Perspectives on Politics

Clarifying the “People Like Me”: Racial Efficacy and Political Behavior By Davin L. Phoenix, University of Michigan and Nathan K. Chan, Loyola Marymount University Political efficacy, or a sense of confidence that “people like me” […]

Deservingness and the Politics of Student Debt Relief By Mallory E. SoRelle, Duke University and Serena Laws, Trinity College As the pandemic accelerated calls to provide relief to millions of student borrowers, President Biden announced […]

Economic Inequality and Political Responsiveness: A Systematic Review By Mads Andreas Elkjær, University of Copenhagen, and Michael Baggesen Klitgaard, Aalborg University Do political outcomes respond more strongly to the preferences of the rich? In an […]

Inverting the Lens: White Privilege Denial in Evaluations of Politicians and Policy By Reagan Dobbs, University of California, Merced and Stephen P. Nicholson, University of Georgia Public understandings of race in the United States have […]

Other People’s Terrorism: Ideology and the Perceived Legitimacy of Political Violence By Julie M. Norman, London’s Global University When do Americans view political violence as legitimate? In this article, I use experimental methods to examine […]

Party Systems, Inequality, and Redistribution By Vincent Mauro, University of Michigan Political parties have long been theorized as a key political institution that links society with the formal political system, and thus have often featured […]

Polarization of the Rich: The New Democratic Allegiance of Affluent Americans and the Politics of Redistribution By Sam Zacher, Yale University Affluent Americans used to vote for Republican politicians. Now they vote for Democrats. In […]

Scattered Attacks: The Collective Dynamics of Lone-Actor Terrorism By Stefan Malthaner, Aarhus University, Francis O’Connor, Wageningen University, and Lasse Lindekilde, Aarhus University The proliferation of lone-actor terrorist attacks over the past decade has led to […]