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Featured The best way for Democrats to win in 2020? By ignoring the candidates for now.

Hahrie Han
Lara Putnam

Most candidates agree that “grass-roots engagement” and a good ground campaign matter, but too often candidates misunderstand what actually makes them work.

Article Most candidates agree that “grass-roots engagement” and a good ground campaign matter, but too often candidates misunderstand what actually makes them work. The best way for Democrats to win in 2020? By ignoring the candidates for now.
- Hahrie Han
- Lara Putnam
Academic Journal A first wave of sociological research on the 2016 presidential election has now been published, and a prominent theme of this research is the appeal of Trump’s campaign to white, working-class voters. Status Threat, Material Interests, and the 2016 Presidential Vote
- Stephen Morgan
Academic Journal Last summer, the killings of two unarmed African American men-Eric Garner in Staten Island, New York, and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri-by white police officers reignited the national conversation about racial inequality in the United States. Racial Inequality After Racism
- Robert Lieberman
- Fredrick C. Harris
Academic Journal Political scientists have long used agriculture to study interest group politics. For pluralists like Truman, farmers were typical of ‘pressure groups’ that formed and pursued their interests through politics. Post-exceptionalism and corporate interests in US agricultural policy
- Adam Sheingate
- Allysan Scatterday
- Bob Martin
- Keeve Nachman
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America, Online
- Adam Sheingate
Article It’s not as though the relationship between the Russian government and the German far right, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, has ever been a secret. Russia is cultivating German’s far right. Germans don’t seem to care.
- Anne Applebaum
Academic Journal Russia, Churchill one said, is a "riddle wrapped in an enigma." Nowadays, we need not use such mysterious language, for we know far more about today's Kremlin than we ever knew about the Soviet Union and its secretive elite. Putin’s Grand Strategy
- Anne Applebaum
Academic Journal Although robust citizen participation is fundamental to a healthy democracy, we still lack a clear sense of how to motivate participation. Does the Content of Political Appeals Matter in Motivating Participation? A Field Experiment on Self Disclosure in Political Appeals
- Hahrie Han
Academic Journal
The Organizational Roots of Political Activism: Field Experiments on Creating a Relational Context
- Hahrie Han
Academic Journal At the height of World War II, Henry Luce, the founder of Time magazine, argued that the United States had amassed such wealth and power that the twentieth century would come to be known simply as “the American Century.” The End of the Democratic Century
- Yascha Mounk
- Roberto Stefan Foa

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