Perspectives on Politics Archives

Exit, Resistance, Loyalty: Military Behavior during Unrest in Authoritarian Regimes

March 30, 2016 Comments Off

Holger Albrecht, Dorothy Ohl A few years into the most recent wave of popular uprisings—the Arab Spring—studying regime trajectories in countries such as Syria, Egypt, and Yemen still seems like shooting at a moving target. […]

Narratives of Fear in Syria

March 29, 2016 Comments Off

Wendy Pearlman Scholarship on Syria has traditionally been limited by researchers’ difficulty in accessing the reflections of ordinary citizens due to their reluctance to speak about politics. The 2011 revolt opened exciting opportunities by producing […]

Former APSA President, Rodney Hero, Talks Political Science, Racial Diversity, and Economic Disparity

March 28, 2016 Comments Off

Rodney E. Hero Political science should play a larger role in grappling with the political roots, meanings, and implications of the various levels and unique configurations of class inequality and racial diversity that have characterized […]

Perspectives on the Arab Spring: Five Years Later

February 16, 2016 Comments Off

Syria; February 2, 2014: Demonstration against the Syrian regime in the Bustan al-Qasr neighborhood in the city of Aleppo. (Photo Credit: Jalal Almamo) In January 2011, a revolutionary chain of uprisings shook the Middle East […]

Relative Policy Support and Coincidental Representation by Peter K. Enns

January 27, 2016 Comments Off

The finding that the preferences of middle-income Americans are ignored when they diverge from the preferences of the rich is one of the most widely accepted and influential conclusions in political science research today. I […]

Family Story as Political Science: Reflections on Writing Trapped in America’s Safety Net

January 26, 2016 Comments Off

Intimate ethnography presents a number of challenges: How could I write about my own family in a way that was true to their experience but also an “objective” report? How could I convey telling details […]

Reflections on The Civic Culture and The Civic Culture Transformed by Sidney Verba

January 25, 2016 Comments Off

by Sidney Verba The Civic Culture Transformed is an interesting and important volume on political culture, focusing on postmaterialist values and beliefs, their origin, evolution, and relation to functioning democracy. It goes beyond the values […]

Reconsidering the Middle: A Reply to Martin Gilens by Peter K. Enns

January 22, 2016 Comments Off

Martin Gilens and I agree that because of their similar policy preferences, both median-income and affluent respondents “fairly often get the policies they favor.” We also agree that “democracy by coincidence” can hold normatively concerning […]

International Relations Scholars, the Media, and the Dilemma of Consensus

April 29, 2026 0

International Relations Scholars, the Media, and the Dilemma of Consensus By Irene Entringer García Blanes, William & Mary, Shauna N. Gillooly, University of California, Irvine, Susan Peterson, William & Mary, Ryan Powers, University of Wisconsin–Madison [...]
Call for Proposals for New Editors: APSA Section Journal Politics & Religion | Deadline: July 15, 2026

April 28, 2026 0

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 [...]

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