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  • 12 May 2026
    Cover of Lawmaking under Authoritarianism
    Alejandro Bonvecchi, Emilia Simison

    Legislating with the autocrat?

    In March 1979, the government of dictator General Jorge Rafael Videla, submitted a law proposal to overhaul Argentina’s revenue-sharing regime. Following the rules of this regime, the bill was duly presented to the Legislative Advisory Commission, a legislative body created by the dictatorship and staffed by military officers. The provincial governors, who were also appointed […]

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  • 23 Mar 2026
    Cover of Shared Morals
    Jae-Hee Jung

    Morality and Political Communication

    Political arguments often appeal to fundamental moral intuitions about right and wrong. Politicians highlight the moral basis of their views and positions. For example, in the context of the recent U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran, Senator Steve Daines explicitly appealed to morals in his post on X saying that he “support[s] President Trump’s actions […]

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  • 3 Dec 2025
    Kate Baldwin

    Church and Liberal Democratic Institutions in Africa

    Let me describe the activities of an organization leading advocacy for liberal democracy in Zambia in recent years. When politicians spoke of changing the country’s constitution to end presidential term limits, it organized a civil society coalition to protest. When the police threw the opposition leader in jail for four months on charges of treason, […]

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  • 26 Nov 2025
    Lucia Motolinia

    Why Did Mexico’s Reelection Experiment End So Quickly? My New Book Offers an Answer

    On March 4, Mexico took a remarkable step backward: Congress approved a new electoral reform that will, once again, ban consecutive reelection for all elected officials starting in 2030, with the stated goal of “preventing political entrenchment and nepotism.” After only a few election cycles with reelection, with the original ban on consecutive reelection just […]

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  • 7 Oct 2025
    Ryan Lloyd, Gabriel Vommaro, André Borges

    The Recasting of the Latin American Right: Polarization and Conservative Reactions

    The past ten years have been surprising, to say the least, for observers of the Latin American right. There was a time where the left was the star of the show in the region; in the 2000s and 2010s, leaders of the “Pink Tide,” such as Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Evo Morales, and Michelle […]

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  • 11 Aug 2025
    Illustrated cover of Building Social Mobility featuring different people living in an apartment building
    Tanu Kumar

    Building Social Mobility Through Housing

    Making housing affordable is now a top priority for countries and subnational governments around the world. While much of the debate appears to be happening in countries like the United States and United Kingdom, low- and middle-income countries have been pursuing policies to make housing accessible for decades. What do these policies look like, what […]

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  • 13 Feb 2025
    Belén Fernández Milmanda

    Agrarian Elites’ Representation, Democracy and Inequality in Latin America

    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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  • 14 Aug 2024
    Aditi Malik

    Playing with Fire: Parties and Political Violence in Kenya and India

    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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