Journals

Help or Harm: The Human Security Effects of International NGOs

Carew Boulding, University of Colorado Amanda Murdie’s new book takes on the difficult and important question of whether international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) are actually doing more harm than good in their global efforts to promote […]

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Earth System Governance: World Politics in the Anthropocene

John S. Dryzek, University of Canberra Earth system governance is an increasingly popular concept that captures multi-level governance in social-ecological systems, a large multi-national project that joins hundreds of researchers, and the title of this […]

American Political Science Review

Preventing and Responding to Dissent: The Observational Challenges of Explaining Strategic Repression

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 […]

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Critical Dialogue: Democratizing Global Climate Governance

Frank Biermann, Utrecht University Thirty years of national and international climate policy have not led to sufficient reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The intergovernmental negotiation process, in particular, is widely criticized. While thousands of diplomats, […]

American Political Science Review

Deliver the Vote! Micromotives and Macrobehavior in Electoral Fraud

Deliver the Vote! Micromotives and Macrobehavior in Electoral Fraud Ashlea Rundlett, University of Illinois Most electoral fraud is not conducted centrally by incumbents but rather locally by a multitude of political operatives. How does an […]