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Women in politics are everywhere. Vice President Kamala Harris quickly emerged as the Democratic nominee when Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race in Summer 2024. Republican Nikki Haley was the last candidate standing to challenge Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination that same year. Nancy Pelosi served as Speaker of the House […]
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Japan is a democracy, yet electoral competition is utterly dominated by a single party. For sixty-six of the past seventy years, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has controlled Japan’s government. Since its formation in 1955, the LDP has failed to win a plurality of seats only once. In every other election to Japan’s most powerful […]
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Members of Congress play a critical role in shaping policy on a vast array of complex issues — from climate change to healthcare, national security to agriculture. Yet, they are not experts in these fields. Instead, they rely on external sources of information to guide their legislative decisions. But who provides this information, and how […]
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In the past two decades, African governments have transformed their financial relationships – in the process gaining leverage in foreign relations in ways many would not expect. At the dawn of the 2000s, African countries relied almost entirely on traditional donors like the World Bank and the US for external funding. Over the next decades, […]
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How do landowners protect their interests in contemporary democracies? Classic social science studies have argued that landowners’ economic interests are incompatible with democracy, as democratization should lead to the increasing taxation or even expropriation of their assets in response to redistributive demands from the poor. However, agrarian elites and democracy have coexisted in Latin America […]
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Ethnicity is everywhere. From the delights of ‘ethnic cuisine’ to the grim realities of ‘ethnic cleansing’, this concept helps us make sense of the world around us. In many countries, including the United Kingdom, it has become commonplace for population censuses and diversity monitoring forms to ask for the ethnic identity of the respondent. And […]
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Imagine a deluge of scholarly works, all describing the symptoms of a disease—but offering no discussion of the deep-rooted factors that caused the outbreak. In recent years, as democracies have faced the growing phenomena of “Hollow Democracy” caused by democratic backsliding and rising populism, many scholars have devoted considerable effort to describing both the symptoms […]
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It’s a cliché that Britain’s power as a nation is linked to the English language, so much so that prime minister Theresa May assured the public that Brexit would be a success because “our language is the language of the world” and Boris Johnson complained that there were “too many people in our cities who […]
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Women in politics are everywhere. Vice President Kamala Harris quickly emerged as the Democratic nominee when Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race in Summer 2024. Republican Nikki Haley was the last candidate standing to challenge Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination that same year. Nancy Pelosi served as Speaker of the House […]
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Japan is a democracy, yet electoral competition is utterly dominated by a single party. For sixty-six of the past seventy years, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has controlled Japan’s government. Since its formation in 1955, the LDP has failed to win a plurality of seats only once. In every other election to Japan’s most powerful […]
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Members of Congress play a critical role in shaping policy on a vast array of complex issues — from climate change to healthcare, national security to agriculture. Yet, they are not experts in these fields. Instead, they rely on external sources of information to guide their legislative decisions. But who provides this information, and how […]
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In the past two decades, African governments have transformed their financial relationships – in the process gaining leverage in foreign relations in ways many would not expect. At the dawn of the 2000s, African countries relied almost entirely on traditional donors like the World Bank and the US for external funding. Over the next decades, […]
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How do landowners protect their interests in contemporary democracies? Classic social science studies have argued that landowners’ economic interests are incompatible with democracy, as democratization should lead to the increasing taxation or even expropriation of their assets in response to redistributive demands from the poor. However, agrarian elites and democracy have coexisted in Latin America […]
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Ethnicity is everywhere. From the delights of ‘ethnic cuisine’ to the grim realities of ‘ethnic cleansing’, this concept helps us make sense of the world around us. In many countries, including the United Kingdom, it has become commonplace for population censuses and diversity monitoring forms to ask for the ethnic identity of the respondent. And […]
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Imagine a deluge of scholarly works, all describing the symptoms of a disease—but offering no discussion of the deep-rooted factors that caused the outbreak. In recent years, as democracies have faced the growing phenomena of “Hollow Democracy” caused by democratic backsliding and rising populism, many scholars have devoted considerable effort to describing both the symptoms […]
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It’s a cliché that Britain’s power as a nation is linked to the English language, so much so that prime minister Theresa May assured the public that Brexit would be a success because “our language is the language of the world” and Boris Johnson complained that there were “too many people in our cities who […]
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James A. McCann is Professor of Political Science at Purdue University, where he has taught courses on American politics since 1991.
Walter J. Stone is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at University of California, Davis.
Julian Cribb FRSA FTSE is an Australian author and science communicator.
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Anxious Politics
Anxious Politics
Narcissism and Politics
African American Religions, 1500–2000
Independent Politics
Independent Politics
The Foundations of Deliberative Democracy
American Gridlock
Confronting the Internet\\\'s Dark Side
The Politics of Parliamentary Debate
The Politics of Parliamentary Debate
Abortion Politics, Mass Media, and Social Movements in America
The Taming of Democracy Assistance
Climate Change: A Wicked Problem
Climate Change, Capitalism and Corporations
Climate Change, Capitalism and Corporations
Truth or Truthiness
In Defense of Pluralism
Latin America Confronts the United States
The Mortality and Morality of Nations
Psychology of the Digital Age
India and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime
Dr. Fiona Kate Barlow is a social psychologist specialising in the study of race relations.
Counter Realignment
Beyond the Law
Competitive Authoritarianism
Moral Dilemmas of Modern War
The Normal Personality
Nuclear Weapons
Why We Disagree About Climate Change
Benign Bigotry
Democracy and Moral Conflict
Becoming A Candidate
Abortion Politics in Congress
Abortion Politics in Congress
Srebrenica in the Aftermath of Genocide
Antisemitism and the American Far Left
Health Care for Us All
After Bush
After Bush
Darfur and the Crime of Genocide
Darfur and the Crime of Genocide
Susan Aaronson
Constitutional Illusions and Anchoring Truths
The Mind of Jihad
On Scandal
U.S. Energy Policy and the Pursuit of Failure
Principled Negotiation and Mediation in the International Arena
I Was Wrong
A Government Out of Sight
The New White Nationalism in America
Law\'s Allure
The Legitimacy Puzzle in Latin America
The Legitimacy Puzzle in Latin America
Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics
Sexual Politics in Modern Iran
The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global
A History of Modern Israel
Making a New Deal
Political Moderation in America\\\'s First Two Centuries
The Deepening Darkness
Patriarchal Religion, Sexuality, and Gender
Srebrenica in the Aftermath of Genocide
Genocide and the Europeans
The Political Economy of the American Frontier
The Resurgence of the Radical Right in France
Future Imperfect
Arms and the University
A Nation of Immigrants
Justice Denied
The American Mission and the \\\\\\\'Evil Empire\\\\\\\'
The Tea Party
The International Diplomacy of Israel’s Founders
Tested by Zion
Does Your Family Make You Smarter?
Power and the People
Congress and the Politics of Problem Solving
Congress and the Politics of Problem Solving
Stephen A. Douglas and Antebellum Democracy
Developing Countries in the GATT Legal System
The First French Reformation
The Fascists and the Jews of Italy
The International Distribution of News
State Strategies in International Bargaining
Globalization and Mass Politics
Trade Cooperation
Popular Governance of Post-Conflict Reconstruction
Caricaturing Culture in India: Cartoons and History in the Modern World
Reinventing the Left in the Global South
Human Rights in International Relations
Anarchy and Legal Order
Declaring War
Antarctica - Global Science from a Frozen Continent
The Cambridge Companion to Nelson Mandela
Political Ideologies and Political Parties in America
No Exit from Pakistan
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