Year: 2025

Liberal Democracy Reexamined: Leo Strauss on Alexis de Tocqueville By Raúl Rodríguez, Michigan State University This article explores Leo Strauss’s thoughts on Alexis de Tocqueville in his 1954 “Natural Right” course transcript. One of the […]

Left Governmental Power and the Reduction of Inequalities in Western Europe (1871–2020) By Vincenzo Emanuele and Federico Trastulli, LUISS Guido Carli Despite considerable attention in the literature, existing studies analyzing the effect of left governmental power […]

Inequality, Redistribution, and the Global Surge in Populism By Anne Wolf, University of Oxford, Kathrin Bachleitner, University of Salzburg and Sarah Bufkin, University of Oxford Economic inequality and redistribution are among the oldest political economy […]

Facing Democratic Challenges: The Role of Civil Society Organizations in the Governance of Genomic Technologies By Federica Frazzetta, University of Catania and Andrea Felicetti, University of Padua The discovery of CRISPR has fuelled the debate […]

Exporting the Tools of Dictatorship: The Politics of China’s Technology Transfers By Erin Baggott Carter and Brett L. Carter, University of Southern California The Chinese government is revolutionizing digital surveillance at home and exporting these […]

Ethnoracial Hierarchies and Democratic Commitments By Jana Morgan and Nathan J. Kelly, University of Tennessee Entrenched ethnoracial hierarchies that persist alongside formal democratic rules threaten commitments to democracy. Previous research has shown how marginalization and oppression […]

Cosmos-Politanism: Transhumanist Visions of Global Order from the First World War to the Digital Age By Duncan Bell, University of Cambridge and Apolline Taillandier, Newnham College Inspired by developments in artificial intelligence, space engineering, and […]