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 […]
Nominations are open for the inaugural APSA Community College Faculty Award! The award recognizes excellence in teaching, mentoring, community engagement, governance, and/or research by a community college faculty member in the profession and carries a […]
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 […]
Theoretical Foundations and Empirical Evaluations of Partisan Fairness in District-Based Democracies By Jonathan N. Katz, California Institute of Technology, Gary King, Harvard University and Elizabeth Rosenblatt, Harvard University We clarify the theoretical foundations of partisan fairness […]
Self-Rule and the Problem of Peoplehood in Colonial India By Nazmul S. Sultan, University of Chicago This article theorizes the colonial problem of peoplehood that Indian anticolonial thinkers grappled with in their attempts to conceptualize […]
What Is Spontaneous Order? By Daniel Luban, University College, Oxford Due especially to the work of Friedrich Hayek, “spontaneous order” has become an influential concept in social theory. It seeks to explain how human practices […]
Populism’s Threat to Democracy: Comparative Lessons for the United States By Kurt Weyland, University of Texas at Austin How grave is the threat that populist leaders pose to democracy? To elucidate the prospects of the United […]
Plato’s Myth of Er and the Reconfiguration of Nature By Tae-Yeoun Keum, University of Oxford Why did Plato conclude the Republic, arguably his most celebrated work of political theory, with the Myth of Er, an obscure […]
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