The EU’s Enfants Terribles: Democratic Backsliding in Central Europe since 2010 By Elisabeth Bakke, University of Oslo and Nick Sitter, Central European University In the academic literature, Hungary and Poland are often cited as paradigmatic […]
The Diffusion of Urban Medieval Representation: The Dominican Order as an Engine of Regime Change By Jonathan Doucette, Aarhus University How do representative institutions diffuse from one polity to another? I investigate the effect of […]
Lord, Peasant … and Tractor? Agricultural Mechanization, Moore’s Thesis, and the Emergence of Democracy By David J. Samuels, University of Minnesota, and Henry Thomson, Arizona State University Conventional wisdom holds that landed elites oppose democratization. […]
White Protectionism in America By Rogers M. Smith, University of Pennsylvania and Desmond King, University of Oxford Critics charge President Donald Trump with racism, but he insists he opposes bigotry and is an American nationalist, […]
The Strange Fruit of the Tree of Liberty: Lynch Law and Popular Sovereignty in the United States By Michael Gorup, New College of Florida Lynch mobs regularly called on the language of popular sovereignty in […]
The Rights Revolution in the Age of Obama and Ferguson: Policing, the Rule of Law, and the Elusive Quest for Accountability By Lynda G. Dodd, Princeton University Recent political science scholarship examining the institutional features of […]
The Adaptability Paradox: Constitutional Resilience and Principles of Good Government in Twenty-First-Century America By Stephen Skowronek, Yale University and Karen Orren, University of California, Los Angeles Faith in the resilience of the US Constitution prompts […]
Rule by Violence, Rule by Law: Lynching, Jim Crow, and the Continuing Evolution of Voter Suppression in the U.S. By Brad Epperly, University of South Carolina, Christopher Witko, University of South Carolina, Ryan Strickler, Colorado […]
Copyright © 2018 I American Political Science Association
