Perspectives on Politics

On the Outside Looking In: Ethnography and Authoritarianism By David R. Stroup, University of Manchester and J. Paul Goode, Carleton University Despite the common assumption that ethnography is most successful where researchers achieve recognition as […]

Immigration and Public Support for Political Systems in Europe By Christopher Claassen, University of Glasgow Immigration and growing diversity have been linked with pathologies such as lower social capital, the rise of authoritarian populists, intergroup […]

Fiddling while Democracy Burns: Partisan Reactions to Weak Democracy in Latin America By Matthew M. Singer, University of Connecticut Democracy is weakened when citizens and elites do not criticize actions or actors that undermine its […]

Exhaustion, Adversity, and Repression: Emotional Attrition in High-Risk Activism By Alejandro M. Peña, University of York, Larissa Meier, Scuola Normale Superiore di Firenze, and Alice M. Nah, University of York The article proposes the notion […]

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

Conducting the Heavenly Chorus: Constituent Contact and Provoked Petitioning in Congress By Geoffrey Henderson, University of California, Santa Barbara, Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Columbia University, Matto Mildenberger, University of California, Santa Barbara and Leah C. Stokes, University […]

Activism and Objectivity in Political Research By Michael L. Frazer, University of East Anglia There are two opposed views on the proper relationship between academic research and political activism. The first argues that academics who […]