Perspectives on Politics

The “American DREAM”: Understanding White Americans’ Support for the DREAM Act and Punitive Immigration Policies By Yalidy Matos, Rutgers University, New Brunswick The American public has overwhelmingly supported the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien […]

Three Models of Democratic Expertise By Alfred Moore, University of Cambridge How can expertise best be integrated within democratic systems? And how can such systems best enable lay judgment of expert claims? These questions are […]

Why Do States Privatize their Prisons? The Unintended Consequences of Inmate Litigation By Anna Gunderson, Louisiana State University The United States has witnessed privatization of a variety of government functions over the last three decades. […]

The Myth of Global Populism By David Art, Tufts University, Massachusetts The “rise of global populism” has become a primary metanarrative for the previous decade in advanced industrial democracies, but I argue that it is […]

The Cost of Participating while Poor and Black: Toward a Theory of Collective Participatory Debt By Sally A. Nuamah, Northwestern University How do resource-poor Black populations participate in the policy process? And what are the […]

Survivorship Bias in Comparative Politics: Endogenous Sovereignty and the Resource Curse By David Waldner, University of Virginia and Benjamin Smith, University of Warwick Cross-national statistical research based on “all country” data sets involves no deliberate […]

Substantive Divergence: The Meaning of Public Opinion on Government Spending in Red and Blue By Katherine Krimmel, Columbia University and Kelly Rader, Yale University We examine the substantive meaning of public opinion on government spending […]

Models-As-Fables: An Alternative to the Standard Rationale for Using Formal Models in Political Science By James Johnson, University of Rochester Political scientists invoke the standard rationale to justify making and using formal models. It goes […]