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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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

Close to Home: Place-Based Mobilization in Racialized Contexts By Sally A. Nuamah, Northwestern University and Thomas Ogorzalek, Independent Scholar How do racially concentrated policy changes translate to political action? Using official election returns, the Cooperative […]