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Not Another Politics Podcast

Do Extremist Voters Dominate Primary Elections?

Feb 26, 2020

Do primaries attract more extremist voters who skew elections toward candidates like Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump? The common thought has always been that extremist voters, because of their intense passion on issues, are more likely to vote in primaries. But one scholar at UCLA says the real story is far more...

The Troubling Economic Logic of Racially Charged Policies

Feb 12, 2020

Could racially charged policies cause you to act racist, even if you aren’t actually a racist? That’s the story two political scientists, Stephane Wolton and Torun Dewan from the London School of Economics and Political Science, tell in a recent paper: