Why are judicial nominees allowed to refuse to answer questions about important issues
that could come before the courts? We address this…
During recent years, U.S. states have often diverged by adopting either more lenient or stricter electoral procedures. What have been the…
Money is essential for electoral politics yet its use and abuse often raises problems of graft, corruption, and cronyism. To throw new…
From the streets of Hong Kong to Ferguson, Missouri, civil disobedience has again become newsworthy. What explains the prevalence and…
The spread of elections to all parts of the globe has been one of the most dramatic developments transforming our world during the…
Political debates matter. They can alter the course of a campaign, propel a candidate or an idea, and provide voters an unfiltered window…
The evidence now seems clear that, once you look beyond roll call votes, Black legislators do a better job than Whites of representing…
The Port Huron Statement was the most important manifesto of the New Left student movement of the 1960s. The essays in this volume—…
Provides a brief conceptual elaboration of the meaning of deliberation, the standards for good deliberation, the concept of a deliberative…