Perspectives on Politics

Left Pessimism and Political Science by Jennifer L. Hochschild,  Harvard University I examine why contemporary social scientists on the political left are relatively pessimistic about the public arena and its trajectory. To develop an answer, I explore […]

Rhetorical Adaptation and Resistance to International Norms by Jennifer M. Dixon, Villanova University Scholarship on states’ responses to international norms has focused on commitment, compliance, and noncompliance; paying insufficient attention to responses that fall outside these categories. […]

A Discussion of Josiah Ober’s The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece by Josiah Ober, Standford University Ancient Greece has long exercised a powerful hold on the imagination of modern political science. But until fairly recently, […]

A Discussion of Dawn Langan Teele’s Field Experiments and Their Critics: Essays on the Uses and Abuses of Experimentation in the Social Sciences by Dawn Langan Teele, University of Pennsylvania Experimental approaches to political science research […]