Emil Friedman

In Northern Ireland, Ideological Binaries Give Way to Ebbs and Flows of Democratic Backsliding by Emil Friedman @ Yale University

The story of modern democracy in Northern Ireland is a story of intense path dependency. And at the start of that path was the Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement of April 1998, which introduced two...

In New Haven, Homogeneity Trumps Deliberation by Emil Friedman @ Yale University

Yale University

“Do you have the time?” I looked up from my iPhone, startled, and scanned him: 50-something, tattered clothes, messy hair. One arm. “It’s 6:45,” I replied. The second New Haven Board of Alders...