Perspectives on Politics

Civic Innovation: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow by Carmen Sirianni, Brandeis University Over the past several decades, scholars across a variety of social science disciplines have turned their attention to civic innovation that might have the potential to […]

The Politics of Overseas Military Bases by Andrew I. Yeo, The Catholic University of America In February 2003, six weeks prior to the United States-led invasion of Iraq, the Pentagon issued orders for U.S. troops stationed […]

Protests and Repression in New Democracies by S. Erdem Aytaç, Koç University, Luis Schiumerini, University of Oxford, and Susan Stokes, Yale University Elected governments sometimes deal with protests by authorizing the police to use less-lethal tools of repression: […]

Political Liberalism: Political, not Philosophical by Bernard Yack, Brandeis University Political Liberalism (1993) is both the title of John Rawls’s second book and a rallying cry for philosophers, like Martha Nussbaum, who believe that “more than any […]

Disenchanted Professionals: The Politics of Faculty Governance in the Neoliberal Academy by Timothy Kaufman-Osborn, Whitman College The “corporatization” of the academy is often cited as a cause of the “de-professionalization” of the professoriate, and that in turn […]