American Political Science Review

Reconceiving Immigration Politics: Walter Benjamin, Violence, and Labor

Reconceiving Immigration Politics: Walter Benjamin, Violence, and Labor By Inés Valdez, Ohio State University This article theorizes the circulation of violence in the realms of immigration and labor. Through Walter Benjamin, I conceptualize the relationship […]

American Political Science Review

Race and Representation in Campaign Finance

Race and Representation in Campaign Finance By Jacob M. Grumbach, University of Washington and Alexander Sahn, University of California Racial inequality in voter turnout is well-documented, but we know less about racial inequality in campaign […]

American Political Science Review

A Formal Theory of Democratic Deliberation

A Formal Theory of Democratic Deliberation By Hun Chung, Waseda University and John Duggan, University of Rochester Inspired by impossibility theorems of social choice theory, many democratic theorists have argued that aggregative forms of democracy cannot […]

American Political Science Review

Noisy Retrospection: The Effect of Party Control on Policy Outcomes

Noisy Retrospection: The Effect of Party Control on Policy Outcomes By Adam M. Dynes, Brigham Young University and John B. Holbein, University of Virginia Retrospective voting is vital for democracy. But, are the objective performance […]

Civic Education

Will The Pandemic Weaken The Union To The Point Of Collapse?

Over the past 20 years, I’ve taught thousands of students a particular narrative about how the US government formed—American colonists established mechanisms in the Constitution to help them solve significant collective action problems. It’s worth remembering that American government under the Constitution […]