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Social Origins of Dictatorships: Elite Networks and Political Transitions in Haiti By Suresh Naidu, Columbia University, James A. Robinson, University of Chicago and Lauren E. Young, University of California, Davis Existing theories of democratic reversals […]

Playing to the Gallery: Emotive Rhetoric in Parliaments By Moritz Osnabrügge, Durham University, Sara B. Hobolt, London School of Economics and Political Science and Toni Rodon, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Research has shown that emotions matter […]

Partisan Polarization Is the Primary Psychological Motivation behind Political Fake News Sharing on Twitter By Mathias Osmundsen, Alexander Bor, Peter Bjerregaard Vahlstrup, Anja Bechmann, Michael Bang Petersen, Aarhus University The rise of “fake news” is […]

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 […]

How to Read James Fitzjames Stephen: Technocracy and Pluralism in a Misunderstood Victorian By Gregory Conti, Princeton University This paper offers a new reading of the political thought of the mid-Victorian jurist and intellectual James […]

Gender and Party Discipline: Evidence from Africa’s Emerging Party Systems By Amanda Clayton, Vanderbilt University and Pär Zetterberg, Uppsala University Are men and women legislators equally loyal to their parties? We theorize that parties select […]

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 […]

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 […]