American Political Science Review

Non-domination or Practices of Freedom? French Muslim Women, Foucault, and The Full Veil Ban Inés Valdez, Ohio State University This article proposes a conception of freedom understood as practices. Based on Michel Foucault’s work on the […]

Liberal Integrity and Foreign Entanglement Shmuel Nili, Yale University My aim in this article is to show that there is distinctive normative value to thinking about a liberal polity as an agent with integrity that can […]

Religious Minorities and Resistance to Genocide: The Collective Rescue of Jews in the Netherlands during the Holocaust Robert Braun, Cornell University and Northwestern University This article hypothesizes that minority groups are more likely to protect […]

Experimentation and Persuasion in Political Organizations Alexander V. Hirsch, California Institute of Technology Different beliefs about how to achieve shared goals are common in political organizations such as government agencies, campaigns, and NGOs. However, the consequences […]

The Rhetoric of Sincerity: Cicero and Smith on Propriety and Political Context Daniel J. Kapust and Michelle A. Schwarze, University of Wisconsin-Madison The study of rhetoric has recently undergone a revival in political theory as […]

Beyond Black and White: Biracial Attitudes in Contemporary U.S. Politics Lauren D. Davenport, Stanford University  The 2000 U.S. census was the first in which respondents were permitted to self-identify with more than one race.  A decade later, […]

Preventing and Responding to Dissent: The Observational Challenges of Explaining Strategic Repression Emily Hencken Ritter and Courtenay R. Conrad, University of California, Merced Although scholarly consensus suggests that dissent causes repression, the behaviors are endogenous: governments […]