Perspectives on Politics

The Strange Fruit of the Tree of Liberty: Lynch Law and Popular Sovereignty in the United States By Michael Gorup, New College of Florida Lynch mobs regularly called on the language of popular sovereignty in […]

The Rights Revolution in the Age of Obama and Ferguson: Policing, the Rule of Law, and the Elusive Quest for Accountability By Lynda G. Dodd, Princeton University Recent political science scholarship examining the institutional features of […]

The Adaptability Paradox: Constitutional Resilience and Principles of Good Government in Twenty-First-Century America By Stephen Skowronek, Yale University and Karen Orren, University of California, Los Angeles Faith in the resilience of the US Constitution prompts […]

Rule by Violence, Rule by Law: Lynching, Jim Crow, and the Continuing Evolution of Voter Suppression in the U.S. By Brad Epperly, University of South Carolina, Christopher Witko, University of South Carolina, Ryan Strickler, Colorado […]

Black Lives Matter: Evidence that Police-Caused Deaths Predict Protest Activity By Vanessa Williamson, Brookings Institution, Kris-Stella Trump, Social Science Research Council and Katherine Levine Einstein, Boston University Since 2013, protests opposing police violence against Black […]

Reconceptualizing Political Knowledge: Race, Ethnicity, and Carceral Violence By Cathy J. Cohen, University of Chicago and Matthew D. Luttig, Colgate University What is political knowledge? We argue that the traditional measure of political knowledge is […]

Police Work: The Centrality of Labor Repression in American Political History By Alex Gourevitch, Brown University The great promise of our capitalist society is that it is organized on the basis of consent, not coercion. When […]