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.

Fear and the First Amendment: Controversial Cases of the Roberts Court, Craig R. Smith
Reviewed by Eric T. Kasper

The Uncertainty Doctrine: Narrative Politics, and US Hard Power after the Cold War, Alexandra Homolar
Reviewed by JARROD HAYES

Reforming the Reform: Problems of Public Schooling in the American Welfare State, Susan L. Moffitt, Michaela Krug O’Neill and David K. Cohen
Reviewed by Cathie Jo Martin

Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action, Dana R. Fisher
Reviewed by Jan Wilkens

The Politics of Immigration Beyond Liberal States, Katharina Natter
Reviewed by EKREM KARAKOC

Empowering Labor: Leftist Approaches to Wage Policy in Unequal Democracies, Juan A. Bogliaccini
Reviewed by Eleonora Pasotti

Designed to Fail: Why Racial Equity in School Funding Is So Hard to Achieve, Roseann Liu
Reviewed by Christopher M. Saldaña

The Price of Empire: American Entrepreneurs and the Origins of America's First Pacific Empire, Miles M. Evers and Eric Grynaviski
Reviewed by Paul K. MacDonald

Pot for Profit: Cannabis Legalization, Racial Capitalism, and the Expansion of the Carceral State, Joseph Mello
Reviewed by Noah S. Schwartz

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino: Lessons for Governing Post-Industrial Cities, Wilbur Rich
Reviewed by Sharon Austin

When the Bombs Stopped: The Legacy of War in Rural Cambodia, Erin Lin
Reviewed by Juan Felipe Riaño

Presidential Performance in the Progressive Era: Leadership Style from McKinley to Wilson, Fred I. Greenstein and Dale Anderson
Reviewed by Laurie L. Rice

Beyond Left, Right, and Center: The Politics of Gender and Ethnicity in Contemporary Germany, Christina Xydias
Reviewed by Sabine Lang

Coming to Terms with the European Refugee Crisis, Hanspeter Kriesi, Argyrios Altiparmakis, Ábel Bojár and Ioana-Elena Oana
Reviewed by Deanna Martin

Voter Backlash and Elite Misperception: The Logic of Violence in Electoral Competition, Steven C. Rosenzweig
Reviewed by Kathleen Klaus

Propaganda in Autocracies: Institutions, Information, and the Politics of Belief, Erin Baggott Carter and Brett L. Carter
Reviewed by Daniela Stockmann

Devotion to the Administrative State: Religion and Social Order in Egypt, Mona Oraby
Reviewed by Simon Wolfgang Fuchs

Making Space for the Gulf, Arang Keshavarzian
Reviewed by Zahra Babar

The Apathy of Empire: Cambodia in American Geopolitics, James A. Tyner
Reviewed by Sophal Ear

Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History, Thomas Barfield
Reviewed by Ayse Zarakol