Perspectives on Politics

Populism’s Threat to Democracy: Comparative Lessons for the United States By Kurt Weyland, University of Texas at Austin How grave is the threat that populist leaders pose to democracy? To elucidate the prospects of the United […]

When Conflicts Do Not Overspill: The Case of Jordan By Petter Nesser, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment and Henrik Gråtrud, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment How can vulnerable states adjacent to countries embroiled in civil war avoid […]

The Militarization of Law Enforcement: Evidence from Latin America By Gustavo A. Flores-Macías, Cornell University and Jessica Zarkin, Cornell University What are the political consequences of militarizing law enforcement? Across the world, law enforcement has become increasingly militarized […]

The Gender Gap Is a Race Gap: Women Voters in US Presidential Elections By Jane Junn, University of Southern California, and Natalie Masouka, University of California Los Angeles Scholarship on women voters in the United States has […]

“Tough Love”: The Political Theology of Civil Disobedience By Alexander Livingston, Cornell University Love is a key concept in the theory and history of civil disobedience yet it has been purposefully neglected in recent debates […]

Testing Theories about Advocacy and Public Policy By Paul Burstein, University of Washington, Seattle One critical way that social scientists contribute to our understanding of policy change is developing and testing theories to explain the impact […]

Representation, Bicameralism, Political Equality, and Sortition: Reconstituting the Second Chamber as a Randomly Selected Assembly By Arash Abizadeh, McGill University The two traditional justifications for bicameralism are that a second legislative chamber serves a legislative-review function […]