David Leblang and Benjamin Helm's 2023 book. The Ties that Bind. Immigration and the Global Political Economy, provides evidence that state governance affects the levels of emigration as well as international migrants' choice destination. States that provide higher levels of public goods generate fewer emigrants while states that provide access to citizenship and non-discrimination attract m…
As Tocqueville saw almost 200 years ago, rituals sit uncomfortably with democratic people, who tend to see them as inegalitarian or unjust impositions of authority. Molly Farneth's new book, The Politics of Ritual, encourages, American progressiveness to see ritual differently. Rituals, she says, can be enacted in novel ways to serve democratic ends in in the service of political and cultura…