Perspectives on Politics

The Civic Voluntarism of ‘Custodial Citizens’: Involuntary Criminal Justice Contact, Associational Life, and Political Participation by Michael Leo Owens,  Emory University and Hannah Walker, Rutgers University  A growing body of research explores the influence of involuntary criminal justice […]

It’s the End of the World and They Know It: How Dystopian Fiction Shapes Political Attitudes by Calvert W. Jones, University of Maryland, College Park and Celia Paris, University of Toronto Given that the fictional narratives found in […]

The Ecclesiastical Roots of Representation and Consent by Jørgen Møller, Aarhus University Recent attempts to explain the development of medieval representative institutions have neglected a long-standing insight of medieval and legal historians: Political representation and rule […]

Sexual Harassment: Performances of Gender, Sexuality, and Power by Virginia Sapiro, Boston University Sexual harassment in schools and workplaces is a venerable phenomenon. It is impossible to imagine documenting the first time a male boss persistently […]

Partners in Crime: An Empirical Evaluation of the CIA Rendition, Detention, and Interrogation Program by Averell Schmidt, Harvard Kennedy School and Kathryn Sikkink, Harvard Kennedy School In the years following the attacks of 9/11, the CIA adopted […]

Disrupting Regulation, Regulating Disruption: The Politics of Uber in the United States by Ruth Berins Collier, University of California, Berkeley, V.B. Dubal, University of California Hastings College of the Law and Christopher L. Carter,University of California, […]

The Politics of Attributing Blame for Cyberattacks and the Costs of Uncertainty by Marcus Schulzke,  University of York Attribution is one of the most serious challenges associated with cyberattacks. It is often difficult to determine […]

Democratic Backsliding and Acadmic Freedom in Hungary by Zsolt Enyedi, Central European University The Hungarian government’s discriminatory actions against the Central European University constitute one of the most prominent conflicts between an academic institution and a […]