Perspectives on Politics

The Process of Revolutionary Protest: Development and Democracy in the Tunisian Revolution By Christopher Barrie, New York University Revolutionary protest rarely begins as democratic or revolutionary. Instead, it grows in a process of positive feedback, […]

Voting with Their Guns: An Integrated Framework of How Police Politically Administer Violence By Hernán Flom, Trinity College Most analyses of the intersection of police, politics, and violence—which center on the police’s use of force […]

Sweden’s Peculiar Adoption of Proportional Representation: The Overlooked Effects of Time and History By Marcus Kreuzer and Runa Neely, Villanova University Sweden’s adoption of proportional representation (PR) is interesting because it involved static structural and […]

Republican Policing: From Consent to Contestation By William Smith, Wake Forest University Policing by consent is an influential frame of reference for police forces, policy makers, and members of the public in appraising the means […]

Power in a Union: How Unexpected Group Partnerships Form By Boris Heersink, Fordham University and Matthew J. Lacombe, Case Western Reserve University While scholars have focused extensively on the consequences of partnerships between interest groups, […]

Political Science in the Afterlife of Empire: New Reckonings with Racism and Racialization By Sarah Bufkin, University of Birmingham, Anne Wolf, University of Oxford and Kathrin Bachleitner, University of Salzburg Over the past couple of […]

Polarization and the Democratic System: Kinds, Reasons, and Sites By Christian F. Rostbøll, University of Copenhagen It is widely agreed that the increased polarization many countries experience is bad for democracy. However, existing assessments of […]

Jihadist Terrorist Attacks and Far-Right Party Preferences: An “Unexpected Event During Survey Design” in Four European Countries By Tim Vlandas, University of Oxford and Daphne Halikiopoulou, University of York This article presents new empirical evidence […]