Latest posts

Book Review: Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny by Sarah Banet-Weiser

Share this:

In Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny, Sarah Banet-Weiser engages with popular feminism through the lens of ambivalence, charting both the relatively recent rise of feminism in the public eye, but also exploring the proliferation of its obverse, the force of popular misogyny. Showing how contemporary feminism’s commitment to popularity – defined as an over-reliance on individual striving and a commitment to […]

May 26th, 2019|Book Reviews, Democracy and culture, Featured, Rebecca Liu|0 Comments|
Read More
  • Permalink Gallery

    Book Review: How to Save a Constitutional Democracy by Tom Ginsburg and Aziz Z. Huq

Book Review: How to Save a Constitutional Democracy by Tom Ginsburg and Aziz Z. Huq

Share this:

In How to Save a Constitutional Democracy, Tom Ginsburg and Aziz Z. Huq focus on the structural forces that can break democratic societies and the role the constitutional system plays in democratic failure as well as its prevention. The book’s clear and engaging approach makes it a valuable contribution to scholarship on democracy and authoritarianism, recommends Lorenzo Canepari.

How to Save a […]

May 26th, 2019|Book Reviews, Democracy and culture, Featured, Lorenzo Canepari|0 Comments|
Read More
  • Permalink Gallery

    Charting the rise and fall of North American leadership in global science: Insights from the population of Nobel Laureates.

Charting the rise and fall of North American leadership in global science: Insights from the population of Nobel Laureates.

Share this:

For the majority of the last century North America has been at the epicentre of global scientific research. However, through the course of the 21st century other countries have begun to close this gap in a number of ways, notably China is now the global leader in published research and is on course to overtake the US in […]

May 25th, 2019|Arlette Jappe, David Pithan, Education, Featured, Thomas Heinze|0 Comments|
Read More
  • Permalink Gallery

    Primary Primers: Why California is set to matter even more in the 2020 election

Primary Primers: Why California is set to matter even more in the 2020 election

Share this:

The Golden State is the most populated in the US, has the largest GDP, and importantly, is likely to have the most primary delegates in the 2020 Democratic nomination contest. Peter Finn and Robert Ledger write that by moving its presidential primary from June to March, the Democratic-dominated state is now poised to play a significant role in determining […]

May 24th, 2019|2020 Primary Primers, Elections and party politics across the US, Featured, Peter Finn, Robert Ledger|0 Comments|
Read More
  • Permalink Gallery

    The GOP’s “supply-side” abortion bans won’t work and will have dire consequences for women’s health

The GOP’s “supply-side” abortion bans won’t work and will have dire consequences for women’s health

Share this:

Lawmakers in many conservative-states have recently passed a tranche of far-reaching bills aimed at restricting abortion. Alex Keena argues that such “supply-side” measures to prevent abortion are unlikely to be effective, as they will do little to reduce the number of women who get abortions. Instead of being able to access abortion in their home states, he writes, women […]

May 23rd, 2019|Alex Keena, Featured, Healthcare and public services|0 Comments|
Read More
  • Permalink Gallery

    Black students’ choices are at least as important as colleges’ policies in reducing the black-white degree gap

Black students’ choices are at least as important as colleges’ policies in reducing the black-white degree gap

Share this:

Despite policies to counter the legacy of discrimination, such as affirmative action, black students are still far less likely to complete a bachelor’s degree compared to whites. In new research Christina Ciocca Eller and Thomas A. DiPrete find that black students are actually more willing to enter-four year colleges than whites, and that their own actions do at least […]

May 22nd, 2019|Christina Ciocca Eller, Education, Featured, Thomas A. DiPrete|0 Comments|
Read More
  • Permalink Gallery

    The United States has actually been moving backward on integrating its workplaces

The United States has actually been moving backward on integrating its workplaces

Share this:

Despite progress in the 1960s and 1970s, the desegregation of US employment has largely ground to a halt. In new research, John-Paul Ferguson finds that, in addition, individual workplaces have actually become more segregated over the past three decades. They comment that until now, workplace segregation has been little-studied; their results show that society has made less progress in […]

May 22nd, 2019|Economy, Featured, John-Paul Ferguson|0 Comments|
Read More
  • Permalink Gallery

    Will Dysfunctional Politics Finally End the American Century?

Will Dysfunctional Politics Finally End the American Century?

Share this:

The United States has dominated international politics since the end of the Second World War. And while it retains tremendous wealth and military strength, the domestic hyper-partisanship which has characterized the post-Cold War era is draining the country’s ‘usable power’ argue Peter Trubowitz and Peter Harris.

Can the United States continue to shape international politics as it has done for the […]

May 20th, 2019|LSE Comment, Peter Harris, Peter Trubowitz, US foreign affairs and the North American neighbourhood|0 Comments|
Read More
  • Permalink Gallery

    Book Review: Aboriginal Peoples and the Law: A Critical Introduction by Jim Reynolds

Book Review: Aboriginal Peoples and the Law: A Critical Introduction by Jim Reynolds

Share this:

In Aboriginal Peoples and the Law: A Critical Introduction, Jim Reynolds offers an excellent new encapsulation of Canadian Aboriginal law, discussing 163 cases stretching from 1823 up until the present day and covering topics including sovereignty, Aboriginal title and treaties. Reynolds draws on his wealth of experience to provide a compendious summary of the development of Aboriginal law in Canada, writes […]

May 19th, 2019|Book Reviews, Democracy and culture, Sarah Pike|0 Comments|
Read More
  • Permalink Gallery

    Book Review: The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students by Anthony Abraham Jack

Book Review: The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students by Anthony Abraham Jack

Share this:

In The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students, Anthony Abraham Jack seeks to better comprehend the unnoticed heterogeneous experiences of first-generation, low-income students navigating campus life at elite universities in the United States. This is a significant contribution to debates on class and mobility, writes Malik Fercovic, that compels us to think carefully about the responsibilities of […]

May 19th, 2019|Book Reviews, Democracy and culture|0 Comments|
Read More
This work by LSE USAPP blog is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported.