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Political parties play vital roles in the healthy functioning of democratic regimes. They form the government and the opposition, provide structure to the electoral process, aggregate and channel citizens’ preferences, and promote democratic accountability. Yet, increasing global and comparative evidence suggests that parties are also key protagonists in events of violence around the world. From […]
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Mobilizing Teachers is a book that shows how teachers’ unions have turned into powerful labor organizations that developed different roles in the political arena. Teachers’ unions lie at the juncture of two global changes that are playing out in countries around the world. First, with labor unions in decline (because of changes including automation and […]
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A few weeks ago on May 15, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump agreed to at least two general election debates: one on June 27, 2024 and one on September 10, 2024. The first debate will be hosted by CNN and moderated by Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, with no audience present at […]
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How Islam Rules in Iran questions prevailing assumptions about the Iranian theocracy by demonstrating that the Islamic Republic has deep and continuously evolving ideological and jurisprudential roots. In today’s Iran, the book argues, state-religion relations exhibit three key features. An obvious feature is the deep basis of the state in innovative interpretations of Shia jurisprudence. […]
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Market favoritism has been aggressively supported for more than 50 years by the Right and adopted by many on the Left. The emphasis has been on the priority of markets over government for solution to policy problems and for enhancing political liberties. Our book, How Government Built America, flips the script by arguing the strength […]
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We write this blog knowing the 2024 presidential election will be a rematch of the 2020 contest between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. We are not fully aware, though, how changes in the political landscape from 2020 to 2024 will alter how citizens make decisions at the ballot box. In our book, Choices in a […]
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Beginning in the 1850s, the United States took its first, incautious steps toward developing an overseas empire in the Pacific. In the end, the empire would help defeat Japan during World War II. The bloodiest and most infamous battles of the Pacific War were fought on possessions gained by American imperialists. The first American shots […]
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A century ago, every democratic regime was in Western Europe or in a country settled by Western Europeans. The picture is now more varied. Non-Western countries such as India and Jamaica have been democracies for more than half a century, despite lacking many factors often cited as prerequisites for democracy. But stable democratic experiences are […]
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