Political Science
The crisis of futurity within contemporary democratic politics
Why resistance to following orders occurs at individual, unit, institutional levels
Has the moral arc of international politics bent backward?
New research into voters, party-aligned interest groups, and policymaking highlight the Dem’s shifting priorities.
In his most recent book, The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time (Penguin, Sept. 2023), Yascha Mounk provides the most ambitious and comprehensive account to date of the origins, consequences, and limitations of so-called “wokeness.” He is the first to show how postmodernism, postcolonialism, and critical race theory forged the…
Michael W. Doyle explores what the Rawlsian standards actually are and whether Rawlsian “liberal peoples” actually exist.
Gráinne de Búrca traces how two recent ideological developments aim to reconfigure the international human-rights order into an illiberal rights regime.
In this lecture, Alma Steingart investigates how changing computational practices insinuated themselves into the most basic definitions of “fairness” in the American electorate in the twentieth century.
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In this lecture, Michael J. Abramowitz discusses why protecting democracy and combating authoritarianism must be a shared responsibility.
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