Volume 137 - Number 4 - Winter 2022-23

The Polarized American Electorate: The Rise of Partisan-Ideological Consistency and Its Consequences
Alan I. Abramowitz presents evidence from American National Election Studies surveys showing that party identification, ideological identification and issue positions have become much more closely connected over the past half century. He argues that as a result, the ideological divide between Democratic and Republican identifiers has widened considerably. The rise of partisan-ideological consistency has contributed to growing affective polarization as well as increasing party loyalty and straight ticket voting.

Power Shifts: Congress and Presidential Representation, John A. Dearborn
Reviewed by Jeffrey Crouch

American Political Thought: An Invitation, Ken Kersch
Reviewed by Loren Goldman

Firepower: How the NRA Turned Gun Owners into a Political Force, Matthew J. Lacombe
Reviewed by Leslie K. Finger

Volume 137 - Number 3 - Fall 2022

Assessing Futures Intelligence: Looking Back on Global Trends 2025
James J. Wirtz and ROGER Z. GEORGE offer an assessment of the forecasts contained in Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World, an unclassified report produced by the National Intelligence Council. They identify several analytical biases that shaped this effort at futures intelligence and one critical factor that is not adequately considered in U.S. futures estimates in general and Global Trends 2025 in particular.

Changing Their Minds? Donald Trump and Presidential Leadership, George C. Edwards III
Reviewed by Douglas L. Kriner

Where Great Powers Meet: America and China in Southeast Asia, David Shambaugh
Reviewed by Bonny Lin

Fighting the First Wave: Why the Coronavirus Was Tackled So Differently across the Globe, Peter Baldwin
Reviewed by Scott Greer

Civic Gifts: Voluntarism and the Making of the American Nation-State, Elisabeth S. Clemens
Reviewed by Michael J. Illuzzi

The Women of 2018: The Pink Wave in the US House Elections… and Its Legacy in 2020, Barbara Burrell
Reviewed by Emily Baer

Informing a Nation: The Newspaper Presidency of Thomas Jefferson, Mel Laracey
Reviewed by Simon Gilhooley