Politics & Political Theory

Mark Ramseyer & Frances M. Rosenbluth, Party Organization, in Critical Readings on the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan 205 (Robert Pekkanen ed., 2018).

J. Mark Ramseyer & Eric Bennett Rasmusen, Managed Courts Under Unstable Political Environments: Recruitments and Resignations in the 1990s Japanese Judiciary (Harv. L. Sch. L.

Eric Bennett Rasmusen & J. Mark Ramseyer, Judicial Independence in Civil Law Regimes: Econometrics from Japan, 13 J.L. Econ. & Org. 259 (1997).

J. Mark Ramseyer & Frances McCall Rosenbluth, Japan’s Political Marketplace (Harvard Univ. Press 1993).

J. Mark Ramseyer & Eric B. Rasmusen, Skewed Incentives: Paying for Politics as a Japanese Judge, 83 Judicature 190 (2000).

Eric Bennett Rasmusen & J. Mark Ramseyer, Why Are Japanese Judges So Conservative in Politically Charged Cases?, 95 Am. Pol. Sci. Rev. 331 (2001).

J. Mark Ramseyer, A Japanese Version of Change, Japan Q. Apr.-June 1999, at 102 (reviewing Is Japan Really Changing Its Ways? Regulatory Reform and the…

Eric Bennett Rasmusen & J. Mark Ramseyer, When are Judges and Bureaucrats Left Independent? Theory and History from Imperial Japan, Postwar Japan, and the United…

Alma Cohen & Crystal S. Yang, Judicial Politics and Sentencing Decisions, 11 Am. Econ. J.: Econ. Pol’y 160 (2019).

Mark Tushnet, Judicial Time: A Research Note, SSRN (Sept. 5, 2025).

Mark Tushnet, Amendment theory and constituent power, in Comparative Constitutional Theory (Gary Jacobsohn & Miguel Schor eds., 2025).

Cass R. Sunstein, The Enduring Relevance of Alger Hiss vs. Whittaker Chambers, SSRN (Jan. 6, 2026).

Amna A. Akbar & Ryan D. Doerfler, Imperfect Guardians, 113 California Law Review 2225 (2026).

Mark Tushnet & Bojan Bugaric, Constitutionalism and Its Discontents (forthcoming 2026).

Tali Sharot & Cass R. Sunstein, Will we habituate to the decline of democracy?, 11 Science Advances 1 (2025).

Joseph Marks, Eloise Copland, Eleanor Loh, Cass R. Sunstein & Tali Sharot, Epistemic Spillovers: Learning Others’ Political Views Reduces the Ability to Assess and Use…

Vicki C. Jackson, Accommodating an Old Constitution to the 21st Century State: of Law and Politics, in The Evolution of the Separation of Powers Between…

Cass R. Sunstein, Which Nudges Do People Like? A National Survey, in Handbook of Behavioural Change and Public Policy 285 (Holger Straßheim & Silke Beck…

Samantha Power, To Suffer by Comparison?, 128 Daedalus 31 (1999).

David McCraw, The “Freedom from Information Act”: A Look Back at FOIA, Nader, and What Went Wrong, 126 Yale L.J. F. 232 (2016).

Michael Klarman, Nadine Strossen, Eli Noam, Sanford Levinson & Mark Tushnet, Forum: What’s the Matter With the Supreme Court?, The Nation (Sept. 5, 2018).