How do ‘people power’ movements succeed when modest proportions of the population participate? Here we propose that the effects of social…
In expanding its program that lets residents vote on public spending, New York City is enlivening democracy and engaging the electorate.
Do 40-Year-Old Facts Still Matter? Long-Run Effects of Federal Oversight under the Voting Rights Act
In 2013, the Supreme Court struck down parts of the Voting Rights Act that mandated federal oversight of election laws in discriminatory…
In her memoir, Power offers an urgent response to the question "What can one person do?" and a call for a clearer eye, a kinder heart, and…
Whether it is defining Native Americans as non-citizens in 1800 or introducing a “mulatto” category in 1850, the classification of race and…
Monitors report that many elections around the world are flawed by problems of corruption and violence – sometimes both. These malpractices…
“In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the…
“On a winter morning in 1990, Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota picked up the Bismarck Tribune. On the front page, a small girl gazed…
“The received idea of Native American history -- as promulgated by books like Dee Brown’s 1970 mega-bestselling Bury My Heart at Wounded…
Bringing together both classic and contemporary research, The Politics of Terror provides a systematic introduction to the theory, politics…