Perspectives on Politics

Blame Shifting in Autocracies following Large-Scale Disasters: Evidence from Turkey By Edward Goldring,  Jonas Willibald Schmid and Fulya Apaydin Large-scale disasters, particularly when handled poorly, often spark popular outrage and threaten an autocrat’s hold on […]

Constituency Juries: Holding Elected Representatives Accountable through Sortition By Bruno Leipold This article proposes the creation of constituency juries to enhance accountability and check oligarchy in representative governments. Constituency juries would be made up of […]

Great Power Cyberpolitics and Global Cyberhegemony By Yavuz Akdağ As interstate cyberconflict intensifies, the intersection of national security, cybersecurity, and International Relations (IR) theory has emerged as a critical venue for scholarly inquiry. Yet due […]

Film-Making the Nation Great Again: Audio-visualizing History in the Authoritarian Toolkit By Lisel Hintz and Jonas Bergan Draege How can populist authoritarian incumbents justify remaining in power when the golden age they promised remains unrealized? […]

Off-Balance: How US Courts Privilege Conservative Policy Outcomes By Brian Highsmith, Maya Sen and Kathleen Thelen A growing literature has challenged some of the more influential accounts regarding the role of courts in the development […]

Right to Work or Right to Vote? Labor Policy and American Democracy By Paul Frymer, Jacob M. Grumbach and Charlotte Hill There is growing attention to the role of organized labor in maintaining and expanding […]

The Safety Net and the Gig Economy: Policy Attitudes and Political Participation By Juhyun Bae and Jake Haselswerdt The emergence of the so-called gig economy has reshaped the labor market and, potentially, the politics of […]

The Future as a Democratic Resource By Jonathan White Beliefs about the future shape attitudes, experiences, and priorities in the present. This article explores the relationship between democracy and the expected world to come. As […]