Political Economy in Public

       The 2020 US election reflects, and will not resolve, the ongoing crisis of the US constitutional order. While there are still votes t...

Eric Rauchway has written an excellent review of Reed Hundt’s new book about the missed opportunity of Obama’s early presidency, framed a...

Back in the 19 th century, John Stuart Mill worried about a danger to democracy built into the institution of majority rule itself. Suppo...

In the latest LRB, Wolfgang Streeck asserts the following: German prosperity has depended historically on the export of manufactured goo...

In a famous paper , North and Weingast linked the security of property rights to constitutional government. They argue that the 17th centu...

Goldilocks’ ideal porridge, you may recall, was neither too hot nor too cold, but rather just right. A lot of people think this ideal has ...

Over the course of the last couple of years, the political science discipline has twice hit the headlines for scandals linked to "fiel...