Volume 139 - Number 4 - Winter 2024-25
The Rhetorical Post-presidency: Former Presidents as Elite Cue Givers Gregory H. Winger AND Alex Oliver examine the degree to which former presidents can remain prominent political actors. They argue that their post-presidential influence is an outgrowth of the informal powers of the presidency.
Volume 139 - Number 4 - Winter 2024-25
Winners, Losers, and Voter Confidence in Response to Partisan Electoral Reform M. V. Hood AND SETH C. MCKEE analyze individual- and state-level voter confidence in Georgia from 2020 to 2022. They argue that asymmetric changes in voter confidence based on party identification are principally tied to election outcomes.
Volume 139 - Number 4 - Winter 2024-25
Abortion Opinion and Partisan Choice: Untangling the Causal Dynamics
Volume 139 - Number 4 - Winter 2024-25
The Transatlantic Relationship and the Russia-Ukraine War Veronica Anghel AND Erik Jones discuss the implications of the Russia-Ukraine war on transatlantic relations. They argue that the renewed sense of solidarity among NATO allies does not translate into a “new era of transatlantic partnership,” as that would require a more coherent vision of Western interests.
Volume 139 - Number 3 - Fall 2024
The Effects of Violence against U.S. Officeholders Sue Thomas discuss the effects of violence on U.S. office holders. They use an original survey of mayors in the U.S. cities to explore the individual costs of psychological and physical violence. They find that of the mayors who suffered violence (95 percent), the more violence reported, the more likely they were to have incurred individual costs, including emotional upset, diverted attention from the job, and considerations about leaving it.
Volume 139 - Number 3 - Fall 2024
How Far-Right Extremism Changed American Body Politic
Volume 139 - Number 3 - Fall 2024
Foreign-imposed Regime Change and the American War in Afghanistan JASON BROWNLEE asks why did America’s twenty-year war in Afghanistan fail to establish a self-sustaining non-Taliban government? The author argues that the U.S. influence depended on the prospects for integrating old regime elites into the new government and on the strength on indigenous opposition forces. Both variables were unfavorable in Afghanistan and they shaped the boundaries of political order no matter how hard U.S. forces fought or how long they stayed.
Volume 139 - Number 2 - Summer 2024
Youth, Generations, and Generational Research Generation Gap: Why the Baby Boomers Still Dominate American Politics and Culture by Kevin Munger. She discusses the history of generational research as well as recent work about younger cohorts to provide context for understand both the strengths and weaknesses of the book and argues that the field is richer with Munger’s contribution, but that many critical questions remain.
Volume 139 - Number 2 - Summer 2024
An Anatomy Lesson for Democrats How Democracies Live: Power, Statecraft, and Freedom in Modern Societies . Huq argues that the book inverts the ordinary ‘order of battle’ found in this body of scholarship and, in doing so, generates the question: do we gain more or less insight into the mechanisms and cure for democratic backsliding by starting big (and general), or are we better off reasoning from specific facts?
Volume 139 - Number 2 - Summer 2024
Coronavirus and Culture War: Blunders, Defiance, and Glimmers of Solidarity James A. Morone reviews Danielle Allen’s Democracy in a Time of Coronavirus and traces how and why public health fell into the American culture wars. He notes the evolution of a social welfare safety net that emerged during the crisis and concludes by summarizing the epidemic’s toll on Americans.
