Does the Government Shutdown Reveal the Parties’ Strengths or Weaknesses?
Well, how do you define strengths and weaknesses?
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Seth Masket
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The Unintended Consequences of a Government Shutdown
What happens this week won't end this week. The reverberations of a shutdown will be felt for years to come.
Who Actually Won During the Last Government Shutdown?
It's mostly the younger members of Congress who are pushing for a shutdown of the federal government this week. Do they need a history lesson about what happened in the winter of 1995-96?
The Recall Is the New Normal
Welcome to the age of the permanent campaign, where recalls are easy to trigger than ever before and politicians need to worry about not just tomorrow's war chest, but also today's.
For Want of Voter Fraud, It Had to Be Invented
Voter fraud has become a major cause for some politicians on the right, but one may have taken it too far.
When Polarization Doesn’t Happen: Lessons From Michigan and the United Auto Workers
What happens when activists and interest groups support political candidates who are not in their pocket, and give them leverage to behave more moderately.
Want to Reduce Polarization? You Need to Improve Political Journalism
Ideologically extreme members of Congress are more vulnerable to defeat when voters can learn about their in-office activities through traditional media.
How Our Political Parties Beat Campaign Finance Reform
Did the McCain-Feingold Act of 2002 have any of its intended effects?
Mapping Politics
Obama's field offices were more effective than Romney's before the last presidential election, how the dispersion of donations is related to candidate success, and other things we're learning by incorporating maps into new political science research.
What Is Ideology?
Why do those who support universal health care almost always also desire a ban on assault weapons? Ideology is more than just the sum total of our own individual political beliefs. An ideology is, in some ways, like a coalition of ideas.