Perspectives on Politics

Diasporic Foreign Policy Interest Groups in the United States: Democracy, Conflict, and Political Entrepreneurship By Shubha Kamala Prasad, Hertie School and Filip Savatic, Georgetown University Why do some immigrant diasporas in the United States (U.S.) […]

Darwin in India: Anticolonial Evolutionism at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century By Inder S. Marwah, McMaster University This article examines how Indian anticolonialists drew on Darwinism and evolutionary theory to resist British imperialism at […]

City Size and Public Service Access: Evidence from Brazil and Indonesia By Alison E. Post, UC Berkeley, and Nicholas Kuipers, National University of Singapore Most global population growth over the next two decades is projected […]

Algorithmic Governance and the International Politics of Big Tech By Swati Srivastava, Purdue University Big technology companies like Facebook, Google, and Amazon amass global power through classification algorithms. These algorithms use unsupervised and semi-supervised machine […]

No Right to Be Wrong: What Americans Think about Civil-Military Relations By Ronald R. Krebs, University of Minnesota, Robert Ralston, University of Birmingham, and Aaron Rapport, University of Minnesota An influential model of democratic civil-military […]

Creative Learning and Policy Ideas: The Global Rise of Green Growth By Bentley B. Allan, Johns Hopkins University and Jonas O. Meckling, University of California, Berkeley Ideas play an important role in policy change. Theories […]

Understanding Rural Identities and Environmental Policy Attitudes in America By Emily P. Diamond, University of Rhode Island Attitudinal differences between urban and rural voters in America have been in the spotlight in recent years and […]

Political Strategies to Overcome Climate Policy Obstructionism By Sugandha Srivastav, University of Oxford and Ryan Rafaty, World Bank Group Great socioeconomic transitions bring about the demise of certain industries and the rise of others. The […]