Academic Research

The composer Benjamin Britten once said that there “are a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like, I ...

In this paper, I explore some of the political outcomes of networked relationships within a policy domain. Specifically, the outcomes for this paper are an ...

Whether it is the civil rights movement of the 1960s or today’s Tea Party movement, outsiders in American politics have always played a crucial role in ...

Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding her confirmation as a Supreme Court Justice, Solicitor General Elena Kagan summed up in a cool and ...

Politics as partisan warfare: that is our world. Over the last generation, American democracy has had one defining attribute: extreme partisan polarization. We have not seen ...

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s foundation-shifting decision in Citizens United v. FEC, the media and other commentators could be forgiven for mostly overlooking a ...

The United States Supreme Court decided in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that Congress may not prohibit spending on political speech by corporations. President Obama and ...

Liberals are currently engaged in a concerted effort to redefine judicial activism. Rather than accepting the true definition of judicial activism—when a judge applies his or her ...

In Maine and Arizona, legislative candidates’ participation in the public financing programs, as measured by the percentage of candidates participating and the proportion of races with ...

In 2009, two uniquely American experiences so grossly offended an individual right that a bitterly divided Supreme Court had to step in. Foreigners scoff at ...