Perspectives on Politics

Donald Trump and the Lie By Kevin Arceneaux, Center for Political Research at Sciences Po Paris and Rory Truex, Princeton University The legitimacy of democratically elected governments rests in part on widespread acceptance of the […]

From Black Lives Matter to EndSARS: Women’s Socio-Political Power and the Transnational Movement for Black Lives By Adaugo Pamela Nwakanma, Harvard University The relationship between Black Lives Matter (BLM) and anti-police brutality movements abroad reveals […]

Empire, Popular Sovereignty, and the Problem of Self-and-Other-Determination By Inés Valdez, The Ohio State University This article develops W. E. B. Du Bois’s notion of democratic despotism to illustrate the entanglement of popular sovereignty and […]

The Retreat of the West By Peter Trubowitz, London School of Economics and Brian Burgoon, University of Amsterdam The West is turning inward. Donald Trump’s presidency, Britain’s decision to leave the European Union, and the […]

Understanding the Global Patrimonial Wave By Stephen E. Hanson, The College of William & Mary and Jeffrey S. Kopstein, University of California, Irvine The past decade has witnessed a resurgence of patrimonial rule not only […]

Three Reasons for Hospitality: Care for Others, Care for the World, and Care of the Self By Abigail Taylor and Alexandre Lefebvre, The University of Sydney We seek to answer a deceptively simple question: why […]

Rethinking the Study of Electoral Politics in the Developing World: Reflections on the Indian Case By Adam Michael Auerbach, American University, Jennifer Bussell, University of California, Berkeley, Simon Chauchard, Leiden University, Francesca R. Jensenius, University of […]

Forging, Bending, and Breaking: Enacting the “Illiberal Playbook” in Hungary and Poland By Andrea L. P. Pirro, Scuola Normale Superiore and Ben Stanley, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities In recent years, Central and […]