Perspectives on Politics

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 […]

A Twenty Years’ Crisis? Rethinking the Cases for U.S. Economic Engagement with China By Dong Jung Kim, Korea University Structural realists accuse U.S. economic engagement with China as a mistake driven by liberal idealism and […]

“An Unacceptable Surrender of Fiscal Sovereignty”: The Neoliberal Turn to International Tax Arbitration By Martin Hearson, Institute of Development Studies, and Todd N. Tucker, The Roosevelt Institute The growth of inequality over the past half […]

Who Supports Political Violence? By Miles T. Armaly, University of Mississippi, and Adam M. Enders, University of Louisville The last few years have witnessed an increase in democratic “backsliding” in the United States—a decline in […]

Under the Veil of Democracy: What Do People Mean When They Say They Support Democracy? By Hannah S. Chapman, University of Oklahoma, Margaret C. Hanson, Arizona State University, Valery Dzutsati, University of Kansas, and Paul […]

Three Dimensions of Gendered Online Abuse: Analyzing Swedish MPs’ Experiences of Social Media By Josefina Erikson, Sandra Håkansson and Cecilia Josefsson, Uppsala University Women’s political representation has increased rapidly in the past few decades, but […]