PS: Political Science and Politics

Can Autocracy Handle Climate Change? By Shiran Victoria Shen, Stanford University Existing literature on climate politics predominantly concentrates on democracies. However, there is a pressing need to examine how authoritarian regimes respond to climate change, […]

Best Practices and the Need for Research on MA Degree Programs in Political Science By Jennifer L. De Maio and Alexandra Macias, California State University, Northridge Recent research suggests that master’s (MA) education in the […]

American Attitudes Toward Climate Migrants: Findings from a Conjoint Experiment By Per Adman, Uppsala University, Nazita Lajevardi, Michigan State University, and Deborah Seligsohn, Villanova University The dramatic impacts of climate change presage an inevitable surge […]

Africana Political Theory as Decolonial Critique By Derefe Kimarley Chevannes, University of Memphis This article illuminates a fundamental problem at the core of canonical political theory: the racialization of knowledge. It contends that the history […]

The Resilience of Democracy’s Third Wave By Steven Levitsky, Harvard University, and Lucan Way, University of Toronto The literature on democratization has experienced radical mood swings in recent decades, from extreme optimism in the 1990s […]

Three Fallacies Undermining Participatory Constitution Making By Yanina Welp, Albert Hirschman Democracy Centre, Geneva Graduate Institute In recent years, many emerging actors (e.g., new social movements and parties) associate democratic problems with representative institutions. Accordingly, […]