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A growing literature shows that democratic institutions, particularly elections, are associated with higher deforestation. To enhance our understanding of the mechanisms driving this relationship, we study the link between the electoral backlash to environmental protection, the incumbents' electoral needs and the behavior of environmental bureaucracies. We argue and show that bureaucratic enforcement follows a politico-economic logic.

What drives variation in redistricting across U.S. history? Redistricting is an electorally disruptive action that reshapes the representative-constituent relationship, and gerrymandering is a persistent feature of American politics. But leaving maps unchanged is just as political as changing them. This book introduces the concept of district protectionism: the strategic preservation of existing electoral geography to maintain established distributions of power.

Why do intensely polarised electorates coexist with unstable parties and volatile elections? Factionalised Voters in Latin America challenges conventional accounts of Latin American voters as politically unmoored and prone to shifting parties unpredictably. It argues instead that beneath the region’s fluid party systems lie persistent identities and antagonisms. At the heart of the book is the concept of the factionalised voter: a citizen who interprets social life through powerful distinctions between political friends and foes.

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The American History Research Seminar meets every Tuesday during term time.

The newest volume in the acclaimed Oxford History of the United States series, Contested Continent recounts the origins of "America" and how it came to birth the United States. Contested Continent is the most ambitiously far-ranging history of North America concentrating on the period from c. 1000 to 1680, from the arrival of Norse explorers to an explosion of revolts that underlined the stubborn struggle to master the continent some two centuries after Columbus's landfall. This history spans the continent from the North Atlantic to the West Indies and includes the entire Atlantic basin.

Rage is having a moment. It is everywhere, among men, women and children, but particularly among feminists like us. This Element is a concentrated meditation on women's rage in Bruised Hibiscus (2000) and Negra (2013), two novels by and about Caribbean women. We explore how expressions of rage braided with feminist solidarity figure in these novels and how this mixture produces affective and political responses to racism and gender-based violence. Our focus on the contours of Caribbean women's rage advances feminist thought on rage as a political tool of power.

Political scientists have recently argued that Congress is 'overwhelmed', and outmatched compared to the substantial resources of the executive branch and outside political interests. Others describe Congress as 'stuck', with individual members feeling unable to bring about their desired policy changes. Yet, compared with national legislators, individual members of Congress have greater resources at their disposal. They have sizeable personal offices, committees staffed with experts of their choosing, and access to skilled, non-partisan research services.