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Behind and Beyond the Return of Religion

Behind and Beyond the Return of Religion by Meirav Jones, University of Pennsylvania The subtitle of Michael Walzer’s monumental first book published in 1965, The Revolution of the Saints, was A Study in the Origins of Radical […]

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Protests and Repression in New Democracies

Protests and Repression in New Democracies by S. Erdem Aytaç, Koç University, Luis Schiumerini, University of Oxford, and Susan Stokes, Yale University Elected governments sometimes deal with protests by authorizing the police to use less-lethal tools of repression: […]

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Meet 2017 RBSI Scholar, Andre Ross

Andre Ross, University of Houston Andre Ross is a student at the University of Houston. After a career in business that spans for over a decade, he is currently majoring in political science with an emphasis […]

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Political Liberalism: Political, not Philosophical

Political Liberalism: Political, not Philosophical by Bernard Yack, Brandeis University Political Liberalism (1993) is both the title of John Rawls’s second book and a rallying cry for philosophers, like Martha Nussbaum, who believe that “more than any […]

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What Should We Mean by “Pattern of Political Violence”?

What Should We Mean by “Pattern of Political Violence”? Repertoire, Targeting, Frequency, and Technique by Francisco Gutiérrez-Sanín,  Universidad Nacional de Colombia, and Elisabeth Jean Wood, Yale University  To leverage the full range of observed variation in patterns of violence […]

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Presidents, Baseball, and Wins above Expectations

Presidents, Baseball, and Wins above Expectations: What Can Sabermetrics Tell Us about Presidential Success?: Why Ronald Reagan is like Bobby Cox and Lyndon Johnson is like Joe Torre by Manuel P. Teodoro, Texas A&M University and Jon […]