Perspectives on Politics

Testing Theories about Advocacy and Public Policy By Paul Burstein, University of Washington, Seattle One critical way that social scientists contribute to our understanding of policy change is developing and testing theories to explain the impact […]

Representation, Bicameralism, Political Equality, and Sortition: Reconstituting the Second Chamber as a Randomly Selected Assembly By Arash Abizadeh, McGill University The two traditional justifications for bicameralism are that a second legislative chamber serves a legislative-review function […]

Hard-to-Survey Populations and Respondent-Driven Sampling: Expanding the Political Science Toolbox By Rana B. Khoury, Northwestern University Survey research can generate knowledge that is central to the study of collective action, public opinion, and political participation. […]

How Interior Immigration Enforcement Affects Trust in Law Enforcement By Tom K. Wong, University of California, San Diego, S. Deborah Kang, California State University San Marcos, Carolina Valdivia, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Josefina Espino, University of […]

Public Goods and Social Justice By Margaret Kohn, University of Toronto Why should the state provide public goods? I explore this question by focusing on the example of public parks. It examines the three most influential […]

Gender Differences in Legislator Responsiveness By Danielle M. Thomsen, University of California, Irvine and Bailey K. Sanders, Duke University A growing body of research shows that women legislators outperform their male counterparts in the legislative arena, […]

Explaining Ethnoreligious Minority Targeting: Variation in U.S. Anti-Semitic Incidents By Ayal Feinberg, Texas A&M University Over the last two decades alone, the United States has suffered well over ten thousand religion-motivated hate crimes. While racism […]

Before Reagan: The Development of Abortion’s Partisan Divide By Neil A. O’Brian, University of California- Berkeley What explains the alignment of antiabortion positions within the Republican party? I explore this development among voters, activists, and elites […]