Elections

Learning from Obama’s Campaign

Han and McKenna have written a history of the Obama campaign in which the candidate himself has little more than a cameo.

  • Andrew Mayersohn

Money Is Not the Only (or the Biggest) Source of Voter Distrust

Rates of participation in politics are still at or near historic lows after decades of skyrocketing campaign spending.

  • Andrew Mayersohn

The Rise of Outside Spending

The "independent" expenditures in the midterm elections are record-breaking 

  • Andrew Mayersohn

A Better Nation

Scotland’s independence referendum is a contest between the head and the heart, between love and money.

  • Stephen Phelan

Righting the GOP

On Rick Perlstein’s The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan

  • Mark Schmitt

Tell Narendra Modi: Human Development is More than GDP

  • Martha C. Nussbaum

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Does Big Data Threaten Political Inequality?

A response to Archon Fung and Anthony Fowler.

  • Andrew Mayersohn

Is Get-Out-the-Vote Bad for Democracy?

How efforts to increase voter turnout exacerbate inequality.

  • Anthony Fowler

Democracy in South Africa

After twenty years of electoral dominance by the African National Congress, are South African politics finally becoming competitive?

  • Tim Cohen

The Landscape of Campaign Finance Reform

Lawrence Lessig walked across New Hampshire to put campaign finance reform back on the national agenda.

  • Andrew Mayersohn

Do Game Changers Matter?

Political science and political reporting.

  • Lynn Vavreck

Can Greece’s SYRIZA Change Europe’s Economy?

The biggest threat to Greece’s left-wing coalition is itself.

  • Yanis Varoufakis

Defrosting the Cold War with Iran

What will it take to revive U.S.-Iran relations?

  • Akbar Ganji

Making Elections Fairer

An Interview with Archon Fung

  • David V. Johnson

Choose Your Choice

The Great American Obsession with Choices

  • Claude S. Fischer

Reclaiming Politics

Solving Problems Washington Won’t

  • Michael Gecan

Sizing Up the Race

Stephen Ansolabehere on the Election

  • David V. Johnson
  • Stephen Ansolabehere

Undoing the Wrack

Without campaign finance reform it is difficult to see how America’s problems can even be addressed, much less dealt with.

  • Gore Vidal

Know Where You Stand

How Informing the Voters Helps the Democrats

  • Anthony Fowler
  • Michele Margolis

The Past is not Past

Why We Still Need Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act

  • Jonathan Brater

Messin’ with Texas

The Legal Wrangle over Redistricting

  • Samuel Issacharoff

A Better Deal

Obama’s State of the Union Announces Populist Re-election Bid

  • David Biespiel

State of the Nation: The Brown Majority

Most of the demographic change in America today comes not from waves of new immigration, but from the echoes of past migration.

  • Stephen Ansolabehere

The Return of States’ Rights

Rick Perry and the Right's Counterrevolutionary Revolution

  • Tom Barry
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