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  • 9 Mar 2020
    John B. Holbein, D. Sunshine Hillygus

    Why Many Young People Don’t Vote – And How to Fix That

    Voter turnout among young Americans has been dismal since 18-year-olds earned the right to vote with the passage of the 26th amendment in 1971. Even in 2018—a high water mark for youth voting—a full 7 in 10 voters failed to turn out. In most Presidential and Midterm elections it’s not uncommon to see older voters […]

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  • 20 Feb 2020
    Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha, Paul M. Collins Jr.

    Are Trump’s Tweets Unpresidential? – Often Yes, but Sometimes No

    Paul M. Collins, Jr. & Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha, authors of "The President and the Supreme Court" on Donald Trump's tweets.

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  • 14 Nov 2019
    Matt Grossmann

    Did Conservatives Transform State Education Policy?

    2020 Democratic presidential candidates are attacking charter schools, education vouchers, and test-score-based teacher accountability schemes, even backtracking on their past support. Following other issue debates, education positions are polarizing along partisan and ideological lines. But unlike other areas, education polarization follows a long national move rightward—as many states increased alternatives to traditional public schools and […]

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  • 22 Jul 2019
    Byron E. Shafer, Regina L. Wagner

    Polarization and the Fight over Party Structure

    Debates over party structure and party organization have been long-running throughout American political history. Starting with Andrew Jackson and his reforms of the party system, later joined by the Progressive movement and its battle against machine politics, there has been a persistent struggle, a war if you want, over party organization and the associated leverage […]

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  • 2 May 2019
    Susan Stokes, S. Erdem Aytaç

    “Why Bother?”: An Introduction

    Changes in the levels of political participation can alter the course of history. If turnout had been higher among young British voters in the 2016 European Union membership referendum, the United Kingdom might have decided to remain in the EU. If a wave of protests had not taken off in Kiev in the winter of […]

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  • 25 Mar 2019
    Fatemah Alzubairi

    The Rise of Authoritarianism under the Presidency of Trump

    Fatemah Alzubairi discusses her new book Colonialism, Neo-Colonialism, and Anti-Terrorism Law in the Arab World.

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  • 3 Jul 2018
    Bill Ong Hing

    Deportation and the Trump Administration

    The outcry over the Trump Administration’s policy of separating migrant children from their parents has been overwhelming. The widespread criticism led to the President’s executive order halting the separation. However, the damage has been done to the emotional and physical well-being of the more than 2,500 children who were separated prior to the order. On […]

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  • 6 Mar 2018
    S.I. Strong

    Combating Religious Extremism: A New Approach

    S.I Strong, author of Transforming Religious Liberties, discusses new ways of combating religious extremism.

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