Affiliated Faculty

"Stable democracies require a moderate level of peaceful citizen participation between elections, otherwise governments become unaccountable..."

"We spend a lot of time in bioethics responding to specific new advances and also... how to think about new technologies in a societal context."

"To limit or repeal the Fourteenth Amendment is to reject its democratic spirit, a spirit of expansive inclusion free of racism, anti-Semitism, political cronyism, or other narrowing prejudices."

"Nationalism is a malleable ideology that can be harnessed to support diverse, even contradictory, policy positions regarding foreign threats to the nation."

"...racial division and inequality remain disturbingly present and disruptive forces in American political life- even more so today, in many ways, than in the...days of slavery or Jim Crow."

"...symptoms of the alleged deficit in democratic quality are corruption, government by executive decree, clientelism, and ineffective checks and balances."

"Social class can be a structural dimension of dealignment and is an obvious candidate during periods when gains from economic growth are unevenly distributed."

"In the last 100 years a modern political consulting industry took shape – and took control of American elections."

"There is a well-established link between economic down-turns... and rising levels of intolerance, racism, and political extremism."