Scholarship

How did the German Weimar Republic, a constitutional democracy with checks and balances descend into a totalitarian system, the dictatorship of the Nazis? In his new book, “The Death of Democracy: Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic,” Professor Benjamin C. Hett (The Graduate Center, CUNY [...]

Elections are pervasive features of democracies. But despite the importance of candidate and campaign features, these are rarely included in election forecasting. Charles Tien, professor of political science at Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY, together with Michael Lewis-Beck, has taken on this paradox in an article published in [...]