Perspectives on Politics

The Realignment of Political Tolerance in the United States By Dennis Chong, University of Southern California, Jack Citrin, UC Berkeley Political Science, and Morris Levy, University of Southern California Studies conducted between the 1950s and […]

Party Types in the Age of Personalized Politics By Gideon Rahat, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Democracies in general and political parties in particular have undergone political personalization in recent decades. The power balance between politicians […]

Partisanship in the #MeToo Era By Mirya R. Holman, University of Houston, and Nathan P. Kalmoe, University of Wisconsin-Madison Partisanship structures mass politics by shaping the votes, policy views, and political perceptions of ordinary people. […]

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 […]