Recent Faculty Publications

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What Our Faculty Are Writing About

From “the tyranny of printers” in early America, to the British Empire in the Middle East, to Dwight Eisenhower and the Federal Highway Act, the research of Kinder Institute professors explores both the large themes and the fine details that are essential to making sense of constitutional democracy around the globe. 

And as they’re writing about the past, they’re connecting it to the present, with public facing scholarship that situates democracy’s history in today’s world.


Recent Faculty Publications

Book cover for Roads to Power, Roads to Crisis by Alec Zuercher Reichardt. The cover image is an engraving of soldiers on foot and on horseback outside a military fort.

Roads to Power, Roads to Crisis
Alec Zuercher Reichardt

Cover design for Choosing the Future by Karen Mossberger, Caroline J. Tolbert, and Scott J. LaCombe. The cover image is a gravel road diverging in two different directions.

Choosing the Future
Karen Mossberger, Caroline J. Tolbert, and Scott J. LaCombe

Other Titles

For a full list of books that residents of the fourth floor have published, visit the individual pages for each of our faculty members using the link below.


Our Faculty in the News

In addition to publishing academic work, our faculty also often offer expert analysis and historical context for constitutional democracy in contemporary practice. We’ll continue to add material to this section, but for now, enjoy one of Kinder Institute Director Jay Sexton’s many recent instances of commenting on the Monroe Doctrine’s relevance to contemporary American politics.

On the Monroe Doctrine

Jay Sexton sat down with Mo Rocca CBS Sunday Morning News to discuss the historical context for the United States’ incursion into Venezuela.

Prof. Jay Sexton, Kinder Institute Director

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