Scholarship on elites and foreign policy has made important advances in identifying who
elites are, what elites want, and how elites influence foreign policy. This review assesses …

Owning a house is the most important economic choice most families will ever make. Yet,
our understanding of the political causes and consequences of homeownership is rather …

The 2016 election of Donald J. Trump invoked a time for reflection about the state of
American politics and its deep ideological, cultural, racial, regional, and economic divisions …

When Barack Obama won the presidency, many posited that we were entering into a post-
racial period in American politics. Regrettably, the reality hasn't lived up to that expectation …

America faces daunting problems—stagnant wages, high health care costs, neglected
schools, deteriorating public services. How did we get here? Through decades of …

During the past two generations, democratic forms have coexisted with massive increases in
economic inequality in the United States and many other advanced democracies. Moreover …

Updated analysis of how the increasing polarization of American politics has been
accompanied and accelerated by greater income inequality. The idea of America as …

This essay highlights productive ways in which scholars have reanimated the concept of
structural power to explain puzzles in international and comparative politics. Past …

The 2008 bailout is often taken as evidence of the domination of the US political system by
large financial institutions. In fact, the bailout demonstrated the vulnerability of US banks to …

Political elites of the United States are deeply polarized. Polarization of the Democratic and
Republican Parties is higher than at any time since the end of the Civil War. This essay …