Perspectives on Politics

The Kazanistan Papers: Reading the Muslim Question in the John Rawls Archives By Murad Idris, University of Virginia In The Law of Peoples (1999), John Rawls invented a fictional Muslim state that he called Kazanistan. The genealogy […]

Social Welfare Attitudes and Immigrants as a Target Population: Experimental Evidence By Jake Haselswerdt, University of Missouri What makes some Americans assume that social welfare programs will benefit immigrants rather than native-born Americans? How do […]

Affect and Autocracy: Emotions and Attitudes in Russia after Crimea By Samuel A. Greene,  Shepherd University and Graeme Robertson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Our understanding of modern authoritarianism lacks a satisfying explanation […]

Following the murders of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, among others, Black Lives Matter (BLM) is at the center of American politics. It is widespread, diverse, and the protests it leads have broad popular support […]

Flint, Michigan, and the Politics of Safe Drinking Water in the United States By Sara Hughes, University of Michigan Flint’s drinking water crisis has brought renewed⸺and needed⸺attention to the importance of safe drinking water in […]

Institutionalization of Ethnocultural Diversity and the Representation of European Muslims By Şener Aktürk, Koç University and Yury Katliarou, Koç University We seek to explain variation in the descriptive representation of Muslim minorities in national legislatures, […]