Volume 135 - Number 3 - Fall 2020
Integration: A Key for Progress in Our Increasingly Diverse Country Jaleel Howard and Pedro Noguera review the recently published Children on the Dram: Why School Integration Works and A Single Garment: Creating Intentionally Diverse Schools That Benefit All Children . They find that through in-depth analysis the books provide substantial evidence supporting the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision and the need for diverse schools. They argue that integration is not only a valuable tool in child development, but also essential for the future of American democracy.
Volume 135 - Number 3 - Fall 2020
Political Trust in Nonconsolidated Democracies: The Turkish Case in Comparative Perspective Kursat Cinar and Tekin Kose explore individual- and country-level determinants of political trust in 17 nonconsolidated democracies with particular emphasis on the case of Turkey. They situate their findings in the growing body of literature on political trust, identifying similarities and differences, and offer insights on the correlates of political trust throughout the world.
Volume 135 - Number 3 - Fall 2020
Going Nuclear: The Promises and Perils of Nuclear Energy in China Il Hyun Cho discusses China’s pursuit of nuclear energy and identifies domestic political legitimacy and geopolitical ambitions as key factors shaping Beijing’s policy. He argues that China’s nuclear drive raises questions about nuclear safety and proliferation.
Volume 135 - Number 3 - Fall 2020
That “Special Something”: The U.S.-Australia Alliance, Special Relationships, and Emotions Lloyd Cox and BRENDON O’CONNOR challenge the common realist assumption that emotions are irrelevant for understanding inter-state relations. They examine the notion of special relationships in international politics. They develop a distinctive approach to the collectivization of emotions within and between states and apply this to the U.S.-Australia
Volume 135 - Number 4 - Winter 2020-21
Religious Parties and Ideological Change: A Comparison of Iran and Turkey Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar and A.Kadir Yildirim examine ideological change within religious parties in Iran and Turkey. They argue that these political parties actively and continuously shift ideological discourse in response to their political context.
Volume 135 - Number 4 - Winter 2020-21
The Emergence of a Latino Political Ethnicity: 1990 to the Era of Trump Alan Yang examines how ordinary U.S. Latinos of different national origin ancestries have become an increasingly cohesive panethnic political group since the time of the 1990 Latino National Political Survey. He argues that this trend towards increasing convergence across national origin has been both reinforced and disrupted on questions related to politically relevant sentiments and perceptions two years into the Trump presidency.
Volume 135 - Number 3 - Fall 2020
Limits of the Conservative Revolution in the States
Volume 135 - Number 2 - Summer 2020
Foreign Policy Dilemmas and Opportunities for a New Administration: An Opinion Piece Robert Jervis speculates about the likely foreign policy that a Democratic administration will follow if its candidate wins in November. He argues that President Donald Trump will have left a difficult legacy and his successor will have to simultaneously rebuild trust and instructions while also utilizing the leverage that Trump has generated.
Volume 135 - Number 2 - Summer 2020
Neighborhood Defenders: Participatory Politics and America’s Housing Crisis Maxwell Palmer use a wide array of administrative, elite survey, and qualitative data to show how neighborhood participation in the housing permitting process exacerbates existing political inequalities, limits the housing supply, and contributes to the current affordable housing crisis.
Volume 135 - Number 2 - Summer 2020
Do Campaign Events Matter? New Evidence from Voting Advice Applications Yannick Dufresne leverage the extraordinarily large samples of public opinion collected by Voting Advice Application to examine the granular effects of campaign events on electoral outcomes. Drawing on the case of the 2011 Canadian federal election, they demonstrate how particular events that took place during the campaign contributed to the so-called ‘Orange Wave’ which catapulted the historically third party NDP into Official Opposition status.
