Perspectives on Politics

Bringing the Environment Back In: Overcoming the Tragedy of the Diffusion of the Commons Metaphor By Benjamin Cashore,  Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, and Steven Bernstein, University of Toronto […]

Do Voters Prefer Just Any Descriptive Representative? The Case of Multiracial Candidates By Danielle Casarez Lemi, Southern Methodist University Although scholars of representation have examined variation in voter support conditional on shared demographic traits, we […]

Still Not Important Enough? COVID-19 Policy Views and Vote Choice By Eric Guntermann and Gabriel Lenz, University of California, Berkeley Scholars have long been skeptical of citizens’ ability to vote on the basis of their […]

Revisiting Insularity and Expansion: A Theory Note By John M. Schuessler, Texas A&M University, Joshua Shifrinson, Boston University and David Blagden, University of Exeter What is the relationship between insularity—a state’s separation from other states […]

Will the Real Conspiracy Please Stand Up: Sources of Post-Communist Democratic Failure By Nikolay Marinov, University of Houston and Maria Popova, McGill University At the start of the pandemic, it looked like the biggest COVID-related […]

Turning Over the Keys: Public Prisons, Private Equity, and the Normalization of Markets Behind Bars By Jacob Swanson and Mary Fainsod Katzenstein, Cornell University In recent decades, public prisons and jails have increasingly outsourced operational […]

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

The Pandemic Policy U-Turn: Partisanship, Public Health, and Race in Decisions to Ease COVID-19 Social Distancing Policies in the United States By Christopher Adolph, Kenya Amano, Bree Bang-Jensen, Nancy Fullman, Beatrice Magistro, Grace Reinke, Rachel […]