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Volume 141 - Number 3 - Fall 2026
How Has the Conflict in Ukraine Influenced the Balance Between Strategic Autonomy and International Cooperation in Spain's Defense Industrial Policy?
Margarita del Castillo examines how the Ukraine conflict has influenced Spain’s defense industrial policy and its ability to balance strategic national autonomy with international defense cooperation.
Supreme Court Influence on Political Party Agendas and Policy Development, 1952–2016
Logan Strother discusses the influence of the Supreme Court on the agendas of national parties and argues that agenda influence is a key pathway of indirect policy influence.
Where India and China Meet: Competing Regional Statecraft in Southeast Asia
Xue Gong and Daniel Balazs look at China’s and India’s regional policies in South Asia and explore disparities in the motivations, approaches, and outcomes of their regional statecraft.
We Designed Donald Trump's Election
Lawrence Jacobs tracks the institutional changes that cleared the way for Trump’s rise by focusing on two seminal historical junctures during the Progressive Era and after the Democratic Party’s 1968 Chicago Convention.
A Presidency Transformed, A Democracy in Danger
William G. Howell and TERRY M. MOE reflect on the implication of the core argument of their published Trajectory of Power: The Rise of the Strongman Presidency for Trump’s second term as well as for the years after.
The End of the Revolution
Kenneth Lowande reviews Trajectory of Power: The Rise of the Strongman Presidency by William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe. He argues that the book raises significant questions about how scholars should respond to this historical moment.
Media, Communication, and Democratic Decline: Thoughts on The Paradox of Democracy
Regina G. Lawrence reviews The Paradox of Democracy: Free Speech, Open Media, and Perilous Persuasion by Zac Gershberg and Sean Illing and argues that it stirs important debate about the fate of democracy around the world.
Race, Interests, and Perceptions in International Migration: A Review Article
Michael Orlando Sharpe reviews Andrew Rosenberg’s Undesirable Immigrants: Why Racism Persists in International Migration and discusses race in international migration from the perspective of international relations.
Formulas for Autocratic Stability: A Review Article
MIN-HUA HUANG, OSBERN HUANG, and Chi-Hsien Kuo draw on Johannes Gerschewski’s The Two Logics of Autocratic Rule to explore the complexities of autocratic stability.
Collegial Virtues and Vises
ROBERT J. HUME reviews The Elevator Effect by Morgan L. W. Hazelton, Rachael K. Hinkle, and Michael J. Nelson and reflects on the authors’ premise that collegiality is a central determinant of judicial behavior.
Promoting Professionalism, Provoking Precarity: Security Assistance and the Risk of Military Coups
Christopher Darnton reviews Adam Casey’s Up in Arms: How Military Aid Stabilizes—and Destabilizes—Foreign Autocrats and contextualizes its findings within the broader security assistance literature.
The Challenges of Constructing the Supreme Court by the Numbers: A Review Article
Michael J. Gerhardt reviews Making the Supreme Court: The Politics of Appointments, 1930–2020 by Charles M. Cameron and John P. Kastellec and argues that the book raises but does not resolve several important questions.
What Constitutes an American Racial Institutional Order? Review Article on America's New Racial Battle Lines: Protect Versus Repair
Jennifer Hochschild describes the arguments and evidence in America’s New Racial Battle Lines: Protect versus Repair by Rogers M. Smith and Desmond King.
The Hidden Face of Local Power: Appointed Boards and the Limits of Democracy, Mirya R. Holman
Reviewed by Connor Halloran Phillips
A Good Reputation: How Residents Fight for an American Barrio, Elizabeth Korver-Glenn and Sarah Mayorga
Reviewed by Whitney Gecker
Disrupting Political Science: Black Women Reimagining the Discipline, Angela K. Lewis-Maddox
Reviewed by Jasmine Noelle Yarish
Living Off the Government? Race, Gender, and the Politics of Welfare, Anne M. Whitesell
Reviewed by Lucia Lopez
The Politics of Public Pensions: Parties, State Governments, and Unions, Carolyn Abott
Reviewed by John Brooks
Every Firm for Itself: Corporate Lobbying and the Domestic Politics of Intra-Industry Trade, Mary Anne Madeira
Reviewed by Iain Osgood
Judges, Judging, and Judgment: Character, Wisdom, and Humility in a Polarized World, Chad M. Oldfather
Reviewed by Sara C. Benesh
Legitimating Nationalism: Political Identity in Russia's Ethnic Republics, Katie L. Stewart
Reviewed by Pål Kolstø
Inside Criminalized Governance: How and Why Gangs Rule the Streets of Rio de Janeiro, Nicholas Barnes
Reviewed by Melissa Martinez
Contesting Pluralism(s): Islamism, Liberalism and Nationalism in Turkey and Beyond, Nora Fisher-Onar
Reviewed by Yagmur Karakaya
Overseen or Overlooked? Legislators, Armed Forces, and Democratic Accountability, David P. Auerswald , Philippe Lagassé and Stephen M. Saideman
Reviewed by Erica De Bruin
Varieties of Power: Women’s Political Representation in Arab Parliaments, Marwa Shalaby
Reviewed by Yuree Noh
The Banker Ladies: Vanguards of Solidarity Economics and Community-Based Banks, Caroline Shenaz Hossein
Reviewed by Jonathan Morduch
Tides of Fortune: The Rise and Decline of Great Militaries, Zack Cooper
Reviewed by Lionel Beehner
How Russians Understand the New Russia: Consolidation and Contestation, Paul Chaisty and Stephen Whitefield
Reviewed by Henry E. Hale
Good Change: The Rise and Fall of Poland's Illiberal Revolution, Stanley Bill and Ben Stanley
Reviewed by Anna Gwiazda
Cooperative Complexity: The Next Level of Global Economic Governance, Richard Clark
Reviewed by Tyler Pratt
Local Peace, International Builders: How UN Peacekeeping Builds Peace from the Bottom Up, William G. Nomikos
Reviewed by Anjali Dayal
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