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Nonunitary Parties, Government Formation, and Gamson’s Law

Nonunitary Parties, Government Formation, and Gamson’s Law By Gary W. Cox, Stanford University Following the coalition literature highlighting intraparty politics (e.g., Giannetti and Benoit 2009; Laver 1999; Strøm 2003), I address the well-known “portfolio allocation […]

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Does the Meeting Style Matter? The Effects of Exposure to Participatory and Deliberative School Board Meetings

Does the Meeting Style Matter? The Effects of Exposure to Participatory and Deliberative School Board Meetings By Jonathan E. Collins, Brown University Would public meetings incite more civic engagement if they were structured in ways […]

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Counter-Majoritarian Democracy: Persistent Minorities, Federalism, and the Power of Numbers

Counter-Majoritarian Democracy: Persistent Minorities, Federalism, and the Power of Numbers By Arash Abizadeh, McGill University The majoritarian conception of democracy implies that counter-majoritarian institutions such as federalism—and even representative institutions—are derogations from democracy. The majoritarian […]

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APSA: Home for the Political Science Community

APSA is Home to the Political Science Community The American Political Science Association (APSA) brings together political scientists from all fields of inquiry, regions, and occupational endeavors within and outside academe to deepen our understanding […]

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Cooperative Capacities of the Rational: Revising Rawls’s Account of Prudential Reasoning

Cooperative Capacities of the Rational: Revising Rawls’s Account of Prudential Reasoning By Jacqueline Basu, Stanford University John Rawls characterizes political rationality as narrowly self-regarding and therefore incapable of motivating political other-regard, self-moderation, or cooperative behavior. […]

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Constitutional Reform and the Gender Diversification of Peak Courts

Constitutional Reform and the Gender Diversification of Peak Courts By Nancy Arrington, California Polytechnic State University, Leeann Bass, Princeton University, Adam Glynn, Emory University, Jeffrey K. Staton, Emory University, Brian Delgado , Emory University and […]