Perspectives on Politics

Calibrating Confidence: Civic Education and the Relationship between Objective Political Knowledge and Political Knowledge Confidence By Joshua M. Jansa, Oklahoma State University, Eve M. Ringsmuth, Oklahoma State University and Alex P. Smith, The University of […]

Attributing Responsibility to Big Tech for Mass Atrocity: Social Media and Transitional Justice By Juan Espíndola, University of Michigan Big Tech companies such as Meta, the owner of Facebook, are increasingly accused of enabling human […]

(When) Do Parties Affect Economic Inequality? A Systematic Analysis of 30 Years of Research By Martin Haselmayer, University of Applied Sciences and Alexander Horn, Aarhus University Despite 30 years of research on economic inequality, the […]

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 […]