Perspectives on Politics

Is There a Trump Effect? An Experiment on Political Polarization and Audience Costs by Miles M. Evers, Aleksandr Fisher and Steven D. Schaaf, Columbian College of Arts and Sciences Does President Trump face domestic costs for foreign […]

Building a Conservative State: Partisan Polarization and the Redeployment of Administrative Power by Nicholas F. Jacobs, Colby College, Desmond King, University of Oxford and Sidney M. Milkis, University of Virginia It is commonplace to equate the […]

Trumpism and the Dialectic of Neoliberal Reason by David Lebow, Harvard University Guided by the thesis that fascism was the outcome of a dialectic of instrumental reason, I argue that Trumpism is the result of a […]

Performing Authoritarian Citizenship: Public Transcripts in China by Greg Distelhorst, University of Toronto and Diana Fu, University of Toronto How should we study citizenship in authoritarian regimes? We propose studying how citizenship is performed using the “public transcript”—communication […]

Non-Party Government: Bipartisan Lawmaking and Party Power in Congress by James M. Curry, University of Utah and  Frances E. Lee, University of Maryland, College Park Majority leaders of the contemporary Congress preside over parties that are […]

From Within to Between Nations: Subnational Comparison across Borders by Jefferey M. Sellers, University of Southern California Long a staple in the toolkit of American politics, comparison among subnational territorial units has gained increasing currency in […]

Beyond Democracy-Dictatorship Measures: A New Framework Capturing Executive Bases of Power, 1789-2016 by Jan Teorell, Lund University and Staffan I. Lindberg, University of Gothenburg We attempt to integrate the literatures on authoritarian regime types and democratic forms […]

Beyond the Field: Ethics after Fieldwork in Politically Dynamic Contexts by Eleanor Knott, London School of Economics As researchers, when do our ethical obligations end? How should our ethical obligations respond to dynamic and unstable political […]