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Toxic Speech and Limited Demand for Content Moderation on Social Media By Franziska Pradel, Technical University of Munich; Jan Zilinsky, Technical University of Munich; Spyros Kosmidis, University of Oxford; Yannis Theocharis, Technical University of Munich. When […]

Social Media, Social Control, and the Politics of Public Shaming By Jennifer Forestal, Loyola University Chicago. While there is disagreement over the value of public shaming, scholars largely agree that social media introduce pathologies. But while […]

Selecting for Masculinity: Women’s Under-Representation in the Republican Party By Christopher F. Karpowitz, Brigham Young University; J. Quin Monson, Brigham Young University; Jessica R. Preece, Brigham Young University; Alejandra Aldridge, Brigham Young University. The gap between […]

Reawakening a Revolutionary Party: The Ancient and Modern Princes in Wang Hui’s Political Theory By Simon Sihang Luo, Stanford University. Recent political theory has seen a revived interest in theorizing the political party, and, in particular, […]

My History or Our History? Historical Revisionism and Entitlement to Lead By Nicholas Haas, Aarhus University; Emmy Lindstam, IE University. Ongoing, spirited debates from around the globe over statues, street names, symbols, and textbooks call for […]

Moving toward the Median: Compulsory Voting and Political Polarization By Alexandra Oprea, University at Buffalo, Lucy Martin, University of North, Carolina at Chapel Hill, Geoffrey H. Brennan, Australian National University Should turning out to vote […]

Meritocracy as Authoritarian Co-Optation: Political Selection and Upward Mobility in China By Hanzhang Liu, Pitzer College. Why does an authoritarian regime adopt meritocracy in its political selection? I argue that meritocracy can be used to co-opt […]