Congress and President Trump in an Age of Discontent As polarization and gridlock continue to hold their grip over the U.S. Congress, Americans’ approval of and confidence in their national legislature remain near historic lows. […]
Designing Multi-Method Research (QMMR1) Colin Elman 9:00am – 1:00pm INSTRUCTORS: Kendra Koivu, University of New Mexico (klkoivu@unm.edu), and Jason Seawright, Northwestern University (j-seawright@northwestern.edu) This course provides students with an introduction to research designs that combine […]
Voters or the Market? The Politics of Credibility Since the Great Recession The 2008 global financial and fiscal crisis occurred despite a wide-spread consensus that the rise of technocratic governance and the de-politicization of economic […]
Teaching Erosion of Democracy Recent years have witnessed a deluge of commentary warning of imminent threats to democracy in the US, the West, and the world. This, in turn, has provoked a countervailing deluge […]
Democratic Backsliding in Southeast Asia The democratic back sliding we now see in the west is not new in Southeast Asia. Manipulated elections, press and assembly controls, greater enforcement of lèse majesté laws, weakening public […]
America’s Two Worlds of Welfare: Subnational Institutions and Social Assistance in Metropolitan America by Margaret Weir, Brown University, and Jessica Schirmer, University of California, Berkeley Studies of the “delegated state” highlight the growing role of nongovernmental organizations to fulfill public […]
The Overlooked Challenges of Generalizing About Mechanisms (QMMR4) Colin Elman 1:30 pm – 5:30pm INSTRUCTOR: Derek Beach, University of Aarhus, Denmark (derek@ps.au.dk) How can we generalize within-case findings about processes and causal mechanisms to other, […]
The Effects of Protests in the U.S. The APSA 2018 theme is “Democracy and Its Discontents,” and the past years and months have seen a renewed interest in protests among the general public and the […]
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