Perspectives on Politics

What Stymies Action on Climate Change? Religious Institutions, Marginalization, and Efficacy in Kenya By Lauren Honig, Boston College, Amy Erica Smith, Iowa State University, and Jaimie Bleck, University of Notre Dame Addressing climate change requires […]

Vigilantes and the State: Understanding Violence through a Security Assemblages Approach By Rebecca Tapscott, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies The notion that states pursue a monopoly over the use of force rings […]

Territorial Rights for Individuals, States, or Pueblos? Answers from Indigenous Land Struggles in Colonial Spanish America By Paulina Ochoa Espejo, Haverford College Who should have rights to territory? Dominant political theories hold that either individuals […]

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 […]