Perspectives on Politics seeks to provide a space for broad and synthetic discussion within the political science profession and between the profession and the broader scholarly and reading publics.
In His Day: Awareness of Wilson’s Duplicity by Desmond Jagmohan, Yale University Disagreement over Woodrow Wilson’s legacy is nothing new. On March 28, 1939, Paul A. Hill asked W. E. B. Du Bois to contribute a […]
Should APSA’s Most Prominent Award Continue to be Named after a Racist? by Jennifer Hochschild, Harvard University As political scientists, we have no control over the possible renaming of the many institutions named for the […]
The Untilled Field of Field Campaigns Hahrie Han, University of California, Santa Barbara Elizabeth McKenna, University of California, Berkeley This paper considers the challenges and opportunities of conducting a thick, qualitative study of a twenty-first century […]
Deliberating Downstream: Countering Democratic Distortions in the Policy Process by John Boswell, University of Southampton Key theorists and scholars of democracy have focused on understanding and enhancing the institutions and practices that shape decision-making. Indeed, the […]
Recruitment by Petition: American Antislavery, French Protestantism, English Suppression By Daniel Carpenter Why do petitions flourish when they are often denied if not ignored by the sovereigns who receive them? When activists seek to build […]
The Koch Network and Republican Party Extremism by Theda Skocpol, Harvard University and Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs Presidential election years attract attention to the rhetoric, personalities, and agendas of contending White […]
Mass Opinion and Immigration Policy in the United States: Re-Assessing Clientelist and Elitist Perspectives By Morris Levy, Matthew Wright and Jack Citrin We argue that widely accepted elitist and “clientelist” models of immigration policy in […]
By Janet Elise Johnson Why hasn’t the marked increase in women in politics over the last half century led to the expected results of increased gender equality and more democracy? In order to propose a […]
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