Perspectives on Politics

Paul Whiteley, University of Essex The constraints on democratic governments imposed by globalization have been an important issue in international political economy for some years. The essence of the debate is whether globalization constrains or […]

Timothy Hellwig, Indiana University, Bloomington This is the third and last book (at least for now) of a series of studies on British elections authored by the principal investigators of the much-admired British Election Study […]

Carew Boulding This dialogue has been a welcome opportunity to think about Amanda Murdie’s excellent new book alongside my own. Reading them together settles a number of issues and raises others. First, I think we […]

Elisabeth Prügl, Dan Slater, Rick Valelly Contemporary political science has generated extensive literatures on the themes of war, civil war, contentious politics, and social movements. But these literatures are often segregated in particular subfields, like […]

Carmen E. Pavel, King’s College London Joan Cocks’s book On Sovereignty and Other Political Delusions encourages us to disavow the treacherous language and practice of sovereign power. She questions adeptly what my book takes for […]

Jennifer Mitzen, Ohio State University In their book, Barry Buzan and George Lawson synthesize an impressive range of material to argue that what they call the long nineteenth century amounted to a profound transformation in […]

Barry Buzan and George Lawson, London School of Economics Jennifer Mitzen’s primary goal in this book is to show how states “concert” their power in order to “steer” political outcomes (p. 61). For Mitzen, the […]

Amanda Murdie, University of Missouri Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are proliferating. How do they affect political participation in developing democracies? In NGOs, Political Protest, and Civil Society, Carew Boulding masterfully argues that NGOs, even those organizations […]