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Protests and Repression in New Democracies by S. Erdem Aytaç, Koç University, Luis Schiumerini, University of Oxford, and Susan Stokes, Yale University Elected governments sometimes deal with protests by authorizing the police to use less-lethal tools of repression: […]

Political Liberalism: Political, not Philosophical by Bernard Yack, Brandeis University Political Liberalism (1993) is both the title of John Rawls’s second book and a rallying cry for philosophers, like Martha Nussbaum, who believe that “more than any […]

Disenchanted Professionals: The Politics of Faculty Governance in the Neoliberal Academy by Timothy Kaufman-Osborn, Whitman College The “corporatization” of the academy is often cited as a cause of the “de-professionalization” of the professoriate, and that in turn […]

Left Pessimism and Political Science by Jennifer L. Hochschild,  Harvard University I examine why contemporary social scientists on the political left are relatively pessimistic about the public arena and its trajectory. To develop an answer, I explore […]

Rhetorical Adaptation and Resistance to International Norms by Jennifer M. Dixon, Villanova University Scholarship on states’ responses to international norms has focused on commitment, compliance, and noncompliance; paying insufficient attention to responses that fall outside these categories. […]