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This Too Shall Pass: Reflections on the Repositioning of Political Parties

September 13, 2013, Pietro S. Nivola

To Fathom the Fiscal Fix, Look in the Mirror

January 7, 2013, Pietro S. Nivola

What Today’s Political Parties Can Learn From the War of 1812

November 14, 2012, Pietro S. Nivola

What So Proudly We Hailed

Essays on the Contemporary Meaning of the War of 1812

2012, Pietro S. Nivola and Peter J. Kastor, eds.

Learning from James Q. Wilson

September 7, 2012, Pietro S. Nivola

Could it be that, for all the laments about America's 'gridlocked' and 'broken' political system, it actually appears to have done a better job contending with the Great Recession and its aftermath than do many other advanced democracies?

June 5, 2012, Pietro S. Nivola, National Public Radio

Clean Energy: Revisiting the Challenges of Industrial Policy

June 4, 2012, Adele Morris, Pietro S. Nivola and Charles L. Schultze

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Broadband and Energy Efficiency

May 30, 2012

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America's Political Gridlock and the Euro Crisis

May 21, 2012, Pietro S. Nivola

Federalism’s Downside

February 16, 2012, Pietro S. Nivola

State of the Union 2012: Politics and Policy

January 25, 2012

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Presidential Leadership, Then and Now: Woodrow Wilson and Barack Obama

January 2012, Pietro S. Nivola

Creating and Sustaining Democracy in the Middle East: Constitution and Governance Building

May 2, 2011

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Partisanship in Perspective

Fall 2010, Pietro S. Nivola

What Do We Really Think About the Budget Deficit?

June 21, 2010, Pietro S. Nivola

Rebalancing American Federalism

March-April 2010 , Pietro S. Nivola

Is America the New France? How President Obama's Policies are Transforming the United States

April 28, 2009

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Know Thy Neighbor: What Canada Can Tell Us About Financial Regulation

April 23, 2009, John C. Courtney and Pietro S. Nivola

In Defense of Partisan Politics

April 8, 2009, Pietro S. Nivola

Center-Left America?

April 2009, Pietro S. Nivola

The Long and Winding Road: Automotive Fuel Economy and American Politics

February 25, 2009, Pietro S. Nivola

Fiscal Stimulus Roundtable

February 10, 2009

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Rethinking “Energy Independence”

December 29, 2008, Pietro S. Nivola

A “Broken” Branch? Four Lessons from Congress’s Great Financial Bailout Saga

October 8, 2008, Pietro S. Nivola

“Change” or Plus Ça Change…? Pondering Presidential Politics and Policy after Bush

September 2008, Charles O. Jones and Pietro S. Nivola