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Protests and Repression in New Democracies

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: […]

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Political Liberalism: Political, not Philosophical

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 […]

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What Should We Mean by “Pattern of Political Violence”?

What Should We Mean by “Pattern of Political Violence”? Repertoire, Targeting, Frequency, and Technique by Francisco Gutiérrez-Sanín,  Universidad Nacional de Colombia, and Elisabeth Jean Wood, Yale University  To leverage the full range of observed variation in patterns of violence […]

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Left Pessimism and Political Science

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 […]

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Rhetorical Adaptation and Resistance to International Norms

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. […]