Perspectives on Politics

Deviant Cohesion and Unauthorized Atrocities: Evidence from the American War in Vietnam By Marek Brzezinski, University of Oxford Why do soldiers engage in unauthorized atrocities? This article explores this question by analyzing the use of […]

Democratic Innovation and Representative Democracy By Mark E. Warren, University of British Columbia We live in a period of hopes and fears for democracy. The fears, however, are now foremost in our minds. Democratic erosion […]

Deepening or Endangering Democracy: Demonstrations and Institutions under Representative Government By Robert M. Fishman, Madrid’s Carlos III University Do demonstrations tend to deepen or endanger democracy? I examine this theme of major debate between scholars and among political actors, […]

Anti-Black Political Violence and the Historical Legacy of the Great Replacement Conspiracy By Andrew Ifedapo Thompson, University of Pennsylvania, Maxwell Beveridge, University of Pennsylvania, Stefan McCabe, George Washington University, Molly Ahern, George Washington University, Fryda […]

“Fit for Purpose?” Assessing the Ecological Fit of the Social Institutions that Globally Govern Antimicrobial Resistance By Isaac Weldon, University of Copenhagen and Steven J. Hoffman, York University Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a natural process […]

When “Old” Constructivism Was New: Reflections on Classical Constructivism By Martha Finnemore, George Washington University and Alexander Wendt, The Ohio State University New lines of theorizing in international relations don’t appear very often. Realism proudly […]

The Ukrainian Refugee Crisis and the Politics of Public Opinion: Evidence from Hungary By Thomas B. Pepinsky, Cornell University, Ádám Reiff, Hungarian Research Network, and Krisztina Szabó, Royal Holloway, University of London The 2022 Russian […]

The Decarbonization Bargain: How the Decarbonizable Sector Shapes Climate Politics By Nils Kupzok, Columbia University and Jonas Nahm, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Political scientists conceptualize climate politics as a distributive struggle between emerging green and […]