Perspectives on Politics

The Emergence of Right-Wing Partisanship in Poland, 1993–2018: Reconciling Demand-Side Explanations of the Success of Illiberalism By Marcin Ślarzyński, Polish Academy of Sciences Scholars studying the electoral breakthroughs of right-wing illiberalism have arrived at two general […]

Varieties of Indoctrination: The Politicization of Education and the Media around the World By Anja Neundorf, University of Glasgow, Eugenia Nazrullaeva, University of California, Los Angeles, Ksenia Northmore-Ball, Boston College, Katerina Tertytchnaya, University of Oxford […]

What Is It Like To Be a Partisan? Measures of Partisanship and Its Value for Democracy By Kevin J. Elliott, Yale University What is it like to be a partisan? How do individuals experience their […]

“The Pandemic Was a Global Exam, and Our Country Came in First”: Autocratic Performance Legitimacy in Saudi Arabia By Bruno Schmidt-Feuerheerd, University of Cambridge Existing scholarship establishes that authoritarian regimes make claims about their legitimacy […]

APSA is happy to announce that Shmuel Nili, Associate Professor at Northwestern University, is joining the Perspectives on Politics editorial team as Associate Editor in Political Theory. Shmuel Nili is an Associate Professor of political […]

A Boundary of White Inclusion: The Role of Religion in Ethnoracial Assignment By Amanda Sahar d’Urso, Georgetown University How do White Americans operationalize Whiteness? This article argues that religion, in conjunction with country of origin, […]

Billionaire Politicians: A Global Perspective By Daniel Krcmaric, Stephen C. Nelson and Andrew Roberts, Northwestern University We introduce an original dataset of formal political participation for over 2,000 individuals included in the Forbes Billionaires List. […]