Mischiefs of Faction

Panel discussion on "The 2020 Primary: Representation and the Battle for a Presidential Nomination." Held at the University of Denver on 1/23/20. Featuring Seth Masket, Ismail White, Julia Azari, Christina Wolbrecht, and Hans Noel.

Discussion by Jennifer Victor, Amy Erica Smith, Hans Noel, and Seth Masket at the annual conference of the Southern Political Science Association in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on 1/11/2020. (Photo by Jack Santucci.)

Jennifer Victor, Richard Skinner, and Seth Masket talk with Vox editor-at-large Ezra Klein about dissatisfaction with American democracy, the evolutions of and differences between the Democratic and Republican parties, and what political science gets right and wrong. The articles and books mentioned here include, but aren't limited to, the following: -Julia Azari, “Weak parties and strong partisanship are a bad combination” -Will Blythe, "To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever: A Thoroughly Obsessive, Intermittently Uplifting, and Occasionally Unbiased Account of the Duke-North Carolina Basketball Rivalry" -Michael Finkel, "The Stranger in the Woods" -Matt Grossmann and David Hopkins, "Asymmetric Politics: Ideological Republicans and Group Interest Democrats" -Ezra Klein, “White Threat in a Browning America” -Lilliana Mason, "Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity" -Joanne M. Miller, Kyle L. Saunders, and Christina E. Farhart, “Conspiracy Endorsement as Motivated Reasoning: The Moderating Roles of Political Knowledge and Trust” -Diana Mutz, "Hearing the Other Side: Deliberative versus Participatory Democracy" -Neil Postman, "Amusing Ourselves to Death" Recorded in Washington DC on July 26, 2018 at the Vox studios.

Alexandra Petri of the Washington Post joins Jennifer Victor, Jonathan Ladd, and Seth Masket for a discussion of party polarization, political satire, and Star Wars. Recorded June 12, 2018 at the Library of Congress. Note: At around the 32-minute mark, we mess up a reference to a blog post about inexperienced candidates. That post was by Sarah Treul and Rachel Porter and can be found here: https://www.vox.com/mischiefs-of-faction/2018/4/20/17261870/inexperienced-candidates-republicans Petri's Post page can be found here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/alexandra-petri

The Mischiefs of Faction meet in Chicago to discuss: -The 2016 election and Hillary Clinton's over- or under-performance. -The state of American party coalitions. -Trump's relations with Congress.