Patronage—the discretionary allocation of public sector jobs—continues to be a dominant way government is staffed in most Latin American…
As countries throughout the world democratize and decentralize, citizen participation in public life should increase. In this paper, I…
The standard explanation of electoral reform is offered by rational choice accounts. These regard the choice of rules as an elite-level…
This article aims to make conceptual room for a view about political legitimacy called the power-liability account. The view claims that…
First Published in Philosophy & Public Affairs 21(1992): 240-274.
The article discusses presidential primary
elections in the United States, their place in the American democracy,
and various ideas for…
This week the US Senate finally started getting around to changing the rules that led to Wall Street’s disastrous meltdown two years ago.…