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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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The United States is divided over politics, and each major political coalition advances a distinct constitutional vision that aligns with its policy goals. Conservatives interpret the Constitution to protect religion, limit gun control, and obstruct federal administrative governance while allowing state-level regulation of moral questions like abortion. Progressives see a mirror-image constitution that advances social […]
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In a world largely shaped by Silicon Valley tech giants, the BRICS countries—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, now expanding to new members —are emerging as influential players in the realm of digital policy and innovation. With 40% of the world’s population and a quarter of global GDP, the BRICS nations command substantial resources, […]
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“Demagoguery and the decline of democracy” This is the subtitle of my new book with CUP. But it might just as well be a headline on 5 November 2024 when Donald Trump was voted 47th president of the United States. There is wide consensus that his choice of far-right cronies to his government is a […]
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In an era of increasing partisan conflict and ideological division in the U.S. Congress, primaryelections are frequently blamed. In my new book, Party Transformation in CongressionalPrimaries: Faction and Ideology in the Twenty-First Century, I explore how the dynamics ofprimary competition fundamentally changed in recent decades, contributing to the ideologicalpolarization of parties in Congress. Through original […]
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