Politis
A Citizen’s Guide to Greece 2015

 
 

 
ALL ARTICLES
 

Who wants to …?

Election day is nigh upon us. With this in mind, there are three dimensions to the question I have been thinking of asking: Who wants to run, who wants to vote, and who wants to govern. In May 2014 the Dukakis Center examined a...
by DW
0
Full Story »

 
 
ALL ARTICLES
 

Accounting for all of those voices

By Katharine Welch Note of the Editors. Katharine “Katie” Welch is a freshman at Northeastern University majoring in Political Science, studying abroad at ACT and interning at the Dukakis Center. She is from San Fra...
by Politis
0
Full Story »

 
 
ALL ARTICLES
 

What They’re Saying About Us Now: July 16 Edition

Americans look at the crisis in Europe and think they see “an underdeveloped version of the American polity,” that if European leaders only acted more like us, everything would be solved.  This article by Russell A...
by MK
0
Full Story »

 

 
ALL ARTICLES
 

Toward a new American center?

David Brooks writes in his New York Times column today that President Obama made a strong case for a “pragmatic and patriotic progressivism” in his second inaugural address yesterday. Where does leave the thoughtful...
by Politis
0
Full Story »

 
 
ALL ARTICLES
 

Democratic futures: mobilizing voices and remixing youth participation

“There has been a longstanding narrative of youth political apathy and disengagement from democratic life. However, this perception is now giving way to a richer account, one that seeks to illuminate the dynamic ways in w...
by Politis
0
Full Story »

 
 
ALL ARTICLES
 

Saying of the day: 2/26/13

by Politis
0
Full Story »

 

 
ALL ARTICLES
 

Tribalism and postpartisanship: competing visions of the state of nature?

By David Wisner These are interesting times for the analysis of European politics, from a hung Parliament in the UK, to the rise and fall of the Pirate Party in Germany, to the triumph of M5S in Italy, to the surge of Golden Da...
by DW
0
Full Story »

 
 
ALL ARTICLES
 

Saying of the day: 3/27/13

    “Cyprus should leave the euro. Now.” — Paul Krugman
by Politis
0
Full Story »

 
 
ALL ARTICLES
 

Iron ladies

by Politis
0
Full Story »

 

 
ALL ARTICLES
 

Saying of the day: 5/13/13

  “I learned… that writing is play. So is reading. They are things you do to enjoy yourself. I found out that I enjoyed writing, and I could do it for hours on end, for my own amusement, rather than for any ass...
by Politis
0
Full Story »