Perspectives on Politics

Censoring the Intellectual Public Space in China: What Topics Are Not Allowed and Who Gets Blacklisted? By Xiaojun Yan and La Li, University of Hong Kong Censorship is one of the main forms of political coercion […]

Critical Race Theory: How Policy Language Differentially Engages Symbolic Racism and Partisanship By Mia Carbone, University of California, Los Angeles, Allison Harell, Université du Québec à Montréal and Stuart Soroka, University of California, Los Angeles […]

Does Political Diversity Inhibit Blood Donations? By Sung Eun Kim, Korea University and Krzysztof Pelc, Oxford University Does political diversity affect the prevalence of selfless behavior across a society? According to a recurrent finding from […]

Embracing the Crisis of Research Design: How the Collapse of Case Selection in the Field Can Uncover New Discoveries By Rachel A. Schwartz, University of Oklahoma Political science has seen a welcome increase in guidance […]

Empowering Digital Democracy By Roberta Fischli, University of St. Gallen, and James Muldoon, Essex Business School This article examines the role of digital technology in enabling and enhancing democratic practices and forms of governance. It contributes […]

Macropartisanship Revisited By Donald P. Green, Columbia University, Brian T. Hamel, University of North Texas and Michael G. Miller, Barnard College Canonical work argues that macropartisanship—the aggregate distribution of Democrats and Republicans in the country […]

Sequential Polarization: The Development of the Rural-Urban Political Divide, 1976–2020 By Trevor E. Brown and Suzanne Mettler, Cornell University As recently as the early 1990s, Americans living in rural and urban areas voted similarly in […]

Strategically Hijacking Victimhood: A Political Communication Strategy in the Discourse of Viktor Orbán and Donald Trump By Jessie Barton Hronešová, University College London, and Daniel Kreiss, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill This article […]