Bartels’s Unequal Democracy was a $1600 answer in the Jeopardy category “Barack Obama’s reading list.”

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In 2017, Bartels (with Chancellor Nicholas Zeppos) received the Earl Sutherland Prize for Career Achievement in Research, Vanderbilt’s highest faculty honor.

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“This book is the political science equivalent of being told Santa doesn’t exist.”—Political analyst Ezra Klein on Democracy for Realists.

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In 2013, Bartels was inducted into the National Academy of Sciences, the 22nd political scientist in the Academy’s 150-year history.

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Bartels designed and pieced a small quilt using autobiographical blocks created by a former student.

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Work in Progress

“Work, Welfare, and Partisan Change” (with Katherine J. Cramer, 2020). “Conceptions of Good Citizenship in the Class of 1965” (with Katherine J. Cramer, 2020). “The Struggle(s) for Equality: Civil Rights, Women’s Rights, and Political Change” (with Katherine J. Cramer, 2019). “The Lessons of Vietnam: Social Identity, the Vietnam War, and Contemporary Political Divides” (with Katherine…

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Curriculum Vitae

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Publications

Books Democracy Erodes from the Top: Leaders, Citizens, and the Challenge of Populism in Europe (Princeton University Press, 2023, 2024). A seeming explosion of support for right-wing populist parties has triggered widespread fears that liberal democracy is facing its worst crisis since the 1930s. In this provocative book, Larry Bartels dismantles the pervasive myth of…

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About Me

Larry M. Bartels is one of the world’s most influential scholars of democratic politics. His pathbreaking books include Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age (2nd edition), Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (with Christopher Achen), Presidential Primaries and the Dynamics of Public Choice, and Democracy Erodes from…

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