In this paper, I use two new data sets to demonstrate that black federal judges are consistently overturned on appeal more often than…
“Cross-Currents in Latin America.” The Journal of Democracy 26 No. 1 (January 2015): 114-127. (With Aníbal Pérez-Liñán).
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.
A recent survey asks citizens from 30 countries for their views on 10 influential national leaders who have a global impact. There are many…
In this essay, I summarize major points of my Ethics for Enemies. I first consider whether torture of a wrongdoer to save his victim could…
Covering more than four decades of American social and political history, The Loneliness of the Black Republican examines the ideas and…
We show that contemporary differences in political attitudes across counties in
the American South trace their origins to slavery’s…
This paper investigates the role of mass media in times of conflict and state-sponsored
mass violence against civilians. We use a unique…