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Fenwick McKelvey, "SimPolitics: America’s Quest to Solve Politics with Computers" (M…

7/17/2026 • 54 min

This book is available open access. For more than six decades, the public has been promised that computers will revolutionize politics, both nationally and internationally. In SimPolitics: America’s Quest to Solve Politics with Computers (MIT Press, 2026), Dr. Fenwick McKelvey traces the entwined history of politics and computers from the 1960s to the late… Play episode

Christopher M. Federico et al., "The Authoritarian Divide: Partisan Identi…
Luna Sabastian, "Fascism in India: Race, Caste, and Hindutva" (Harvard UP,…
Dan Altman, "Taking Territory: The Persistence of Conquest Since 1945" (Co…
Democratic Backsliding and Resistance: Poland’s Civil Society, Electoral S…
The Emerging Anocracy: AI, Tech Oligarchs, and the Future of Democracy wit…
Diana T. Kudaibergen, "What Does It Mean to Be Kazakhstani?: Power, Identi…
Vignesh Rajahmani, "The Dravidian Pathway: The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (…
What are the Limits of Political Speech? A Conversation with Erik J. Olsen
Campaigning, Parties and the Digital in Contemporary Politics
Martina Baradel, "21st Century Yakuza: Death of Japanese Organised Crime" …
Carrie LeVan, "Neighborhoods Matter: How Place and People Affect Political…
Anna Terwiel offers A Moment of No to the Prison-Industrial Complex (JP)
Thomas Paine at the Semiquincentennial: A Conversation with Gregory Claeys
Jonathan Schneer, "Nine Days in May: The General Strike Of 1926" (Oxford U…
The Once and Future Republic: On Cicero, Locke, and the Making of America …
Daniel Krcmaric, "Above the Law" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Cyanne E. Loyle, "Escaping Justice: Impunity for State Crimes in the Age o…
Infrastructure, Nickel, and the Politics of Polyalignment in Indonesia
Why Democracy’s Troubles Should Come as No Surprise
Gareth Doherty, "Landscape Fieldwork: How Engaging the World Can Change De…
Jeremy J. Holland, "The Political Worldviews of American Social Movements:…
Jonathan Daly, "The Man Who Knew Russia: Richard Pipes, Humanist and Cold …
Alena Ledeneva, "Russian Pendulum: Paradoxes, Practices and Patterns" (UCL…
Alex Boodrookas, "Comrades Estranged: Labor and Citizenship in the Twentie…
Anna O. Law, "Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship: African A…
Legacy of the Ancient Greeks: On Classical and Modern Democracy with Josia…
AI, Algocracy, and Democracy's Challenging Road Ahead with Andrew Sorota
Richard Bennet and Alexander Noyes, "War at Arm's Length: How America Can …
Karine Premont and Christopher J. Devine eds., "Second in Command: Reevalu…
Robert Templer, "The Shah's Party: And the Iranian Revolution That Followe…
Arlene W. Saxonhouse, "Athenian Democracy: Modern Mythmakers and Ancient T…
Brexit Britain: 10 Years on from the Referendum
Margaret O’Mara on the Clintons, Tech, and Memory
The Diasporic Hindu Right with Savera
Courtney Rickert McCaffrey et al., "Geostrategy By Design: How to Manage G…
Alex Law, "The Roots of Sociology: Scottish Enlightenment and the Civilisi…
The Predictable Shock of Brexit: Cultural Dissonance and the Rise of Popul…
Gary Hoover, "Ladder or Lottery: Economic Promises and the Reality of Who …
India’s 2026 State Elections and Indian Democracy?
H. A. Drake, "The Wisdom of the Ancients: Four Ideas That Changed the Worl…
The Instigators
Why Elected Leaders Subvert Democracy
Billionaire Backlash: Can It Help Save Democracy?
Why Elected Leaders Subvert Democracy
Julia F. Irwin, "Catastrophic Diplomacy: US Foreign Disaster Assistance in…
Oscar Winberg, "Archie Bunker for President: How One Television Show Remad…
Erica Bornstein, "A Revolution of Rules: The Regulatory Reform of India's …
Nathan K. Finney, "Orchestrating Power: The American Associational State i…
Debating the Constitution: On Originalism's Most Pressing Quarrels with Sh…

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