Perspectives on Politics

Why Does Pluralism Matter When We Study Politics? A View from Contemporary International Relations by Daniel J. Levine, University of Alabama and David M. McCourt, University of California Pluralism has become a buzzword in International Relations. It has […]

The Rush to Transparency: DA-RT and the Potential Dangers for Qualitative Research by Kristen Renwick Monroe, University of California What is the impact of the recent Data Access and Research Transparency (DA-RT) initiative and the Journal Editors […]

Tocqueville in Jacksonian Context: American Expansionism and Discourses of American Indian Nomadism in Democracy in America by Alison McQueen, Stanford University and Burke A. Hendrix, University of Oregon Tocqueville’s discussion of American Indians in Democracy in America is often read […]

Transnational Corruption and the Globalized Individual by Alexander Cooley, Barnard College and J. C. Sharman, University of Cambridge We present a new, more transnational, networked perspective on corruption. It is premised on the importance of professional intermediaries who […]

Reflection: Public Sociology in the Age of Social Media by Keiran Healy, Duke University I informally examine how the idea of public sociology has been affected by the rise of social media. New social media platforms […]

Scaling Democracy: Participation and Resource Extraction in Latin America by Thea N. Riofrancos, Providence College In an extractive economy with territorially uneven costs and benefits, who should decide the fate of oil and mining projects: directly affected […]

The Black American Jacobins: Revolution, Radical Abolition, and the Transnational Turn by Adam Dahl, University of Massachusetts, Amherst While scholars of African American political thought have done a remarkable job centering focus on black thinkers, they still […]