Perspectives on Politics

How Police Behavior Shapes Perceptions of Protests: Evidence from Black Lives Matter By Jasmine English, Reed College, Ariel White, MIT, and Laurel Eckhouse, University of Denver As Black Lives Matter protests swept across the United […]

Gendered Perceptions of Legislative Influence By Jaclyn Kaslovsky, Washington University, Tabitha Koch, Rice University, and Michael P. Olson, Washington University Women legislators face a variety of gendered barriers both outside and inside the legislature. Yet, […]

Does Hard Propaganda (Also) Work in Democracies? Evidence from the United States By Philipp M. Lutscher, University of Oslo, and Karsten Donnay, University of Zurich In authoritarian regimes, governments regularly use overt and heavy-handed visual […]

Chicago Police Torture and the Limits of Human Rights Enforcement in Liberal Democracies By Mark S. Berlin, George Washington University From 1972 to 1991, a network of Chicago Police detectives used torture to force confessions […]

Beyond Changing Minds: Raising the Issue Importance of Expanding Legal Immigration By Alexander Kustov, University of North Carolina at Charlotte How can public opinion change in a pro-immigration direction? Recent studies suggest that those who […]

The Bureaucratic Origins of Political Theory: Administrative Labor in the “Other Half” of the History of Political Thought By Douglas I. Thompson, University of South Carolina The earliest works of political theory precede Athenian democracy—the […]

Situated Civility: Anna Julia Cooper and Hannah Gadsby on Politeness and Public-Mindedness By Andrew Schaap and Lars Tønder, University of Copenhagen In public life, the problem of civility is often presented as a choice over […]

The Study of Intraparty Frictions: Conceptual Reflections on Preference Heterogeneity, Disagreement, and Conflict By Nicole Bolleyer, LMU Munich and Ann-Kristin Kölln, University of Gothenburg Every complex organization is sometimes marked by preference heterogeneity, disagreement, and […]