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Democracy

Gender & Sexuality, Global Justice

When Quotas Come Up Short

Some gender equality initiatives help to reinforce exclusion rather than dismantle it.

Marie E. Berry, Milli Lake

Law & Justice, Politics

American Democracy Is in the Mail

U.S. democracy and the U.S. postal service share a long, entangled history. An attack against one signals an attack against the other.

Daniel Carpenter

Global Justice

Neoliberal Hong Kong Is Our Future, Too

While economists enshrine Hong Kong as the ideal free market, the social consequences of its neoliberal policies have been disastrous.

Macabe Keliher

Politics

What Can Elections Do?

Without pressure from social movements, they won’t produce meaningful and deeply needed reform.

Justin H. Vassallo

Class & Inequality

Six Labor Policies We Need Now

Workers deserve substantive policy reforms that point the way to a better future, especially in this year of unprecedented crisis.

Erin L. Kelly, Emilio J. Castilla, Thomas A. Kochan, Barbara Dyer, Paul Osterman, Nathan Wilmers

Politics

Inventing Nonviolence

Judith Butler’s ‘The Force of Nonviolence’ advocates for pacifism but neglects much of the tradition’s philosophy and feminist theory. Is it possible to merge Butler’s insights with a serious concern for how nonviolent politics can be effective?

Alexander Livingston

Politics

Power to the Parliaments

The COVID-19 crisis presents a unique and urgent opportunity to rebalance power away from executives and back to legislatures.

Aslı U. Bâli, Hanna Lerner

Politics

Why We Need Public Journalism

Quality news is essential for democracy. We must stage an intervention to save it.

Magda Konieczna

Politics

The Policy Bedrock of a True New Deal

Five policies we need now.

Felicia Wong

Law & Justice

Our Broken Constitution

Constitutional crisis won’t be fixed by a few isolated reforms. We need to rethink the Constitution from the ground up.

Mark Tushnet

Law & Justice

What We Can Learn From India's Improbable Democracy

Though Modi's government draws concern today, the country's constitutional history suggests a framework for creating democracy in unlikely settings. 

Ashutosh Varshney

Politics

Democracy for Losers

Some candidates who lose elections strengthen democracy, but others threaten the democratic system itself.

Jan-Werner Müller

       

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