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While backlash in politics isn’t new, political scientist and author Eric Patashnik said the way it has come to characterize the American political landscape is. Patashnik discussed backlash and the role it plays in policy, as well as his new book, “Countermobilization: Policy Feedback and Backlash in a Polarized Age,” at an American Politics Workshop...

Here is an uncontroversial statement: pork is delicious. Bacon and its greasy byproducts can make almost anything taste scrumptious. Here is a more controversial statement: congressional pork, earmarks, or now as they are known now...

Professor Bonnie Honig was recently selected as a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship.

They might help but they probably won’t be enough.

Brown professors are divided over a proposed interdisciplinary research center. Some doubt it would really represent a wide range of perspectives.

By MICHAEL MILLENSON

Eric M. Patashnik Is America’s Grand Experiment With Democracy at an End? Q&A with MPA Director, Eric M. Patashnik and Harvard Business School Professor, Katherine M. Gehl Democracies are supposed to respond to all of their citizens, yet our American political system – as it exists today – is broken: Our political two-party duopoly caters to highly ideological party primary voters and special interests; erects nearly insurmountable barriers to new competition from independents or third pa...