Since its inception, public administration has been rich with stories of frontline officials, often portraying the complex interplay between the perceived “good cops” and “bad cops.”…
In this “Conversation with Authors,” we spoke with APSR author Anne-Kathrin Kreft about her open access article, co-authored with Mattias Agerberg,“Imperfect Victims?…
International efforts to protect biodiversity date back to the 1970s in the form of Multilateral Environmental Agreements and regional legal instruments like the Directives of the European Union (EU).…
International standards have proliferated in many policy areas over recent decades and are a key feature of global governance. Standard-setting is particularly consequential in finance given its global reach and systemic implications for the economy.…
In 2005, pharmacies in Greece and Portugal enjoyed some of the highest regulatory protections from competition in the EU. Fifteen-plus years later, Greek pharmacies are still highly protected, while Portuguese pharmacies have had to undergo several bouts of liberalization.…
As Douwe Truijens and Marcel Hanegraaff have recently remarked (Truijens and Hanegraaff 2023), interest groups can play a very large role at the implementation stage of the policy cycle, potentially even reversing decisions made earlier in the cycle.…
In this “Conversation with Authors,” we spoke with APSR authors Vasiliki (Vicky) Fouka and Hans-Joachim Voth about their open access article “Collective Remembrance and Private Choice: German-Greek Conflict and Behavior in Times of Crisis.”…
Central aspects of governmental decision-making are veiled in secrecy. This explains why behavioral public administration has had so little to say about the behavior and decisions of top civil servants and political executives.…
On Saturday, September 2nd 2023, Christopher Towler and Benjamin Gonzalez O’Brien hosted an online meet-the-editors session for the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics (JREP) during this year’s American Political Science Association conference.…
Standards are everywhere in society. A visa card works across countries and banks because of standards. Standards developed by standard-setting organizations are also part of larger practices of governance in most societies today.…
In 2012, a Conservative-led coalition implemented austerity measures to restore the UK’s finances. The measures aimed to address the increase in public spending that had occurred during the Great Recession and included significant cuts to public services in the form of the 2012 Welfare Reform Act.…
National parliaments had been for long time losers of European integration with only very limited competences of information on new EU initiatives and of rubber-stamping transposition law compared to the national governments, which often negotiate EU law at the supranational level and propose its transposition acts at the national level.…
In 1996, then-President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) into law, with the goal to “end welfare as we know it.”…
In this “Conversation with Authors,” we spoke with APSR authors Anthony Fowler and Lynn Vavreck about their open access article (coauthored with Seth Hill, Jeffrey Lewis, Chris Tausanovitch, and Christopher Warshaw), “Moderates.”…
In this “Conversation with Authors,” we spoke with APSR author Jack Turner about his open access article “Whitman’s Undemocratic Vistas: Mortal Anxiety, National Glory, White Supremacy.”…
This “Conversation with Authors” features Scott J. Cook (SJC), Jude C. Hays (JCH), and Robert J. Franzese, Jr. (RJF), authors of the recent open access APSR article, “STADL Up!…
In my open access article ‘Considering Stratospheric Aerosol Injections beyond an Environmental Frame: the ‘Emergency’ techno-fix and Preemptive Security’, I focus on a form of solar geoengineering known as Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI) which is attracting increasing attention as a potential technological response to the growing problems associated with climate change.…
The main goal of the paper is to explain the emergence and the expansion of public primary education systems.
What makes a good review? Some advice to potential reviewers about what we hope your review will accomplish for our authors and for us.
In this “Conversation with Authors,” we spoke with APSR authors Florian Foos and Daniel Bischof about their article, “Tabloid Media Campaigns and Public Opinion: Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Euroscepticism in England.”…
A question that keeps me up at a night is: “What is ideology? How do we measure it?” I remember Dan had this idea and said, “Well it’s easier to ask people to do a pairwise comparison than something more complicated—couldn’t we do that?”
One thing this paper addresses is that there is work on contemporary and long-term effects of boundaries, focused on how individual behavior is shaped by boundaries. What’s missing from this growing literature is much evidence of how this actually works.
On a first invitation to revise and resubmit, you will have at least three reviews and a letter from us that may suggest how to work with the reviews or provide you with additional advice. But how do you work through this advice, particularly when it is contradictory or advice that you disagree with? And what should you include in the detailed memo we request that you include with your resubmission?
human rights have not been given significant emphasis in the work of the UNSC and, furthermore, the practical links between the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) norm and human rights have remained relatively ambiguous
In early 2017, only half of Washington, DC families receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) successfully recertified their eligibility and maintained their benefits.…
Government policy performance is an important source of political trust. When governments perform well, the public is inclined to have high levels of trust toward them.…
Gender equality is experiencing a strange moment in international politics. On the one hand, discourse and policy around gender equality have never been so prevalent.…
Critical Pakistan Studies will be the first international journal devoted to the study of Pakistan and its peopleJournal will be interdisciplinary and open accessAims to give the widest possible understanding of Pakistan, past, and present Cambridge University Press is to publish the world’s first international journal devoted to the study of Pakistan and its people.…
The European Union (EU) has been hit by a series of crises in the past two decades testing its sense of solidarity and institutional design, namely the 2008 financial crisis, the migration crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, and now most recently, the Russia-Ukraine War.…
In this “Conversation with Authors,” we spoke with Yang-Yang Zhou and Andrew Shaver, the authors of an APSR article titled “Re-examining the Effects of Refugees on Civil Conflict: A Global Subnational analysis.”…
In this “Conversation with Authors,” we spoke with Brittany Leach, the author of a recent APSR article entitled, “At the Borders of the Body Politic: Fetal Citizens, Pregnant Migrants, and Reproductive Injustices in Immigration Detention.”…
Why should we take institutions into consideration when exploring the politics of policy making in different geographies? As two researchers working on public policies in a country with a statist policy style, we observe a particular type of policy entrepreneur, time and again, driving major policy reforms in diverse policy sectors.…
One of our editorial team’s most important objectives is to increase the substantive, methodological and representational diversity of the journal. When we became editors, we pledged to broaden the range of research topics published in the journal.…
For more than a year now, on every weekday at noon, academics at Boğaziçi University gather in the main courtyard for a silent vigil turning their backs against the Rector’s Building carrying posters demanding the removal of the appointed rector and his appointees, the reinstitution of rectorate elections and the annulment of arbitrary decisions such as the opening of new programs.…
Since the beginning of 2022, Turkey has witnessed an unexpected strike wave. The strike by couriers at Trendyol, an e-commerce platform bought by Alibaba in 2018, has attracted the most public attention.…
Our editorial team created this blog as part of our effort to increase the transparency about the journal. The blog is a place to explain policies and procedures and to communicate the norms and expectations that guide our work at the journal.…
Over the past decades, a growing number of countries have introduced carbon taxes to lower carbon emissions and fight climate change.…
Despite the fact that the leaders of the current governing alliance (Cumhur İttifakı– People’s Alliance) deny the possibility of a snap election, my short answer to the question in the title is “yes.”…
As I sit down to write a blog post covering my article in the European Journal of International Security, The Swedish Covid-19 strategy and voluntary compliance: Failed securitisation or constitutional security management?,…
In this Conversation with Authors, we spoke with Amanda Clayton and Pär Zetterberg, the authors of the APSR open access article “Gender and Party Discipline: Evidence from Africa’s Emerging Party Systems.”…
In this Conversation with Authors, we spoke with Dr. Emma Saunders-Hastings about her recent APSR article, “‘Send Back the Bloodstained Money’: Frederick Douglass on Tainted Gifts.”…
In this Conversation with Authors, we spoke with Dr. Roberto Carlos about his recent APSR article, “The Politics of the Mundane.”…
In our article for EJIS, “Communities of Practice, Impression Management, and Great Power Status: Military Observers in the Russo-Japanese War”, we build on a broader return to the study of military diplomacy in international relations.…
In this post, Kimberly Hutching and Patricia Owens reference their APSR article “Women Thinkers and the Canon of International Thought: Recovery, Rejection, and Reconstitution“.…
The African Union (AU) declared 2019 the Year of Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons: Towards Durable Solutions to Forced Displacement in Africa.…
In this post, Phillip Ayoub (PA), Douglas Page (DP), and Sam Whitt (SW) discuss their APSR article, “Pride amid Prejudice: The Influence of LGBT+ Activism in a Socially Conservative Society.”…
1. Crypto is the Data Money, Blockchain is the Accounting System It is wrong to think that Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum are mere digital monies.…
Within hours of assuming office, President Joe Biden began taking steps to reverse his predecessor’s devastating policies on climate change. He returned the United States to the Paris Agreement, declared that his administration would cooperate with other countries to tackle the problem, and pledged that Americans would substantially cut their greenhouse gas pollution.…
Do governing parties follow through on their campaign promises? Representative democracy requires that there are policy linkages between citizens and policies ultimately enacted by their governments.…
After decades of progressive reforms, since the early 2010s, Turkey has enacted a series of rollbacks on women’s rights and gender equality.…
There’s a great deal of confusion currently about the meaning of “socialism.” Is it no more than the Great Society on steroids, or a Bolshevik-style seizure of absolute power?…
Frederik Unseld is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute for Social Anthropology at the University of Basel, Switzerland. His Ph.D. focuses on artists in the context of political and economic violence in Kisumu, western Kenya.…
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken the world by storm. At the time of writing this blog post, COVID-19 has brought a current death toll of almost 2.6 million people, and the number of infected surpassing 117 million people.…
In a recent article for the APSR, Dr. Cécile Laborde (University of Oxford) examines the rise of the Hindu Nationalist BJP in India and its effects on the secular Indian state.…
In a recent article in the APSR, Katerina Linos, Laura Jákli, and Melissa Carlson partnered with a Greek NGO to conduct a cutting edge text message donation experiment.…
The autonomy of universities from politics and the executive branch may sometimes be taken for granted. For this reason, it is worth emphasizing why that autonomy is so important.…
This post first appeared on Jonathan Havercroft’s blog in January 2021. During the middle of the Stop the Steal riot on Wednesday, some commentators on social media argued that this showed how those who defended Black Lives Matter riots in the summer were wrong.…
Boğaziçi University Protests and State Homophobia in Turkey
For this post, we asked Dr. Jamil Scott to speak with Dr. Tabitha Bonilla and Dr. Alvin Tillery about their APSR article, “Which Identity Frames Boost Support for and Mobilization in the #BlackLivesMatter Movement?…
In this post, Aala Abdelgadir and Vasili Fouka discuss their recent APSR article exploring the consequences of the headscarf ban in France.…
While the pandemic’s effects on health, livelihoods and economy is dominating the public debate, its effect on housing has not gained much visibility.…
Why did the United Kingdom withdraw from its large military bases in the Arabian Peninsula and Southeast Asia during the Cold War?…
Once again, a brutal rape case that occurred in India in September 2020 has captured headlines and stunned the world. In Hathra, Uttar Pradesh, a Dalit (an oppressed caste), woman was gang-raped by several dominant caste men; she succumbed to her injuries two weeks after the attack.…
Founded in 1960, The China Quarterly is on the eve of entering its seventh decade of publishing world-class research on China.…
This is the first post in our new series: “Conversations with Authors.” For our inaugural post, we asked Dr. Vesla Weaver to meet (virtually) with Dr.…
Drawing on their article for the European Journal of International Security, Jun Yan Chang and Nicole Jenne discuss ‘The paradox of defence diplomacy in Southeast Asia’ Defence diplomacy is usually promoted as a cooperative activity between the armed forces and related infrastructure of different states to build trust and confidence between said states.…
When, in September 2019, the editors of the Journal of Modern African Studies invited Professor Moses Ochonu, a historian at Vanderbilt University, to write a brief on recurrent xenophobia in South Africa, we were unsettled by the apparent contradiction between repeated attacks on individuals from other African countries, and the idea of Ubuntu, a philosophical insistence on Afro-human solidarity championed most vigorously within the South African academy.…
Prior to the beginning of our tenure, we set out a vision statement for the APSR revolving around six principles. One of these principles is editorial transparency, specifically as it refers to sharing with our community information about our editorial workflow and characteristics of our authors, reviewers, and readership during our tenure.…
Drawing upon her article in the European Journal of International Security (EJIS), Laura J. Shepherd explores ‘The Paradox of Prevention in the Women, Peace and Security Agenda’.…
When 43 students disappeared in the Mexican city Iguala in September 2014 during an attack of a joint group made up of local mafia and municipal police forces, a public outcry plunged the government of President Enrique Peña Nieto into crisis and decisively contributed to the defeat of his PRI party in the presidential elections.…
I was sitting in a Beirut café reading Kundera when a blast rocked the city a few weeks ago, on August 4.…
In June 2014, the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Islamic Action Front Party organised a press conference to present its new and detailed economic plan in Amman.…
How was it possible for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to become established as a major health care reform despite being highly controversial?…
It has been nine months since the “normal” has been disrupted with the emergence of a novel coronavirus and while we continue to be in the clasp of the COVID-19 pandemic the “new normal” has not ossified yet.…
Since the August 4th explosion in Beirut, I have been unable to write. Honestly, I have been incapable of communicating much beyond anger and sorrow for my friends and colleagues affected.…
**updated August 28, 2020** Elections for judges in the US don’t usually attract much controversy or attention, but the 2014 race for seats on the Montana Supreme Court was an exception.…
For decades, external observers have dismissed Belarus as a country with a weak or contested national identity and an underdeveloped civil society.…
The digital sphere is consistently expanding, and now encompasses more than half of the world’s population with eight billion digital devices (Kemp, 2019).…
Adalet Ağaoğlu, one of the most prominent authors of modern Turkish literature, passed away at the age of 91 leaving behind a literary legacy that will be difficult to match for years to come.…
Drawing upon their article in vol.5, no.2 of the European Journal of International Security, Aiko Holvikivi and Audrey Reeves explore how the Women, Peace and Security agenda has broadened to make space for women in conflict zones and also for refugee women in Europe’s borderlands.…
This summer has seen mobilization on an unprecedented scale, as people have taken to the streets to demand action against police violence and systemic anti-Black racism.…
On June 30th the Higher Education website initially launched with a small selection of 80 online textbooks, with more titles due to be added throughout the following months.…
In this post, John J. Heslen expands on his article in a recent issue of Politics and the Life Sciences.…
In a recent opinion piece on Bloomberg.com, Peter Orszag, former director of the Office of Management and Budget during the Obama Administration, suggested that the Covid-19 pandemic would be an unprecedented Political Science experiment that would test whether the threat of the virus could overcome the polarisation of American political parties.…
In this post Lawrie Balfour expands on her 2003 American Political Science Review article ‘Unreconstructed Democracy: W.E.B. DuBois and the Case for Reparations‘.…
Higher Education from Cambridge University Press is our new online textbook website, launched in August 2020. In recent months Cambridge University Press has introduced a new set of strategies to support changing teaching and learning needs as higher education institutions prepare for a more digitally driven future in the wake of pandemic.…
In this post Dean Knox, Will Lowe, and Jonathan Mummolo expand upon their APSR article ‘Administrative Records Mask Racially Biased Policing‘ which was recently published online.…
“I would like to be free, as a man is free. Like a man who needs to wander with his fantasies and who finds this space only in his democracy, that has the right to vote and spends his life delegating and in receiving commands has found his new freedom” (Giorgio Gaber, “la Libertà”, 1973) Delegation is a very common act in our everyday life: We delegate tasks to our colleagues in the workplace.…
The overexploitation and pollution of natural resources and accelerating climate change are among the greatest challenges of the present. Against this backdrop, industries are more and more prone to taking sustainability aspects into account.…
The COVID-19 crisis is an unprecedented one in terms of its reach and pervasiveness, and it exposed the vulnerabilities of the global social, political, and economic system. That said, its impact on countries has been uneven and this unevenness depended heavily on the position countries were in immediately prior to the crisis. In Turkey, the key issue of youth un/employment emerged as one of the long-lasting ones since it was a major challenge before the crisis. Policy-making emerged as another key issue as the ability to generate long-term planning escaped Turkey and countries alike for a while. Regardless of when we will get past the pandemic, the post-COVID-19 world will be an extremely difficult one.
Interview with 2020 John McMenemy Prize Nominees Paul Thomas and JP Lewis; “Executive Creep in Canadian Provincial Legislatures”. Please give us a nutshell summary of your nominated article, “Executive Creep in Canadian Provincial Legislatures”.…
Interview with 2020 John McMenemy Prize Nominee Eric Helleiner; “Conservative Economic Nationalism and the National Policy: Rae, Buchanan and Early Canadian Protectionist Thought.”…
Interview with 2020 John McMenemy Prize Nominees Luc Turgeon, Antoine Bilodeau, Stephen E. White and Ailsa Henderson; “A Tale of Two Liberalisms?…
We live in an age of great political fortunes. It is hardly the first. During the 1860s and 1870s, party politics was an enticing way for the ambitious to get rich quick.
We are honored to officially start our editorship of the American Political Science Review. We do so with great excitement, but also with some solemnity.…
Let’s face it – stepping (sitting) in front of a camera has become a staple component of working from home during the global pandemic.…
The world is currently facing the most serious health crisis in more than a century. While virtually all countries have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, there is some variation in the spread of the virus and the extent to which it has disrupted societies and economies.…
Drawing upon his Open Access article in vol.5, no.1 of the European Journal of International Security, Patrick A. Mello explores the withdrawal of democracies from the Iraq war as a form of coalition defection.…
Referencing his article in vol.5, no.1 of the European Journal of International Security, Matthew Ford explores the roles of science and technology in warfare.…
Referencing their article in Volume 5, Number 1 of the European Journal of International Security, Soul Park and Kimberly Peh explore the nuances of North Korea’s nuclear diplomacy.…
When a "nightmare dressed like a daydream" meets "mad, bad, and dangerous to know..."
Today is the 200th anniversary of Byron's death, the original tortured poet, and the release of @taylorswift13's new album.
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Congratulations to Michael Byers, Aaron Boley and Ignacio Cofone who have been shortlisted for the 2023 Donner Prize.
The award, for the best public policy book by a Canadian, will be announced in May.
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'We are aware that infusion fluids can both save and hurt patients'.
Find out about modern Fluid Therapy in this week's featured author blog by Professor Robert Hahn
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