Tag: democracy

Unions and Global Democracy

By Erik Loomis

In General

On July 22, 2022

Two interconnected things are happening globally. First, democracy is under attack from right-wing forces. Second, unions are under attack from the same right-wing forces plus a lot of neoliberal centrist types who don’t value them. Unions are absolutely vital for a functioning democracy. As the only organizations that have represented workers’ desires with a capitalist […]

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Taking Facts for Granted

By Dan Nexon

On February 9, 2022

I think it’s fair to say that ‘the establishment’ treated Trump with smug cluelessness in 2016. I’m not sure why, but the thing I most associate with this attitude is the mocke

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Liberal international order, yet again

By Dan Nexon

On July 22, 2021

A recent episode of bloggingheads.tv features John Ikenberry and Patrick Porter. They discuss the Biden administration, liberal international order, and the “Rooseveltian Internationalism”

Hong Kong

By Dan Nexon

In china , General

On July 6, 2020

We haven’t blogged much about Hong Kong recently. The news, as readers probably now, has been pretty grim. On June 30, Beijing enacted a National Security Law that, in effect, ended any guarantee of Hong Kong’s separate political system. And today, the other shoe dropped. Hong Kong police will be authorised to conduct searches at […]

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“The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government….”

By Dan Nexon

On July 1, 2018

I put a poll up on Twitter with the aim of provoking some discussion. If the United States dissolved tomorrow, leaving 50 independent states, how many would qualify as “fully” or “mostly” demo

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Democracy’s Fragility

By Erik Loomis

On January 30, 2018

This story on a few racist teenagers creating havoc at Texas universities by spreading white supremacist propaganda reminds me of a point I have known for a long time: that democracy is incredibly fra

Yes, Trump is a Threat to Liberal Democracy. And You Should be Worried.

By Dan Nexon

In General

On August 13, 2017

On Friday, the The New York Times published an opinion piece by Samuel Moyn and David Priestland entitled “Trump isn’t a Threat to Our Democracy. Hysteria Is.” The article has been generating a fair amount of chatter in my social-media circles. I find the piece kind of odd. Over on the Twitters, Yascha Mounk argues […]

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Celebrate #TowelDay With The Lizard Democracy PoliSci Fable

By Christa Blackmon

On May 25, 2017

Its May 25th, you hoopy froods! The day we celebrate British author Douglas Adams and his magnum opus Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Likely everyone will be talking about the importance of

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Always Check the Dataset

By Dan Nexon

On January 2, 2017

A while ago I used a story about the relative score of North Carolina on “Electoral Integrity” to frame a piece about democratic backsliding. I spend a lot of time looking at datasets, so

Democratic Backsliding in the USA

By Dan Nexon

In General

On December 23, 2016

In the United States, Political Science is conventionally divided into four major subfields: American Politics, Comparative Politics, International Relations, and Political Theory. These divisions lack strong intellectual justification. They are largely a matter of convention, historical accident, and training. Indeed, members of the latter three subfields sometimes like to snark that American Politics is just a glorified single-country study. Imagine […]

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Lessons from Turkey

By Dan Nexon

On December 1, 2016

Over at my other digs, Kindred Winecoff is running a series called “World Politics in a Time of Populist Nationalism” (which, unfortunately, he’s decided requires an acronym). They

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