The justice cascade refers to a new global trend of holding political leaders criminally accountable for past human rights violations…
Book abstract: How do individual Africans view competitive elections? How do they behave at election time? What are the implications of new…
Can protests cause political change, or are they merely symptoms of underlying shifts in policy preferences? We address this question by…
Professor Burns reflects on recent Supreme Court decisions dealing with voting rights and same-sex marriage.
It might seem that a disaster was averted by the last-minute fiscal-cliff deal. But the wrath of House Republicans has simply moved to a…
Although international relations as a field focuses largely on war and peace between nation-states, the vast majority of conflicts have…