Perspectives on Politics

Examining Democratic and Republican National Committee Party Branding Activity, 1953–2012 By Boris Heersink, Fordham University Recent scholarship on the role of national party organizations in American politics—specifically, the Democratic and Republican National Committees—has argued that […]

Paper Stones Revisited: Class Voting, Unionization and the Electoral Decline of the Mainstream Left By Line Rennwald and Jonas Pontusson, Université de Genève Relying on post-election surveys, we analyze how class and union membership condition […]

Working Class Blues? By Michael Bernhard, University of Florida, Gainesville and Daniel O’Neill, University of California, Los Angeles We have the honor and privilege to publish this year’s Presidential Address, “Crises, Race, Acknowledgment: The Centrality […]

What Stymies Action on Climate Change? Religious Institutions, Marginalization, and Efficacy in Kenya By Lauren Honig, Boston College, Amy Erica Smith, Iowa State University and Jaimie Bleck, University of Notre Dame Addressing climate change requires […]

Racial Projections in Perspective: Public Reactions to Narratives about Rising Diversity By Morris Levy, University of Southern California and Dowell Myers, University of Southern California Threatened reactions to news about the approach of a racial majority-minority […]

Exploiting a Crisis: Abortion Activism and the COVID-19 Pandemic By Kate Hunt, Indiana University How do social movement organizations involved in abortion debates leverage a global crisis to pursue their goals? In recent months there […]

Crises, Race, Acknowledgement: The Centrality of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics to the Future of Political Science By Paula D. McClain, Duke University The United States, and the world, is in the grips of a coronavirus […]

From Pathology to ‘Born Perfect’: Science, Law, and Citizenship in American LGBTQ+ Advocacy By Joanna Wuest, Princeton University In recent years, there has been an explosion of legislative and litigation campaigns to ban conversion therapy […]