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Volume 140 - Number 2 - Summer 2025

Articles

What Moves Public Support for Aid to Ukraine? Issue Attention, Partisanship, and Normative Appeals
Timothy Frye examines public support for U.S. aid to Ukraine using a survey experiment. He finds that respondents most likely to be moved by appeals for or against aid to Ukraine, are also those paying the least attention to the issue. The finding suggests that it will be difficult to move public attitudes on support for aid to Ukraine.

The New Satanic Panic
JOSEPH USCINKSI AND COAUTHORS analyze data from a national survey and find that large percentages of Americans believe accusations of the “new Satanic panic” that started in 2022 by conservative leaders. The argue that the beliefs are positively correlated with dark psychological traits, inclinations toward violence, an interest in attaining political office, and positive views of extremist groups, foreign adversaries, and Donald Trump.

Lobbyists and Their Obligation to the Public Interest
THOMAS HOLYOKE analyzes whether lobbyists have an obligation to serve the public interest in addition to promoting policies reflecting the review of the interest groups or corporate clients that they represent. He argues that because lobbying is protected by the Constitution, lobbyists have a reciprocal duty to serve the public interest.

Food and Food Security in the US Security Strategy (1987–2022)
MARCO CLEMENTI undertakes a qualitative and quantitative content analysis of the National Security Strategies published between 1987 and 2022 to compare the ways different U.S. administrations have conceptualized and acted upon food security. He argues that food security is a consistent issue in U.S. strategic discourse and that the reasons for this consistency vary across administrations.

Review Essay: Donald Trump, Charismatic Leadership and the “Deep State”
SIDNEY MILKIS reviews John Campbell’s Institutions Under Siege: Donald Trump’s Attack on the Deep State. He argues that the first Trump presidency and its aftermath were a symptom of long-standing changes in the relationship between the presidency and the party system and considers why the presidency itself might be a polarizing institution.

Bureaucratic Autonomy and the Performance of International Institutions
EDWARD MANSFIELD evaluates the arguments and empirical evidence in Making International Institutions Work: The Politics of Performance by Ranjit Lall. He discusses five broader issues raised in the book and offers some directions future research on international organizations.

America before 1787: A Review Article
Stéphanie Novak reviews America Before 1787: The Unraveling of a Colonial Regime by Jon Elster. She explores the book’s main themes including the tension between freedom of choice, fear, and constraint and the mechanisms by which such tension can be analyzed.

Tradition, Transformation, and Democratic Education
Susan McWilliams Barndt critically evaluates Molly Farneth’s The Politics of Rituals. She argues that traditional values of the traditional should be just as important to progressives in the United States today.

The Tragedy of School Desegregation
Christine Rossell reviews The Crucible of Desegregation, The Uncertain Search for Educational Equality by R. Shep Melnick. She sees it as an impressive encyclopedic account of the legal, social, and political history of school desegregation and the search for educational equality.

The Myth of the “Triple Win”: Questioning the Impact of Immigration on Immigrants, Origin, and Destination Countries
Jeannette Money reviews David Leblang and Benjamin Helm’s The Ties That Bind: Immigration and the Global Political Economy and places in the context of the research on migration and development.

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