Perspectives on Politics

Partisan Polarization on Black Suffrage, 1785-1868 by David Alexander Bateman, Cornell University The politics of black voting rights is often dated to the immediate post-Civil War era. This paper analyzes an earlier period of contestation over […]

Against Bot Democracy: The Dangers of Epistemic Double-Counting by Ana Tanasoca, Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance The article focuses on the question of how each of us should deliberate internally when forming judgements. That […]

Expressive Voting in Autocracies: A Theory of Non-Economic Participation with Evidence from Cameroon by Natalie Wenzell Letsa, University of Oklahoma Why do people vote in autocratic elections? Until now, most answers to this question have […]

A Path out of Patriarchy? Political Agency and Social Identity of Women Fighters by Güneş Murat Tezcür, University of Central Florida Violent movements in different parts of the world have employed large numbers of women […]

The Paris Agreement on Climate Change—Made in USA? By Manjana Milkoreit, Purdue College of Liberal Arts The 2015 Paris Agreement established a new logic for international climate governance: the pledge-and-review system. In 2009, the same […]

Informal Institutions and the Regulation of Smuggling in North Africa By Max Gallien, The London School of Economics Contemporary writing on North African borderlands invokes the idea of a general, unregulated porosity through which small-scale […]

“I’m Not the President of Black America”: Rhetorical Versus Policy Representation By Pavielle E Haines, University of Denver,  Tali Mendelberg, Princeton University, and Bennett Butler, United States Senate A key question in the study of minority […]