Jake Grumbach

Jake Grumbach is Associate Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a contributing editor at Boston Review. He is author of Laboratories Against Democracy: How National Parties Transformed State Politics.

Democrats can’t simply react to polls. They must lead.

Adam Bonica and Jake Grumbach reply to their critics.

  • Adam Bonica
  • Jake Grumbach

How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism

Moderation used to help Democrats win, but its advantages now have been greatly exaggerated.

  • Adam Bonica
  • Jake Grumbach
with responses from
  • Cori Bush
  • Amanda Litman
  • Matthew Yglesias
  • G. Elliott Morris
  • Julia Serano
  • Eric Rauchway
  • Suzanne Mettler & Trevor E. Brown
  • Thomas Ferguson
  • Timothy Shenk
  • Jared Abbott & Milan Loewer
  • Jenifer Fernandez Ancona
  • Lily Geismer
  • Danielle Wiggins
  • William A. Galston
  • Henry Burke

Democracy v. the Constitution

An interview with Osita Nwanevu about his new book, The Right of the People, and why defeating authoritarianism requires going back to democratic basics.

  • Osita Nwanevu
  • Jake Grumbach

The Deep Structure of Democratic Crisis

The real source of the threat to American democracy.

  • Jake Grumbach
  • Ruth Berins Collier
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