Perspectives on Politics

Adversaries or Allies? Donald Trump’s Republican Support in Congress by Karyn Amira, Lauren Johnson, Deon McCray, and Jordan Ragusa, College of Charleston Donald Trump’s first year in office received unprecedented media coverage, with many wondering whether congressional Republicans […]

Comparing America: Reflections on Democracy across Subfields by Didi Kuo, Stanford University Is America in a period of democratic decline? I argue that there is an urgent need to consider the United States in comparative […]

An Adversarial Ethics for Campaigns and Elections by Samuel Bagg, McGill University and  Isak Tranvik, Duke University  Existing approaches to campaign ethics fail to adequately account for the “arms races” incited by competitive incentives in the absence […]

The Promise of Precommitment in Democracy and Human Rights: The Hopeful, Forgotten Failure of the Larreta Doctrine by Tom Long, University of Warwick and Max Paul Friedman, American University Although international precommitment regimes offer a […]

The Differential Effects of Economic Conditions and Racial Attitudes in the Election of Donald Trump – Corrigendum by Jon Green and Sean McElwee In the original published article by Green and McElwee (2019), on page […]

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 Faith in the resilience of the US Constitution prompts many observers to discount […]

Don’t Republicans Tweet Too? Using Twitter to Assess the Consequences of Political Endorsements by Celebrities by Jan Zilinsky, University of London,  Cristian Vaccari, University of London, Jonathan Nagler, New York University, and Joshua A. Tucker, […]

Celebrity Humanitarianism: Using Tropes of Engagement to Understand North/South Relations by Lisa Ann Richey,  Duke University and  Dan Brockington, University of Sheffield  Celebrity humanitarianism has been transformed in its scope, scale, and organization in the last […]