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Save to My PortfolioCompound Democracies: The Growing Similarities Between the U.S. and Europe

Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Washington, DC

Reuters/Francois LenoirAccording to Sergio Fabbrini, professor of political science at Italy’s Trento University, the differences between U.S. and European democracies are diminishing—the result of regional integration in Europe over the last 60 years. The political systems of the European Union and U.S. now represent two species of the same political genus: the compound democracy. On April 29, the Center on the United States and Europe will host Professor Fabbrini for a discussion of compound democracies and the growing similarities between the U.S. and Europe. Read More

Europe, European Union, Governance

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioUnusual Nonsense: Supreme Court's Decision about "Cruel and Unusual Punishment"

Benjamin Wittes, April 28, 2008, The New Republic

Unusual Nonsense: Supreme Court's Decision about The Supreme Court recently handed down a decision upholding as constitutional the specific mixture of drugs by which thirty states put condemned prisoners to death.  In this piece, Ben Wittes writes about the Supreme Court's failure to rationalize its decisions about cruel and unusual punishment. Read More

Courts, Human Rights, U.S. Judiciary, Civil Liberties, Justice and Law

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Save to My PortfolioPublic Confidence in Charities, 2008 Report

Paul C. Light, April 2008, Issues in Governance Studies #13

Public Confidence in Charities, 2008 ReportPublic confidence in charities remains at contemporary lows, writes Paul C. Light in a recent report. Americans will be treated to a cascade of stories about charitable fraud, waste and abuse unless the sector takes aggressive action to create headlines about success. Read More

Non-profits, Governance, Polling and Public Opinion

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioHigh Time for a Helping Hand for Strapped American Families

Elisabeth Jacobs, April 24, 2008, The Brookings Institution

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Save to My PortfolioReexamining American Exceptionalism

Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Washington, DC

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioA Collapse of the Campaign Finance Regime?

Thomas E. Mann, April 2008, The Forum, Volume 6, Issue 1

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioObama Criticized for 'Bitter' Blue-Collar Remarks

Sherry Linkon, Reihan Salam and Ruy Teixeira, April 14, 2008, NPR Talk of the Nation

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioThe Decline of the White Working Class and the Rise of a Mass Upper Middle Class

Alan Abramowitz and Ruy Teixeira, April 2008, The Brookings Institution

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Save to My PortfolioThe Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Monday, April 07, 2008
Washington, DC

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioJohn Yoo Interrogation Memo

Benjamin Wittes, April 05, 2008, The New Republic

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioTaking Stock of Diefenbaker at 50

John C. Courtney, April 02, 2008, The Brookings Institution

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Save to My PortfolioHow and When Experience in a President Counts

Charles O. Jones, March 2008, The Brookings Institution

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioCreating a New Public Diplomacy Cabinet Post

William A. Galston, Spring 2008, Democracy Journal, Issue #8

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioMichigan and Florida Broke the Rules; Don’t Bail Them Out

Thomas E. Mann, March 20, 2008, USA Today

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioConsulting IDPs: Moving Beyond Rhetoric

February 2008, Meeting on Consultation Mechanisms for Internally Displaced Persons, Geneva, Switzerland

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Kathryn Dunn Tenpas

Kathryn Dunn Tenpas

Nonresident Senior Fellow, Governance Studies

Katharyn Dunn Tenpas studies the U.S. presidency and has written extensively about presidential campaigns; White House operations; presidential polling and political consultants; and President Bush’s faith-based initiative. She has also advised the White House on administration transitions.
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Pietro S. Nivola

Pietro S. Nivola

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The Douglas Dillon Chair

Pietro Nivola is a senior fellow and served as VP and director of Governance Studies from 2004-2008. He has written widely on energy policy, regulation, federalism and American politics. His current project is a study of partisan polarization.
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