Book abstract: Canada and the United States are consistently ranked among the most democratic countries in the world, yet voices expressing…
In the final week of the 1980 presidential campaign between Democratic President Jimmy Carter and Republican nominee Ronald Reagan, the two…
Leading US Democrats and former White House insiders Elaine C. Kamarck and Robert B. Reich break down the US presidential election and the…
There are Tiger Moms and Helicopter Moms and French Moms, and all sorts of labels to measure our adequacies as parents. But these moms have…
Predicting a presidential candidate’s choice of running mate is a risky business. It is one of the few campaign decisions that is made…
On 3 September 2008, the Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin made “community organizing” part of mainstream political…
Indeed, if we were drafting a constitution today, few people would even consider a presidential electoral system like the
In a…
The 2012 election campaign—for Congress as well as the presidency—promises to be bitterly fought, even nasty. Leaders of both major parties…
Compromise is difficult, but governing a democracy without compromise is impossible. Anyone who doubts either the difficulty or the…
We show that isolated capital cities are robustly associated with greater levels of corruption across US states. In particular, this is the…