Perspectives on Politics Archives

Visualizing War? Towards a Visual Analysis of Videogames and Social Media

February 15, 2017 Comments Off

Visualizing War? Towards a Visual Analysis of Videogames and Social Media by Nick Robinson, University of Leeds, UK and Marcus Schulzke, University of York, UK Political scientists are increasingly engaged with the importance of the “visual turn,” […]

Money Talks: Discourse, Networks, and Structure in Militant Organizations

February 14, 2017 Comments Off

Money Talks: Discourse, Networks, and Structure in Militant Organizations by Sarah E. Parkinson, Johns Hopkins University Scholarship on militant organizations and rebel movements emphasizes the effects of fragmentation and disunity on military and political outcomes. Yet this […]

Lines of Demarcation: Causation, Design-Based Inference, and Historical Research

February 13, 2017 Comments Off

Lines of Demarcation: Causation, Design-Based Inference, and Historical Research by Matthew A. Kocher, Yale University and Nuno P. Monteiro, Yale University Qualitative historical knowledge is essential for validating natural experiments. Specifically, the validity of a natural experiment […]

Jyl J. Josephson on “Just Married: Same-Sex Couples, Monogamy and the Future of Marriage”

November 3, 2016 Comments Off

A Discussion of Stephen Macedo’s Just Married: Same-Sex Couples, Monogamy and the Future of Marriage by Scott Barclay, Joseph J. Fischel, and Jyl J. Josephson On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, in […]

Righting Some of Wilson’s Wrongs by David C. Wilson

October 31, 2016 Comments Off

Righting Some of Wilson’s Wrongs by David C. Wilson, University of Delaware It might come as no surprise that although my surname is Wilson, I actually have no genealogical lineage to Woodrow Wilson (yes, I have […]

Scott Barclay on “Just Married: Same-Sex Couples, Monogamy and the Future of Marriage”

October 28, 2016 Comments Off

Review Essay: Political Research Beyond Political Science

October 27, 2016 Comments Off

Political Research Beyond Political Science by Sanford F. Schram, University of New York In spite of growing political rancor over increasing inequality and widening economic precarity, many political scientists steer clear of such issues, focusing more […]

Review Symposium: The Port Huron Statement and Political Science

October 26, 2016 Comments Off

The Port Huron Statement and Political Science A Discussion of Richard Flacks and Nelson Lichtenstein’s The Port Huron Statement: Sources and Legacies of the New Left’s Founding Manifesto by Mark Blitz, William E. Connolly, Peter […]

Call for Proposals for New Editors: APSA Section Journal Politics & Religion | Deadline: July 15, 2026

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Call for Proposals for New Editor(s) APSA Organized Section Journal “Politics & Religion” The Religion and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA) invite applications for the editorship of Politics and Religion (P&R) [...]
On the Decline of Elite-Educated Republicans in Congress

April 28, 2026 0

On the Decline of Elite-Educated Republicans in Congress By Craig Volden, University of Virginia, Jonathan Wai, University of Arkansas and Alan E. Wiseman, Vanderbilt University We identify a rise in educational polarization among members of [...]
Storm from the Steppes: Warfare and Succession Institutions in Pre-Modern Eurasia, 1000–1799 CE

April 27, 2026 0

Storm from the Steppes: Warfare and Succession Institutions in Pre-Modern Eurasia, 1000–1799 CE By Daniel Steven Smith, Ohio State University A prominent literature on pre-modern warfare and institution-building holds that intense military competition in pre-modern [...]

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