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Rogers M. Smith

Rogers M. Smith is Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Stories of Peoplehood.

Articles

Building a national identity may require offering special accomodations to diverse groups, including those we don't agree with.

Rogers M. Smith

Forum Responses

Joseph Carens’s argument for amnesty for irregular migrants builds on his longstanding and important contention that liberal democracies are required by their own principles to provide broad opportunities for immigration and citizenship....
Rogers M. Smith
Stephen Ansolabehere’s proposals for a federal initiative to research secure and reliable voting technologies and to develop, in particular, a four-stage architecture to promote voting accuracy, secrecy, and efficiency, all seem to...
Rogers M. Smith
Owen Fiss is right to argue that the equal protection clause should be read to ban not only discrimination but also “the creation of a near-caste structure.” He is also right to...
Rogers M. Smith

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