Money and the Abortion Debate
January 26, 2024
Mary Ziegler— How did the abortion debate come to revolutionize the broader struggle over money in politics? The story has many characters, but James Bopp Jr. stands out. A proud… READ MORE
Tag: government
Theories of Managerialism
October 1, 2021
Beth Simone Noveck— In recent decades, especially since Reagan and Thatcher, some scholars and practitioners have argued that the way to fix government is to copy the techniques of the… READ MORE
Paradoxes of Constitutional Processes
September 29, 2021
Donald L. Horowitz— Suppose you were advising a constitutional assembly chosen to produce a new constitution for a troubled country. Most constitutions are created because some trouble has occurred: the… READ MORE
Why Liberalism Failed
February 20, 2019
Patrick J. Deneen— A political philosophy conceived some 500 years ago, and put into effect at the birth of the United States nearly 250 years later, was a wager that… READ MORE
Investigating a President
June 2, 2017
Josh Chafetz— It’s hard to keep track of all of the ongoing investigations into the Trump campaign and administration. At the very least, we know of inquiries by special counsel… READ MORE
The Growth of Presidential Power
May 17, 2016
Benjamin Ginsberg— For most of the nineteenth century, the presidency was a weak institution. In unusual circumstances, a Jefferson, a Jackson, or a Lincoln might exercise extraordinary power, but most… READ MORE
Robert Dahl and the Future of Democracy, A Year and a Half After His Passing
July 21, 2015
Ian Shapiro— Robert Dahl died on February 5, 2014 at the age of ninety-eight. He might well have been the most important political scientist of the last century, and he… READ MORE
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