Rising support for populist parties has disrupted the politics of many Western societies. What explains this phenomenon? Two theories are…
People are regularly asked to report on their likelihoods of carrying out consequential future behaviors, including complying with medical…
MERICS Paper on China No. 1 - “China’s core executive: leadership styles, structures and processes under Xi Jinping” is an essay collection…
This review essay provides an analytical review of the most important works on the evolving nature of the state-society relationship in…
In this paper we argue that the concept of democratic quality consists of two necessary, but independently insufficient, components. The…
Researchers seeking to establish causal relationships frequently control for variables on the purported causal pathway, checking whether…
We present a new measure of judicial ideology based on judicial hiring
behavior. Specifi cally, we utilize the ideology of the law clerks…