Perspectives on Politics

Is the American Public Really Turning Away from Democracy? Backsliding and the Conceptual Challenges of Understanding Public Attitudes By Amel Ahmed, UMass Amherst Recent scholarship has warned that the American public is turning away from […]

Formal Models of Authoritarian Regimes: A Critique By Adam Przeworski, New York University The very idea that authoritarian regimes (“autocracies”) may enjoy popular support is hard to fathom for democrats. Models of authoritarian regimes often […]

Donald Trump and the Lie By Kevin Arceneaux, Sciences Po Paris and Rory Truex, Princeton University Why do some immigrant diasporas in the United States (U.S.) establish foreign policy interest groups while others do not? […]

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 […]