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  • 15 May 2025
    Camilla Mariotto, Fabio Franchino

    Balancing Pressures in Governing the European Economy

    Governing the European economy does not result from decisions taken by national executives acting in isolation. It is the product of a laborious and frequently frustrating coordination effort orchestrated at the continental level. It all began on a cold, yet remarkable, winter day of 7 February 1992, with the signature of the Treaty of Maastricht. […]

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  • 14 May 2025
    George Tsebelis

    INSTITUTIONAL EXTENSIONS OF A REMARKABLE SUPREME COURT DECISION

    On April 10 2025 SCOTUS decided on the case 24A949 Noem vs. Abrego Garcia. Examining the reasoning of a District Court ordering the Government to “facilitate and effectuate the return of [Abrego Garcia] to the United States”. The Court removed the verb “effectuate” from the decision because it does not express “due regard for the […]

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  • 13 May 2025
    Alena Drieschova

    The dynamics of international orders

    In the current moment we are experiencing a profound shift in the international order. Russia militarily attacked Ukraine, a sovereign state, and the emerging attempts at peace negotiations most loudly promote the argument that territories should be distributed between the two states based on effective military control at the moment when the fighting stops. The […]

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  • 6 May 2025
    Yee-Fui Ng

    Robogovt: how should we regulate automated government decision-making?

    Artificial intelligence and machine learning have enabled widespread automation of government decision-making in Western liberal democracies. Yet vulnerable populations have been seriously harmed because of the difficulties they face in challenging automated decisions. In Australia, the social security automated system pejoratively dubbed as “Robodebt” erroneously identified overpayments deemed to be owed by social security beneficiaries. […]

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  • 21 Apr 2025
    Oguzhan Dincer, Michael Johnston

    Fifty Shades of Corruption ?

    Americans hear a lot about corruption these days, with prominent figures claiming (and many citizens agreeing) that our governments suffer major waste, fraud, and abuse. Major changes are taking place, based on that justification, that will affect American society and  much of the world. We do have corruption problems, but not necessarily the ones we […]

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  • 25 Mar 2025
    Richard L. Fox, Jennifer L. Lawless

    The Invincible Gender Gap in Political Ambition

    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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  • 18 Mar 2025
    Amy Catalinac

    Dominance Through Division: Group-Based Clientelism in Japan

    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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  • 17 Feb 2025
    Pamela Ban, Hye Young You, Ju Yeon Park

    How Congress Gathers Information: The Politics Behind Hearings on the Hill

    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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