Perspectives on Politics

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% […]

The Turn Away from Government and the Need to Revive the Civic Purpose of Higher Education Katherine J. Cramer, Director of the Morgridge Center for Public Service and Professor of Political Science at the University of […]

Labor Scholarship and/as Labor Activism Michael McCann, Gordon Hirabayashi Professor for the Advancement of Citizenship at the University of Washington Abstract: Do public engagement and political activism enhance or compromise the research enterprise of social scientists? I offer […]