American Political Science Review

Democracy at Work: Moving Beyond Elections to Improve Well-Being

Democracy at Work: Moving Beyond Elections to Improve Well-Being by Michael Touchtonm, University of Miami; Natasha Borges, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee & Brian Wampler, Boise State University How does democracy work to improve well-being? In this paper, we disentangle the component parts […]

American Political Science Review

State Development, Parity, and International Conflict

State Development, Parity, and International Conflict by Douglas M. Gibler, University of Alabama This article explains the relationship between state capabilities and international conflict as a consequence of how, when, and where states enter the international […]

American Political Science Review

The Architecture of Political Spaces: Trolls, Digital Media, and Deweyan Democracy

The Architecture of Political Spaces: Trolls, Digital Media, and Deweyan Democracy by Jennifer Forestal, Stockton University The problem of trolls exemplifies the challenges of building democratic communities in the digital environment of social media. Distinguishing trolls from […]

American Political Science Review

Voter Registration Costs and Disenfranchisement: Experimental Evidence from France

Voter Registration Costs and Disenfranchisement: Experimental Evidence from France by Céline Braconnier, Sciences Po Saint-Germain-University of Cergy-Pontoise, Jean-Yves Dormagen, Université de Montpellier & Vincent Pons, Harvard Business School A large-scale randomized experiment conducted during the 2012 French presidential and parliamentary […]

APSA

A Hitchhiker’s Guide to “Democracy in America”

A Hitchhiker’s Guide to “Democracy in America” by Craig Douglas Albert, Augusta University One of the most challenging issues any instructor of political philosophy faces is how to get college students interested and engaged in […]

American Political Science Review

The Crisis of Party Democracy, Cognitive Mobilization, and the Case for Making Parties More Deliberative

The Crisis of Party Democracy, Cognitive Mobilization, and the Case for Making Parties More Deliberative by Carlo Invernizzi-Accetti, City College of the City University of New York & FabioWolkenstein, Goethe University Frankfurt This paper develops a normative proposal for addressing […]

American Political Science Review

Faulty Foundings and Failed Reformers in Machiavelli’s Florentine Histories

Faulty Foundings and Failed Reformers in Machiavelli’s Florentine Histories by John P. McCormick, University of Chicago This essay argues against prevailing scholarly trends that the *Florentine Histories* continues to delineate the ways through which Niccolò Machiavelli, […]