Robert C. Lieberman is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Political Science at the Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of the award-winning books Shifting the Color Line: Race and the American Welfare State and Shaping Race Policy: The United States in Comparative Perspective, and has written about American politics for Foreign Affairs. He has received fellowships from the Russell Sage Foundation and the American Philosophical Society. He previously served as provost of the Johns Hopkins University and as dean of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.
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An urgent, historically-grounded take on the four major factors that undermine American democracy, and what we can do to address them. While many Americans despair of the current state of U.S. politics, most assume that our system of government and dem... SEE MORE