Perspectives on Politics

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 […]

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 […]