Christina L. Davis examines the discriminatory logic at the heart of multilateralism. Overview Member selection is one of the defining elements of social organization, imposing categories on who we are and what we do. Discriminatory Clubs shows how international organizations are like social clubs, ones in which institutional rules and informal practices enable states to favor friends…
Authored by three of the USA’s most well-known scholars on American politics – Zoltan L. Hajnal, University of California, Vincent L. Hutchings, University of Michigan, and Taeku Lee, Harvard University – this undergraduate textbook argues that racial considerations are today – and have always been since the nation’s founding – central to understanding America’s political system writ large….
Race and class inequality are at the crux of many policy disputes in American cities. But are they the only factors driving political discord? In Race/Class Conflict and Urban Financial Threat, political scientist Jennifer L. Hochschild examines significant policies in four major American cities to determine when race and class shape city politics, when they do not,…
Stephanie Ternullo’s first book helps us understand why white voters in America’s heartland are shifting to the right. Overview Over the past several decades, predominantly White, postindustrial cities in America’s agriculture and manufacturing center have flipped from blue to red. Cities that were once part of the traditional Democratic New Deal coalition began to vote…
Understanding how local contexts determine why white voters in America’s heartland are shifting to the right is the driving force behind Stephanie Ternullo’s first published book How the Heartland Went Red: Why Local Forces Matter in an Age of Nationalized Politics. Stephanie Ternullo is an Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard, joining the department after…
This study by Peter Hall, Georgina Evans, and Sung In Kim documents long-term changes in the political attitudes of occupational groups, shifts in the salience of economic and cultural issues, and the movement of political parties in the electoral space from 1990 to 2018 in eight western democracies. This study by Peter Hall, Georgina Evans,…
Christina Davis’s new book examines the discriminatory logic at the heart of multilateralism. Overview: Member selection is one of the defining elements of social organization, imposing categories on who we are and what we do. Discriminatory Clubs shows how international organizations are like social clubs, ones in which institutional rules and informal practices enable states to favor friends…
Why American democracy reached the breaking point America is undergoing a massive experiment: It is moving, in fits and starts, toward a multiracial democracy, something few societies have ever done. But the prospect of change has sparked an authoritarian backlash that threatens the very foundations of our political system. Why is democracy under assault here,…
Uncertain Futures proposes solutions to make more credible promises that build support for the energy transition. OVERVIEW: Political scientists Alexander F. Gazmararian at Princeton and Dustin Tingley at Harvard have a pathbreaking new book on climate politics. Why is the world not moving fast enough to solve the climate crisis? Politics stand in the way, but experts hope that green…
How social networks shaped the imperial Chinese statewritten by Yuhua Wang Yuhua Wang’s new book highlights a fundamental trade-off in China’s state building, which he calls the sovereign’s dilemma: a coherent elite that could take collective actions to strengthen the state was also capable of revolting against the ruler. OVERVIEW: China was the world’s leading superpower…
