A perfect storm of contemporary events has triggered deep angst about American democracy. Long-standing concern was exacerbated during the…
Jean Blondel made many lasting contributions toward comparative politics, not least in his classification of party systems in Western…
The ‘Big Lie’ in American politics has sparked intense concern about the erosion of public confidence in the integrity of US elections—…
Following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the grounds behind Vladimir Putin’s decision were widely debated.…
Feminist agenda-setting through transnational institutions has contributed to a shift in global norms concerning the political…
A culture of trust is usually claimed to have many public benefits--by lubricating markets, managing organizations, legitimating…
The structure of opportunities for citizen activism in democratic or autocratic regime diverge sharply, such as in freedom of expression,…
The last fifteen years have witnessed a "democratic recession." Democracies previously thought to be well-established--Hungary, Poland,…
Governments need rules, institutions, and processes to translate the will of the people into functioning democracies. Election laws are the…
Does Alexis de Tocqueville—the author of the nineteenth-century classic Democracy in America—still matter? Why should any of us today pay…