290 | Hahrie Han on Making Multicultural Democracy Work
It’s a wonder democracy works at all — a collection of people with potentially different interests have to agree to […]
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287 | Jean-Paul Faguet on Institutions and the Legacy of History
One common feature of complex systems is sensitive dependence on initial conditions: a small change in how systems begin evolving
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269 | Sahar Heydari Fard on Complexity, Justice, and Social Dynamics
When it comes to social change, two questions immediately present themselves: What kind of change do we want to see
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250 | Brendan Nyhan on Navigating The Information Ecosystem
The modern world inundates us with both information and misinformation. What are the forces that conspire to make misinformation so
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217 | Margaret Levi on Moral Political Economy
Why do people voluntarily hand over authority to a government? Under what conditions should they do so? These questions are
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199 | Elizabeth Cohen on Time and Other Political Values
Time is everywhere, pervading each aspect of intellectual inquiry — from physics to philosophy to biology to psychology, and all
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189 | Brian Klaas on Power and the Temptation of Corruption
All societies grant more power to some citizens, and there is always a temptation to use that power for the
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187 | Andrew Leigh on the Politics of Looming Disasters
photo by Hilary Wardhaugh We’re pretty well-calibrated when it comes to dealing with common, everyday-level setbacks. But our brains aren’t
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151 | Jordan Ellenberg on the Mathematics of Political Boundaries
Any system in which politicians represent geographical districts with boundaries chosen by the politicians themselves is vulnerable to gerrymandering: carving
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148 | Henry Farrell on Democracy as a Problem-Solving Mechanism
Democracy posits the radical idea that political power and legitimacy should ultimately be found in all of the people, rather
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