With less than three months until the US presidential elections, it feels that the country has never been as polarized as it is at the moment. While polarization trends have been conclusively shown at the party system level, much less is known about the extent to which party polarization is [...]
Could there be a “left moment” in American politics? In a new article, CUNY political scientist Corey Robin and co-author Alex Gourevitch argue that the left, despite some momentum, is lacking an overarching ideological claim. That claim, they propose, could be freedom. In their opinion, the left should make an [...]
Could this be the future of democracy? Imagine deciding for which candidate or political party you should vote for in an election – what is the basis of your decision? Voting decisions are no an easy tasks, and the data show it. For example, in the 2016 presidential election a [...]
The Covid-19 outbreak and the ensuing global pandemic has already had far-reaching changes for hundreds of millions of people around the world. Governments have resorted to extraordinary measures. In Italy, the whole country is on lockdown. In Germany, all “non-essential” establishments have been closed by a coordinated action of state [...]
What drives the electoral support of secular parties in Middle Eastern Countries in the aftermath of the Arab spring? While much research has been devoted to explaining the strength of Islamist parties in post-Arab spring countries, little is known about secular parties and their sources of support. In a new [...]
Can a strategy of ostracizing far-right anti-immigrant parties contribute to their containment or do these strategies have the opposite effect. A new paper by Baruch political scientist Till Weber, published jointly with Joost van Spanje in the journal Party Politics, suggests that the effects of boycotting far-right anti-immigrant parties are [...]
In 2019, a turbulent last year of the decade, complete with major implications for democracy such as climate change and increasing inequality, the "The Promise and Perils of Democracy" project was in full swing. Our events highlighted issues as the role of justice in democracies and the judiciary in the [...]
We are looking forward to our December 10 event on "The Future of Global Capitalism." Branko Milanovic, Graduate Center economist and scholar at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, will discuss his new book, Capitalism, Alone (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2019), in conversation with Janet Gornick, James K. Galbraith, [...]
Ecuador has been shaken by violent protests after the government announced that it would cut fuel subsidies as part of a larger austerity package negotiated with the International Monetary Fund, IMF, to secure a $ 4.2 billion loan. Prices for diesel fuel more than doubled, with gas prices rising as [...]
How does the far-right French party Front National (FN) frame terrorist attacks in their attempt to justify its anti-immigrant agenda? In a new paper, published in the journal Nations and Nationalism, CUNY political scientist Rachel D. Hutchins and Daphne Halikiopoulou from the University of Reading (UK) show that the FN [...]