Social Justice Why Are American Elections so Long? Long campaigns cause candidates to prioritize fundraising, but shorter ones favor party-line voting. Seth Masket
News in Brief Irish Government Moves to Abolish Senate Caught in a devastating economic crisis, Ireland considers killing off this political body, Seanad Éireann, which many see as a vestigial organ from the country’s bifurcated founding. Colin Murphy
News in Brief Dismissing Gridlock: A Case for Parliamentary Systems One system of democratic government is consistently better, say two political scientists, and it's not the one we have in the United States. Lee Drutman