Perspectives on Politics

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 […]

Norm-Based Governance for Severe Collective Action Problems: Lessons from Climate Change and COVID-19 By Leigh Raymond, Purdue University, Daniel Kelly, Purdue University and Erin P. Hennes, University of Missouri The world has surpassed three million deaths […]

Care for a Profit? By Stephanie Collins, University of Manchester and Luara Ferracioli, University of Sydney We vindicate the widespread intuition that there is something morally problematic with for-profit corporations providing care to young children […]

Bringing the Environment Back In: Overcoming the Tragedy of the Diffusion of the Commons Metaphor By Benjamin Cashore, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and Steven Bernstein, University of Toronto Contrary to calls for increased […]

Policy Feedback and Interdependence in American Federalism: Evidence from Rooftop Solar Politics By Samuel Trachtman, University of California, Berkeley Scholars have long understood the American states as “laboratories of democracy,” exploring how mechanisms of learning […]

Short of Suspension: How Suspension Warnings Can Reduce Hate Speech on Twitter By Mustafa Mikdat Yildirim,Jonathan Nagler,Richard Bonneau and Joshua A. Tucker, New York University Debates around the effectiveness of high-profile Twitter account suspensions and […]