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 […]

Causal Pathways of Rebel Defection from Negotiated Settlements: A Theory of Strategic Alliances By Chelsea Johnson, London School of Economics and Political Science While it is widely accepted that negotiated settlements are prone to breakdown, […]

Who Do You Trust? The Consequences of Partisanship and Trust for Public Responsiveness to COVID-19 Orders By Daniel A. N. Goldstein and Johannes Wiedemann, Yale University Non-uniform compliance with public policy by citizens can undermine […]

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 […]

Exit, Voice, Loyalty … or Deliberate Obstruction? Non-Collective Everyday Resistance under Oppression By Stephanie Dornschneider, University College Dublin In highly oppressive environments, collective resistance is very costly. Non-collective resistance constitutes a less risky alternative. Focusing […]

Examining Democratic and Republican National Committee Party Branding Activity, 1953–2012 By Boris Heersink, Fordham University Recent scholarship on the role of national party organizations in American politics—specifically, the Democratic and Republican National Committees—has argued that […]

No Right to Be Wrong: What Americans Think about Civil-Military Relations By Ronald R. Krebs, University of Minnesota, Robert Ralston, Harvard Kennedy School and Aaron Rapport, Georgia State University An influential model of democratic civil-military […]