legitimacy deficits by opening up a wide array of…
Has the US Supreme Court become more conservative than the public? We introduce results of three surveys conducted over the course of a…
Scholars of descriptive representation have paid growing attention to the issue of class. This article contributes to this line of research…
Committee formation in early American legislatures happened when those assemblies were inundated with petitions, a relationship unexamined…
A segment of the American population has long embraced conspiratorial thinking. False beliefs about moon landings or space aliens may seem…
How do judges’ previous professional experiences affect case outcomes? In this short article, we investigate the question by documenting…
Since the Founding, Supreme Court Justices have enjoyed life tenure. This helps insulate the Justices from political pressures, but it also…
In this paper, we argue that WhatsApp can play an important role in correcting misinformation. We show how specific WhatsApp affordances (…
Legislative leaders tend to be ideologically more extreme than their median members. Why? This paper shows that party members select…
“Digital government” is becoming simply “government.” As a result, an ever-increasing number of systems and processes critical to the…