Perspectives on Politics

When Serving the Public Interest Generates Private Gains: Private Actor Governance and Two-Sided Digital Markets By Guillaume Beaumier, l’École Nationale d’Administration Publique and Abraham Newman, Georgetown University From speech to privacy, broad public interests are […]

Race, Voice, and Authority in Discussion Groups By Elizabeth Mitchell Elder, Stanford University, Christopher F. Karpowitz, Brigham Young University and Tali Mendelberg, Princeton University Few studies examine how often people of color voice their views […]

Proportional Non-Voter Sortition: Legislative Inclusion for Non-Voting Citizens By Marcus Carlsen Häggrot, Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Centre for Political Research and Chiara Destri, Università degli Studi di Milano Statale Democratic electoral systems characteristically take a […]

Policy over Protest: Experimental Evidence on the Drivers of Support for Movement Parties By Dan Mercea and Felipe G. Santos, University of London Across the world, political parties are incorporating social movement strategies and frames. […]

Oppose Autocracy without Support for Democracy: A Study of Non-Democratic Critics in China By Haemin Jee, United States Military Academy, West Point and Tongtong Zhang, American University Opponents of authoritarian regimes are often assumed to […]

Liberal Democracy Reexamined: Leo Strauss on Alexis de Tocqueville By Raúl Rodríguez, Michigan State University This article explores Leo Strauss’s thoughts on Alexis de Tocqueville in his 1954 “Natural Right” course transcript. One of the […]

Left Governmental Power and the Reduction of Inequalities in Western Europe (1871–2020) By Vincenzo Emanuele and Federico Trastulli, LUISS Guido Carli Despite considerable attention in the literature, existing studies analyzing the effect of left governmental power […]

Inequality, Redistribution, and the Global Surge in Populism By Anne Wolf, University of Oxford, Kathrin Bachleitner, University of Salzburg and Sarah Bufkin, University of Oxford Economic inequality and redistribution are among the oldest political economy […]