Perspectives on Politics

Nation-Building in Turkey and Morocco: Governing Kurdish and Berber Dissent AslanSenem. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 250p. $95.00 by Aysegul Aydin, University of Colorado at Boulde When do people rise up against their governments? Senem Aslan’s […]

On Inequality Frankfurt, Harry G., Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015. 102p. $14.95. by David Lay Williams, DePaul University After lurking in the background for decades of steady and nearly unnoticed growth, economic inequality has come to demand […]

A Discussion of Simona Forti’s “New Demons: Rethinking Power and Evil Today” Kristin Monroe How do we conduct scholarly inquiry on events that lie so far beyond the ordinary that we lack the language with which […]

Book Review: Sanford Schram’s The Return of Ordinary Capitalism: Neoliberalism, Precarity, Occupy Eva Bertram, Associate Professor of Politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Abstract: Sanford Schram’s The Return of Ordinary Capitalism: Neoliberalism, Precarity, Occupy (Oxford University Press, […]

Saving Relational Politics Peter Levine, Associate Dean for Research and Lincoln Filene Professor of Citizenship & Public Affairs in Tufts University’s Jonathan Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service. Billion-dollar presidential campaigns, corporate lobbying victories, and […]

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. Such discussion necessarily draws on and […]

Agenda Setting in Comparative Perspective Frank R. Baumgartner, Richard J. Richardson Distinguished Professor of Political Science at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill It has been more than 50 years since the discipline was […]

The Right to Work? Rethinking Labor and Politics in the 19th and 21st Centuries Victoria Hattam, Professor of Politics at the New School for Social Research Unionization rates in the United States now stand at 11.1% […]