Journals

State Support for Religion and Government Legitimacy in Christian-Majority Countries By Onathan Fox, Bar-ilan University, and Jori Breslawski, Tel Aviv University Most assume that when governments support a religion, they do so in the hope […]

Slavery and Oratory: Frederick Douglass in the History of Rhetoric By Rob Goodman, Toronto Metropolitan University The antislavery and antiracist oratory of Frederick Douglass is a powerful case study of the appropriation and transformation of […]

Revolutionary Violence and Counterrevolution By Killian Clarke, Georgetown University What type of revolutions are most vulnerable to counterrevolutions? I argue that violent revolutions are less likely than nonviolent ones to be reversed because they produce […]

Ideology Critique without Morality: A Radical Realist Approach By Ugur Aytac, Utrecht University and Enzo Rossi, University of Amsterdam What is the point of ideology critique? Prominent Anglo-American philosophers recently proposed novel arguments for the […]

How Exile Shapes Online Opposition: Evidence from Venezuela By Ane Esberg, University of Pennsylvania, and Alexandra A. Siegel, University of Colorado Boulder How does exile affect online dissent? By internationalizing activists’ networks and removing them […]

How Do Politicians Bargain? Evidence from Ultimatum Games with Legislators in Five Countries By Lior Sheffer, Tel Aviv University, Peter John Loewen, University of Toronto, Stefaan Walgrave, University of Antwerp, Stefanie Bailer, University of Basel, […]

Hobbes and Hats By Teresa M. Bejan, University of Oxford There is no more analyzed image in the history of political thought than the frontispiece of Hobbes’s Leviathan (1651), yet the tiny figures making up the giant […]

Emotional Sensibility: Exploring the Methodological and Ethical Implications of Research Participants’ Emotions By Wendy Pearlman, Northwestern University Although political science increasingly investigates emotions as variables, it often ignores emotions’ larger significance due to their inherence […]