Spotlight on CAPE

APE scholars convened at Yale to celebrate subfield successes & consider next steps on the intellectual agenda.

"Attention, Shoppers!" explains the political dynamics behind America's very, very large retailers.

In order to be effective, abundance policy must benefit and build power for working- and middle-class Americans rather than enriching and empowering concentrated economic interests and generating a populist backlash that undermines democracy.

In a new article in Energy Research and Social Science, Eric Scheuch accounts for unexpected ways public opinion shapes racial inequity in the siting of power plants in the U.S.

Read Cornell APE scholars Isabel Perera and Trevor Brown's new article--Why States Do or Do Not Privatize: Cross-Class Coalitions in the Public Sector--in the latest World Politics! (Check out the accompanying methods piece in the Fall 2024 QMMR, too: zenodo.org/records/14062872).

"Bridging the Blue Divide: The Democrats’ New Metro Coalition and the Unexpected Prominence of Redistribution," new work by APE scholars Jacob S. Hacker (Yale University), Amelia Malpas (Harvard University), Paul Pierson (University of California, Berkeley), and Sam Zacher (Yale University) is published in Perspectives on Politics.