Representing and Being Represented in Turn’ - A Symposium on Hélène Landemore’s Open Democracy
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…
An overwhelming majority of Americans agree that rights are essential to their freedom, and that rights today are severely threatened. The…
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…
Direct Democracy or Representative Government? 1 The title of this classic work promises a comparison between two seemingly independent…
Studies that examine the impacts of state policies on voter participation tend to focus on one of five stages: eligibility, registration,…