Explanations of Institutional Change: Reflecting on a “Missing Diagonal” By Johannes Gerschewski, WZB Berlin Social Science Center Previous research on institutional change has concentrated on two types of explanations. On one hand, the dualism of […]
Learn by doing: A bill passage simulation for Intro to American Politics students by Renée Van Vechten, University of Redlands Why lecture when your students can practice to learn? Realizing that lecturing alone is the […]
Qingming Huang is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Florida. His research interests include ethnicity and nationalism, state building, authoritarian politics, and communism and post-communism. His dissertation examines how […]
Emigrant Inclusion in Home Country Elections: Theory and Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa By Elizabeth Iams Wellman, Williams College and University of the Witwatersrand Since 1990, nearly 100 countries extended voting rights to citizens living abroad, […]
Electoral Accountability and Particularistic Legislation: Evidence from an Electoral Reform in Mexico By Lucia Motolinia, New York University Being able to hold politicians accountable is the hallmark of democracy, and central to this is the […]
The Dirksen Congressional Center invites applications for grants to fund research on congressional leadership and the U.S. Congress. The Center, named for the late Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen R-IL), is a private, nonpartisan, nonprofit […]
The 2020 Election was unprecedented in its challenges, candidates, and levels of voter participation. Political scientists have played an invaluable role in providing context, facts, and a rich analysis and understanding throughout the campaign and […]
Democracy and Depression: A Cross-National Study of Depressive Symptoms and Nonparticipation By Claudia Landwehr, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and Christopher Ojeda, University of Tennessee Depression is the most common mental health disorder. It has consequences […]
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