Perspectives on Politics

APSA is happy to announce that Chloe Thurston, Associate Professor of Political Science and Mary McGrath are joining the Perspectives on Politics editorial team as Associate Editors in American Politics. Chloe Thurston, Associate Professor of Political Science; […]

Citizens’ Preferences for Multidimensional Representation By Jack Blumenau, University College London, Fabio Wolkenstein, and Christopher Wratil, University of Vienna How do citizens want to be represented in politics? We investigate citizens’ multidimensional preferences regarding six conceptions of […]

Political Science as a Dependent Variable: The National Science Foundation and the Shaping of a Discipline By Tamir Moustafa, Simon Fraser University From 1965 to 2020, the National Science Foundation constituted the single largest funding […]

Varieties of State-Building: Ecology, Clientelism, and Bureaucratic Rule in Chile By Maximiliano Véjares, Johns Hopkins University Current research suggests that all states share a perpetual appetite for extraction and standardization. However, this research overlooks the […]

Multidimensional Diversity and Research Impact in Political Science: What 50 Years of Bibliometric Data Tell Us By Yuner Zhu, Hong Kong Baptist University and Edmund W. Cheng, City University of Hong Kong We examine the […]

The Antidemocratic Harms of Mansplaining By Laura Montanaro, University of Essex The neologism “mansplaining” captures an insidious dynamic in which men explain things to women that women already understand, assuming that, by virtue of being […]

The Fossil-Fueled Roots of Climate Inaction in Authoritarian Regimes By William Kakenmaster, University of Notre Dame Why do some authoritarian regimes contribute more to climate change than others? I suggest that climate inaction in nondemocracies […]

When Do Mass Labor Strikes Reshape the Public? New Findings and a Research Agenda for Political Science By Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Columbia University  I consider the role of exposure to large-scale strikes in shaping preferences about […]