Lisa L. Miller

Lisa L. Miller is Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University. Her next book, The Myth of Checks and Balances and the American Democratic Deficit, is under contract with University of Chicago Press.

The Dead End of Checks and Balances

Far from the cure to Trumpian authoritarianism, the U.S. constitutional system is driving our democratic decline.

  • Lisa L. Miller
with responses from
  • Eric Blanc
  • Marcus Gadson
  • Gianpaolo Baiocchi
  • Samuel Moyn
  • Aziz Z. Huq
  • Kelly Hayes & Maya Schenwar
  • Lily Geismer

Avoiding despotism must start well before we turn to courts as a last line of defense.

Lisa L. Miller replies to her critics.

  • Lisa L. Miller

Up from Federalism

In the United States, the division of power between state and national government hurts democracy rather than helps it.

  • Lisa L. Miller
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