Publications

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    Comparing America: Reflections on Democracy across Subfields
    Didi Kuo
    Journal Articles
    Is America in a period of democratic decline? I argue that there is an urgent need to consider the United States in comparative perspective, and that doing so is necessary to contextualize and...
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    Clientelism, Capitalism, and Democracy
    Didi Kuo
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    Political parties in the United States and Britain used clientelism and patronage to govern throughout the nineteenth century. By the twentieth century, however, parties in both countries shifted to...
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    Has The Top Two Primary Elected More Moderates?
    Eric McGhee, Boris Shor
    Working Papers
    AbstractThe Top Two primary is one of the most interesting and closely-watched political reforms in the United States in recent years.  This radically open primary system removes much of the formal...
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    Regulating Campaigns Online
    Nathaniel Persily
    Journal Articles
    In "The American Interest", Nate Persily discusses the challenge of applying current regulatory frameworks to the world of online campaigns and digital technology. Campaign regulations were created...
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    Electoral Systems and Polarization
    Larry Diamond
    Journal Articles
    In an article in "The American Interest", Larry Diamond advocates electoral system reforms, including top-two and ranked-choice voting, as a potential antidote to partisan polarization. Such reforms...
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Journal Articles
Comparing America: Reflections on Democracy across Subfields
  • Didi Kuo
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Books
Clientelism, Capitalism, and Democracy
  • Didi Kuo
screen shot 2016 06 16 at 12 27 19 pm
Working Papers
Has The Top Two Primary Elected More Moderates?
  • Eric McGhee, Boris Shor
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Journal Articles
Regulating Campaigns Online
  • Nathaniel Persily
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Journal Articles
Electoral Systems and Polarization
  • Larry Diamond
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Polarization and Partisanship
  • Didi Kuo
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Electoral Integrity in the United States
  • Stephen J. Stedman
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Transparency and Governance
  • Bruce E. Cain
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Politics of Budgeting
  • Francis Fukuyama
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Solutions to Political Polarization in America
  • Nathaniel Persily
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Conference Report: Lobbying and Campaign Finance [November 2014]
  • Didi Kuo
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Conference Report: Electoral Systems Reform in the U.S. [Mar. 2014]
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Democracy More or Less: America's Political Reform Quandary
  • Bruce E. Cain
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Conference Report: Comparative Budget Policy: Lessons for Reform in the United States [May 2014]