Perspectives on Politics

Bounded Rationality without Bounded Democracy: ‘Nudges,’ Democratic Citizenship, and Pathways Forward for Building Civic Capacity by Mark E. Button, University of Utah The behavioral sciences are playing an increasingly important role in the design and implementation […]

The Civic Voluntarism of ‘Custodial Citizens’: Involuntary Criminal Justice Contact, Associational Life, and Political Participation by Michael Leo Owens,  Emory University and Hannah Walker, Rutgers University  A growing body of research explores the influence of involuntary criminal justice […]

It’s the End of the World and They Know It: How Dystopian Fiction Shapes Political Attitudes by Calvert W. Jones, University of Maryland, College Park and Celia Paris, University of Toronto Given that the fictional narratives found in […]

The Ecclesiastical Roots of Representation and Consent by Jørgen Møller, Aarhus University Recent attempts to explain the development of medieval representative institutions have neglected a long-standing insight of medieval and legal historians: Political representation and rule […]

Sexual Harassment: Performances of Gender, Sexuality, and Power by Virginia Sapiro, Boston University Sexual harassment in schools and workplaces is a venerable phenomenon. It is impossible to imagine documenting the first time a male boss persistently […]

Partners in Crime: An Empirical Evaluation of the CIA Rendition, Detention, and Interrogation Program by Averell Schmidt, Harvard Kennedy School and Kathryn Sikkink, Harvard Kennedy School In the years following the attacks of 9/11, the CIA adopted […]