Journals

The Resilience of Democracy’s Third Wave By Steven Levitsky, Harvard University, and Lucan Way, University of Toronto The literature on democratization has experienced radical mood swings in recent decades, from extreme optimism in the 1990s […]

Three Fallacies Undermining Participatory Constitution Making By Yanina Welp, Albert Hirschman Democracy Centre, Geneva Graduate Institute In recent years, many emerging actors (e.g., new social movements and parties) associate democratic problems with representative institutions. Accordingly, […]

Measuring Democratic Backsliding By Andrew T. Little, University of California, Berkeley, and Anne Meng, University of Virginia Despite the general narrative that the world is in a period of democratic decline, there have been surprisingly […]

The Invincible Gender Gap in Political Ambition By Richard L. Fox, Loyola Marymount University, and Jennifer L. Lawless, University of Virginia When we uncovered a large gender gap in political ambition in the early 2000s, […]