Desmond King and Rogers M Smith In our book, Still a House Divided (2011), and set of published papers, we [...]
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Category "Issue 33"
VIEWPOINT: Authoritarian Populism and Parliamentary Democracy in India
Dilip Menon Contemporary populism is usually located in a crisis of parliamentary democracy in which the question of popular sovereignty begins [...]
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ON THE FRONTLINE: Trump and Working Class Distress
Monica Prasad I’ve heard several plausible explanations for Donald Trump’s popularity, including that it all boils down to racism, or that [...]
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POLICY BRIEFING: There is More than One Way to Involve the Public in Policy Decisions
Rikki Dean The Policy Briefing section of Discover Society is provided in collaboration with the journal Policy & Politics. The section is curated [...]
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The Spatial Logic of Racial Inequality
Nina Yancy At the start of this century, the Texan town where I grew up might have been paraded as a [...]
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Race, Violence and the Failure of the American State
Lisa L. Miller It has become fashionable among American liberals to condemn the American state for its great penal experiment that [...]
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Understanding the ‘Paradox’ of the First Black President
Richard Johnson In spite of sanguine predictions made at the beginning of his presidency, Barack Obama’s tenure in the White House [...]
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Racial Inequality and Police Deaths in the US
Alexandra Wilson In 2015, 26.5% of police killings in the United States were of African Americans (The Guardian 2015), despite African Americans [...]
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Re-emerging Racisms: Understanding Hate in Poland
Kasia Narkowicz Assaults on Roma homes, burning an effigy of an Orthodox Jew in a public demonstration and the desecration of [...]
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Poland En Route to Authoritarianism
Grażyna Skąpska It is difficult to write about the crisis of democracy in Poland precisely in the eye of the storm [...]
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