Taking Sides in Wars of Attrition by Robert Powell, University of California, Berkeley Third parties often have a stake in the outcome of a conflict and can affect that outcome by taking sides. This paper studies […]
Xenophon on the Psychology of Supreme Political Ambition by Lorraine Smith Pangle, University of Texas at Austin This study illuminates Xenophon’s teaching about the underlying psychological motives of the most fully developed political ambition. An analysis […]
Congressional Appropriations and Activities The 114th Congress concluded in December, passing a continuing resolution that will keep funding for agencies in a holding pattern until April 28 and shift the responsibility for a FY 2017 […]
Teaching Students to Engage with Evidence: An Evaluation of Structured Writing and Classroom Discussion Strategies by Steffen Blings, Cornell University & Sarah Maxey, Cornell University In their transition to college, students often struggle to identify and make […]
Demand for Law and the Security of Property Rights: The Case of Post-Soviet Russia by Jordan Gans-Morse, Northwestern University Studies of property rights overwhelmingly focus on whether states expropriate or protect property, overlooking the crucial issue […]
Feyaad Allie graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College with a BA in government in 2016. At Dartmouth, he was a Mellon Mays Associate Fellow and a War and Peace Fellow. He was awarded the […]
A Discussion of Josiah Ober’s The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece by Josiah Ober, Standford University Ancient Greece has long exercised a powerful hold on the imagination of modern political science. But until fairly recently, […]
Vigilance and Confidence: Jeremy Bentham, Publicity, and the Dialectic of Political Trust and Distrust by Jonathan R. Bruno, Harvard University Distrust of public authorities is a mainstay of democratic politics. In recent decades, however, political scientists […]
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