Good to Know: Issue importance in politics
Here's how voters’ priorities matter.
In Europe, former presidents do get sentenced to prison.
It might shock Americans, but convicting political leaders is neither a democratic disaster nor democracy's salvation.
Mainstream conservative parties paved the way for far-right nationalism
By talking up ethnic nationalism but not delivering, they opened up space for the radical right
Europe’s democracies are in trouble. To understand why, look to the past.
Building stable democracies is a slow and painful process.
What France’s ‘yellow vests’ protests say about Emmanuel Macron
Hundreds of thousands of French people have turned out in
Behind the ‘boring’ German election are four deeply disturbing trends
The consensus throughout the German election campaign was that this
Some argue that the West should limit democracy to save liberalism. Here’s why they’re wrong.
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Want to know if the Trump administration will lurch into radicalism? Don’t look at Trump.
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Europe’s traditional left is in a death spiral. Even if you don’t like the left, this is a problem.
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Post-Brexit, the U.K. is in its worst political crisis since 1940
On June 23, 2016, Britain voted to leave the European
European powers forced artificial borders on more places than the Middle East.
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This is why the current euro zone plan for Greece is going to fail
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Institutions and Politics
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Review, Gary Herrigel’s Manufacturing Possibilities
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Connecting Past and Present: Germany’s Search for a New Success Story
As Mark Twain once observed, "The trouble with the world
Seminar: What’s The Deal With Deutschland? The European Consequences of Changes in Germany’s Political Economy
Over the next few days, we will be publishing a