Professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, alongside Lucan A. Way of the University of Toronto, have published an article entitled “The Price of American Authoritarianism.” The trio examine the withering away of American democracy and the “competitive authoritarianism” taking its place. Warning against fatalism, they also explore how recent changes are reversible and how opponents to the…
Marcel Roman co-published a research article in the American Political Science Association (APSA). The paper uses a Fickle Prosocial Violence Response Model to explain how indirect exposure to civilian-perpetrated violence against marginalized minority groups motivates prosocial attitudes toward victimized groups. Although the mass public may not sympathize with marginalized groups, they may adopt prosocial attitudes toward…
American Journal of Political Science (AJPS) published an article by Assistant Professor Mashail Malik. Using research from Karachi, Pakistan, Malik examines why voters remain loyal to ethnic parties when they receive minimal material improvements. Why do voters often remain loyal to ethnic parties despite receiving little in terms of material welfare? I develop a theory…
Jordan Ecker has published a chapter about Thomas Paine from his dissertation, “The Politics of Natural Society,” which he is currently turning into a book manuscript, in the journal American Political Thought. This article offers an interpretation of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense read through its theory of natural society. It argues that Paine’s politics in…
Andrew O’Donohue, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government, has co-published an article in the National Academy of Sciences’ journal PNAS Nexus. The paper examines how prosecutions of political leaders affect public opinion by studying Trump’s criminal prosecution. Criminal prosecutions of political leaders have become salient election issues in the United States and globally, yet…
In this compelling dialogue, two of the world’s most influential thinkers reflect on the value of equality and debate what citizens and governments should do to narrow the gaps that separate us. Ranging across economics, philosophy, history, and current affairs, Thomas Piketty and Michael Sandel consider how far we have come in achieving greater equality….
Cambridge University Press published an article by Gov professor Stephen Ansolabehere and Yale Assistant Professor of Political Science, and Gov Ph.D. holder, Shiro Kuriwaki, which analyzes public opinion on multitudinous issues and how Congress succeeds or fails in representing the majority. The aspiration of representative democracy is that the legislature will make decisions that reflect…
Marcel Roman has co-published a research article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The paper uses survey data from late adolescents to suggest that police officers are not merely occupationally socialized, but right-leaning from the start. One longstanding explanation for bias and excessive force in policing is selection—the assertion that those who select to…
In May, The Atlantic shared an article by Andrew O’Donohue, discussing the administration’s legal strategy and the pattern of democratic backsliding globally. “Donald Trump’s attacks on the courts lack recent precedent in the United States, but they follow a clear pattern seen in backsliding democracies around the world. In many countries, when political leaders challenge…
The New York Times recently published an article by Gov faculty Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt, and Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto, Lucan Way, asking how will Americans know when we have lost our democracy? “Authoritarianism is harder to recognize than it used to be. Most 21st-century autocrats are elected. Rather than violently…
