Corruption always grabs the headlines and the processes of political contention that created the modern state have done much to shape our…
Political compromise is difficult in American democracy even though no one doubts it is necessary. It is difficult for many reasons,…
Book abstract: Secularization traces the decline of religion and the rise of secular belief systems. But it also touches on the transition…
This article argues that the greater efforts made by Deliberative Polling to insure relative fidelity to the goal of a random sample make…
Unique among nations, America is deeply religious, religiously diverse, and remarkably tolerant. But in recent decades the nation's…
This article addresses a gap in the literature connecting the empirical
observation of a democratic peace to a theoretical mechanism…
How Americans absorb news—in this case, news about a war involving Americans—turns out to have a lot to do with what they believe before…
Most philosophical explorations of responsibility discuss the topic solely in terms of metaphysics and the "free will" problem. By contrast…