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Tag: Democracy

Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation is a sham, but it is one the Constitution allows. There’s only one way out of this crisis: we must amend.

Julie C. Suk
Donald Trump's winning strategy.
Joshua Cohen, Reed Hundt

The government—not the market—is the only viable solution to some of our greatest challenges.

Steven Vogel, Neil Fligstein
Rejecting market fundamentalism, Rethinking Political Economy will provide space for advancing alternatives—in theory, politics, and policy—to the neoliberalism of the last forty years.
Boston Review

Thailand has been gripped by the largest wave of protest in years, forcing a reckoning between the country’s dual structures of democracy and monarchy.

Peera Songkünnatham

Talk of American freedom has long been connected to the presumed right of whites to dominate everyone else.

Jefferson Cowie
Some gender equality initiatives help to reinforce exclusion rather than dismantle it.
Milli Lake, Marie E. Berry
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
While economists enshrine Hong Kong as the ideal free market, the social consequences of its neoliberal policies have been disastrous.
Macabe Keliher

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

Justin H. Vassallo

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

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

Judith Butler’s ‘The Force of Nonviolence’ advocates for pacifism but neglects much of the tradition’s philosophy and feminist theory.

Alexander Livingston

We need to rebalance power away from executives and back to legislatures.

Hanna Lerner, Aslı U. Bâli

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

Magda Konieczna
Five policies we need now.
Felicia Wong

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

Mark Tushnet

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If women’s suffrage was the battle of the twentieth century, women’s representation will be the battle of the twenty-first.

Jennifer M. Piscopo

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

Ashutosh Varshney

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

Jan-Werner Müller
Joshua Cohen, Deborah Chasman
Huge investors like BlackRock are forcing corporations to take action on emissions. But what does their power mean for democracy?
Madison Condon

The dramatic history of Guatemala’s National Police archive illustrates the crucial role of state archives in protecting democracy.

Kirsten Weld

Not by repudiating democracy but by simulating it, a new book argues.

William E. Scheuerman

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