Compared to What? Judicial Review and Other Veto Points in Contemporary Democratic Theory David Watkins and Scott Lemieux Many democratic and jurisprudential theorists have too often uncritically accepted Alexander Bickel’s notion of “the countermajoritarian difficulty” […]
Developmental Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Politics: Fragmented Citizenship in a Fragmented State Stephen M. Engel Responding to recent criticism that American political development (APD) has yet to fully engage with both contemporary and historical […]
Technique Trumps Relevance: The Professionalization of Political Science and the Marginalization of Security Studies Michael Desch explains the disconnect between the discipline’s self-image as balancing rigor with relevance with the reality of how political scientists […]
John H. Romani, age 90, of Ann Arbor, Michigan passed away on July 8 of natural causes. After serving in World War II, he received Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Government from the University of […]
This symposium addresses a longstanding and urgent question: how to diversify leadership and end discrimination in academe. While the symposium targets the political science profession, the new strategies advanced here are likely to […]
Lecture-capture software allows instructors to record their class presentations for students to review as necessary. Although this technology has long been considered too expensive for large-scale use, it is quickly becoming ubiquitous and deployable using […]
For a More Public Political Science The new issue of Perspectives on Politics features a special introductory essay by editor Jeffrey C. Isaac, “For a More Public Political Science.” Isaac criticizes what he calls “neopositivism” […]
The author presents five laws of politics. (1) All governments, certainly in dictatorships but also in democracies, can count on the votes of only a minority of the electorate, even if in democracies that […]
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