Women made a strong showing in legislative races across the country in this year's midterm elections. Meanwhile, polarization is a renewable resource, Krasner's complaint and annals of election denial.
Ever since the rise of the Occupy Wall Street movement in September 2011, intellectuals and politicians have sought to blame rising income inequality for a host of economic, social, and political problems. They have not, however, had great success in proving their case scientifically.
Join prominent journalists and scholars in a discussion of the US elections and their implications! Lisa Lerer, National Political Correspondent, New York Times Nolan McCarty, Susan Dod Brown Professor of Politics and Public Affairs Steve Shepard, Senior campaigns and elections editor, POLITICO Ismail White, Professor of Politics and Public Affairs Lauren Wright, Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer in Politics and Public Affairs, and guest political analyst on CBS, CNN, C-SPAN, Fox News, and MSNBC Moderator: Tali Mendelberg, John Work Garrett Professor of Politics
Professor Howard Rosenthal, a political scientist whose pioneering research confirmed quantitatively that Congress is more politically polarized than at any point since Reconstruction, died July 28 at his home in