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The Politics of Ignoring: Protest Dynamics in Late Mubarak Egypt by Dina Bishara

January 12, 2016 Comments Off

I propose the concept of “ignoring” to capture situations in which government officials appear dismissive (either through inaction or contempt) of popular mobilization. The […]

The Influence of Private Health Care Financing on Citizen Trust in Government

January 11, 2016 Comments Off

by Melani Cammett, Julia Lynch and Gavril Bilev Using individual-level data from the 2008 European Social Survey and country-level health care financing data we analyze the influence of private financing of health care on political trust […]

Review Essay: Capital and Politics by Leo Panitch

January 8, 2016 Comments Off

Since its English language publication last year, Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century has taken the world by storm, offering hard evidence to show how class inequalities are endemic to the historical development of […]

Ripples from the First Wave: The Monarchical Origins of the Welfare State by Eileen McDonagh

January 7, 2016 Comments Off

Before the welfare state, people were protected from disabilities resulting from illness, old age, and other infirmities by care work provided within the family. When the state assumes responsibility for care-work tasks, in effect it […]

Jeffrey Isaac’s Editorial Introduction, Varieties of Empiricism in Political Science

January 5, 2016 Comments Off

Jeffrey Isaac’s editorial introduction to the December 2015 issue of Perspectives on Politics, “Varieties of Empiricism in Political Science,” reasserts the pluralistic foundations of our discipline. There are many ways of experiencing the political world, […]

Rights to the Realm: Reconsidering Western Political Development

December 28, 2015 Comments Off

by Alexander William Salter I explore how political property rights to revenues from governance relate to generality norms in governance. I do so by examining the rise of Western constitutional liberalism from the perspective of property […]

“A Trust That Cannot Be Delegated”: The Invention of Ratification Referenda

December 23, 2015 Comments Off

by Jeffrey A. Lenowitz A ratification referendum is a procedure in which framers submit a constitution to the people for binding approval before implementation. It is widespread, recommended, and affects the contents and reception of constitutions, […]

“A Black Sister to Massachusetts”: Latin America and the Fugitive Democratic Ethos of Frederick Douglass

December 21, 2015 Comments Off

by Juliet Hooker The aim of this article is to read Frederick Douglass as a theorist of democracy. It explores the hemispheric dimensions of Douglass’ political thought, especially in relation to multiracial democracy. Douglass is generally […]

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