When the COVID-19 pandemic arrived on the scene, the near-universal imposition of lockdowns and public health restrictions prompted many…
Governments need rules, institutions, and processes to translate the will of the people into functioning democracies. Election laws are the…
Many topics social scientists study are sensitive in nature. Although we know some people may be reluctant to respond to sensitive…
Does Alexis de Tocqueville—the author of the nineteenth-century classic Democracy in America—still matter? Why should any of us today pay…
What are the downstream political consequences of state activity explicitly targeting an ethnic minority group? This question is well…
Last week’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade, ending the right to an abortion in the US, allowed many Red states to adopt some of the most…
There is increasing optimism that the worst of the pandemic may be behind us. Whether the Omicron variants were the last major spikes of…
A pandemic, like other disasters, changes how systems work. In order to support research on how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the dynamics…
What impact do mass civil society groups have on public policy? We study this issue by analyzing opposition to national prohibition by…
Representing and Being Represented in Turn’ - A Symposium on Hélène Landemore’s Open Democracy
Hélene Landemore’s Open Democracy challenges today’s democracies to meet their legitimacy deficits by opening up a wide array of…