In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, democracy in the Arab world seems farther away today than at any point in the last 25 years, leaving…
What a difference two months make. When the Republican Party scored strong gains in last November’s US congressional elections, the…
In this paper, we ask whether personal relationships can affect the way that judges decide cases. To do so, we leverage the natural…
As with any high fashion, the beauty and horror of
“big data” 1 is in the eye of the beholder. The question
that prompted the present…
New types of and approaches to data are enabling new forms of data-intensive political science, some of which in isolation appear to…
“Party System Institutionalization: Reflections Based on the Asian Cases.” In Allen Hicken and Erik Martinez Kuhonta, eds., Party System…
The American judiciary has increasingly come under attack as polarized
and politicized. Using a newly collected dataset that captures the…
We propose a new method to measure persuasion within small groups, and apply this method to a large scale randomized deliberative…
A review of Donatella della Porta's Can Democracy Be Saved?: Participation, Deliberation and Social Movements.