Perspectives on Politics

Rethinking Monetary Sovereignty: The Global Credit Money System and the State By Steffen Murau, Global Climate Forum, and Jens van ’t Klooster, University of Amsterdam We propose a new conception of monetary sovereignty that acknowledges […]

Polarization of the Rich: The New Democratic Allegiance of Affluent Americans and the Politics of Redistribution By Sam Zacher, Yale University Affluent Americans used to vote for Republican politicians. Now they vote for Democrats. In […]

Party Systems, Inequality, and Redistribution By Vincent Mauro, Cornell University Political parties have long been theorized as a key political institution that links society with the formal political system, and thus have often featured prominently […]

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

Motivation Alignment, Historical Cleavages, and Women’s Suffrage in Latin America By Isabel Castillo, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Calculations of the electoral effects of incorporating new voters and beliefs on how inclusion alters gender hierarchies […]

Misinformation in Experimental Political Science By Matthew Barnfield, University of Essex The American Political Science Association recently cautioned against the use of misinformation (giving research participants false information about the state of the world) in research with […]

Lost in Translation? Class Cleavage Roots and Left Electoral Mobilization in Western Europe By Vincenzo Emanuele, LUISS Guido Carli I investigate whether the strength of the class cleavage in Western Europe still “translates” into the […]

In Government We Trust: Implicit Political Trust and Regime Support in China By Haifeng Huang, Chanita Intawan, University of California, Merced, and Stephen P. Nicholson, University of Georgia High levels of self-reported trust in government […]