On Revolutions, co-authored by six prominent scholars of revolutions, reinvigorates revolutionary studies for the twenty-first century.…
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…
Kathryn Sikkink (* 1955) is a political scientist who has contributed considerably to making human rights a field of research. Born into a…
Purpose: Demolishing abandoned buildings has been found to reduce nearby firearm violence. However, these effects might vary within cities…
Since the Founding, Supreme Court Justices have enjoyed life tenure. This helps insulate the Justices from political pressures, but it also…
The ability to exercise leadership effectively requires skills and capacities that must be developed; they are not innate. Leadership is…
In this paper, we argue that WhatsApp can play an important role in correcting misinformation. We show how specific WhatsApp affordances (…
Legislative leaders tend to be ideologically more extreme than their median members. Why? This paper shows that party members select…