Political violence is rising in the United States, with Republicans and Democrats divided
along racial and ethnic lines that spurred massive bloodshed and democratic collapse …

The rise of Donald Trump has weakened the dominance of the “American exceptionalism”
paradigm in analyses of US politics, but the pivot to views of the United States as part of a …

A growing consensus suggests that a cause of support for undemocratic practices and
partisan violence is that partisans misperceive the other side. That is, they vastly exaggerate …

Names: Bartels, Larry M., 1956–author. Title: Democracy erodes from the top: leaders,
citizens, and the challenges of populism in Europe/Larry M. Bartels. Description: Princeton …

Throughout American history and as recently as the early 1990s, each of the major political
parties included both rural and some urban constituencies, but since then the nation has …

How much should we fear that a president will break the law to pursue power—then use
their office to avoid legal accountability? Political scientists studying the presidency have …

Scholars of American politics have long been skeptical of ordinary citizens' capacity to
influence, let alone control, their governments. Drawing on over eight decades of state-level …

In contemporary democracies, backsliding typically occurs through legal machinations. Self‐
enforcing democracy requires that political parties refrain from exploiting legal opportunities …

This article discusses how the critique of the monopoly of Western liberal thought through
the decolonisation movement that was intended to increase the number of voices heard has …

Emerging literature shows that citizens in established democracies do not unconditionally
support central democratic principles when asked to weigh them against co-partisanship or …