Aestheticizing the Beautiful City: Democratic Politics and Design Review

Preventive War and Democratic Politics

I define the concept of preventive war, distinguish it from preemption and other sources of better-now-than-later logic, and examine numerous conceptual issues that confound theoretical and empirical analyses of prevention. I then consider the argument that democracies rarely if ever adopt preventive war strategies because such strategies are contrary to the preferences of democratic publics an...

Democratic Politics and Economic Reform in India

Aestheticizing the ancestral city: antiquarianism, topography and the representation of London in the long eighteenth century.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (1755) defined `Metropolis' as the `mother city'. Forged from the Greek m et er, the use of maternal metaphors for London had a long tradition in literature which reached its emotive peak in the poetic responses to the Great Fire of 1666. A notable case in point is Roger l'Estrange's Vox Civitatis: or, London's Call to her Natural and Adopted Children; Exciting them ...

Immigration, Latinos, and White Partisan Politics: The New Democratic Defection

Immigration is profoundly changing the racial demographics of America. In this article, we seek to understand if and how immigration and increasing racial diversity are shaping the partisan politics of individual white Americans. We show that whites’ views on immigration and Latinos are strongly related to their core political identities and vote choices. Using a range of different surveys, we ...

Fast thinking: Implications for democratic politics

Amajor programmeof research on cognition has been built around the idea that human beings are frequently intuitive thinkers and that human intuition is imperfect.Themodernmarketing of politics and the time-poor position ofmany citizens suggests that ‘fast’, intuitive, thinking inmany contemporary democracies is ubiquitous. This article explores the consequences that such fast thinking might hav...