Perspectives on Politics

Disrupting Regulation, Regulating Disruption: The Politics of Uber in the United States by Ruth Berins Collier, University of California, Berkeley, V.B. Dubal, University of California Hastings College of the Law and Christopher L. Carter,University of California, […]

The Politics of Attributing Blame for Cyberattacks and the Costs of Uncertainty by Marcus Schulzke,  University of York Attribution is one of the most serious challenges associated with cyberattacks. It is often difficult to determine […]

Democratic Backsliding and Acadmic Freedom in Hungary by Zsolt Enyedi, Central European University The Hungarian government’s discriminatory actions against the Central European University constitute one of the most prominent conflicts between an academic institution and a […]

Regulating Uber: The Politics of the Platform Economy in Europe and the United States by Kathleen Thelen,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology I use the case of the transportation network company Uber as a lens to […]

The Trump Presidency and the Structure of Modern American Politics by Byron E. Shafer, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Regina L. Wagner, University of Wisconsin-Madison One thing that political scientists reliably do is tease out the underlying structure of […]

Democratic Decline in the United States: What Can We Learn From Middle-Income Backsliding? by Robert R. Kaufman, Rutgers University and Stephan Haggard, UC San Diego We analyze what can be learned from authoritarian backsliding in middle income […]

Media Coverage, Public Interest, and Support in the 2016 Republican Invisible Primary by Kevin Reuning, Pennsylvania State University and Nick Dietrich, Pennsylvania State University The role of media coverage in elections is hotly debated. We examine how […]

A Trump Effect on the EU’s Popularity? The U.S. Presidential Election as a Natural Experiment by Lara Minkus, Universität Bremen,  Emanuel Deutschmann, Universität Bremen and Jan Delhey, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg Did the election of Donald Trump affect the […]