Perspectives on Politics

Are Stealth Democrats Really Committed to Democracy? Process Preferences Revisited By Andrew J. Bloeser, Allegheny College, Tarah Williams, Allegheny College, Candaisy Crawford, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Brian M. Harward, Harvard University Scholarship […]

A Man’s World? The Policy Representation of Women and Men in a Comparative Perspective By Mikael Persson, University of Gothenburg, Wouter Schakel, University of Amsterdam, and Anders Sundell, University of Gothenburg Are the preferences of […]

Deepening or Endangering Democracy: Demonstrations and Institutions under Representative Government By Robert M. Fishman, Carlos III University Do demonstrations tend to deepen or endanger democracy? I examine this theme of major debate between scholars and among political actors, analyzing […]

Social Preferences: Measuring Private, Public, and Group Preferences through Focus Groups By Summer Lindsey, Rutgers University How does the social nature of focus groups shape what researchers learn about preferences? This article delineates three preference […]

Misinformation in Experimental Political Science By Matthew Barnfield, Queen Mary University of London The American Political Science Association recently cautioned against the use of misinformation (giving research participants false information about the state of the […]

Rethinking Monetary Sovereignty: The Global Credit Money System and the State By Steffen Murau, Global Climate Forum and Jens van ’t Klooster, University of Amsterdam We propose a new conception of monetary sovereignty that acknowledges […]

Large-N Qualitative Analysis (LNQA): Causal Generalization in Case Study and Multimethod Research By Gary Goertz, University of Notre Dame and Stephan Haggard, University of California San Diego We describe an emerging research practice that we […]