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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]