One might argue that political science has gone further than any other social science in
developing a rigorous field of study devoted to qualitative methods. This review article …

** Shortlisted for the nasen Special Educational Needs Academic Book award 2008**
Inclusion has become very influential internationally in the field of schooling. This has …

Das Erstarken rechtspopulistischer Bewegungen führt zu einer Normverschiebung in
europäischen Gesellschaften und erzeugt Spannungen, die sich in Polarisierung …

Partisanship continues to divide Americans. Using data from the American National Election
Studies (ANES), we find that partisans not only feel more negatively about the opposing …

Deliberative democracy has challenged two widely-accepted nostrums about democratic
politics: that people lack the capacities for effective self-government; and that democratic …

Although there is a lively academic debate about contemporary populism in Europe and
Latin America, almost no cross-regional research exists on this topic. This article aims to fill …

In Post-Democracy (Polity, 2004) Colin Crouch argued that behind the façade of strong
institutions, democracy in many advanced societies was being hollowed out, its big events …

Democracy has many attractive features. Among them is its tendency to track the truth, at
least under certain idealized assumptions. That basic result has been known since 1785 …

A few centuries ago, capitalism set in motion an explosion of economic productivity. Markets
and private property had existed for millennia, but what other key institutions fostered …

Winner of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung prize The financial crisis seemed to present a
fundamental challenge to neo-liberalism, the body of ideas that have constituted the political …