What Is My Duty as a Voter?: Frederick Douglass's Framework for the Civic Responsibility of Voting
ZACHARY GERMAN analyzes the speeches and writing of Frederick Douglass. He argues that Douglass develops a general framework on how citizens can fulfill the civic responsibility of voting.

Perceptions, Reality, and Tolerance for Voting Wait Times in American Elections and Their Consequences for Democracy
Costas Panagopoulos and Philip Moniz look at voter perceptions of wait time and willingness to wait. They find discrepancies between who expects and who is willing to wait through longer lines to cast their ballot.

Declining U.S. Soft Power in East Asia: Evaluations of the U.S. COVID-19 Response by Citizens of China, Japan, and South Korea
Yida Zhai examines how Chinese, Japanese, and South Korean citizens evaluated the U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic. They find that the public in China reacted differently than their counterparts and argue that the findings highlight the significance of the political-psychological factors.

A Cross-National Analysis of Trust and Support for Pandemic Response Measures
James D. Bryan and A. Carl LeVan uses survey data from 57 countries to analyze the relationship between political trust and public reaction to public health recommendations during COVID-19. They find that political trust across different institutions predicts support for policies seeking to manage health risks.

Can Credibility Overcome Elite Polarization?
DANIEL HOPKINS and Gall O. Sigler review Uncertain Futures: How to Unlock the Climate Impasse by Alexander Gazmararian and Dustin Tingley. They argue that the book provides a much-needed view of the energy transition from the ground-up and reflects on the limited attention given to the principal-agent problem.

Protest and Legislative Behavior in Perilous Times
LORRAINE MINNITE discusses the contributions that The Advantage of the Disadvantage by LaGina Gause makes to the study of social movements and reflects on the dynamics of contention of contemporary rightwing political movements.

The New Urban Rebellions: A Review Article
Jeff Goodwin reviews The Revolutionary City by Mark R. Beissinger. He highlights the arguments on the decline of social revolutions and the rise of a new kind of rebellion, which the author calls the urban civic revolt.

Danielle Allen's Design for Democracy: A Review Essay
David Johnston critically evaluates Danielle Allen’s Justice by Means of Democracy. He observes that the policy proposals advanced in the book to strengthen participatory constitutional democracy could benefit from further clarity on principles, institutions, and democratic practices.

Can Public Policy Influence Public Opinion? Studying Feedback Effects and Elite Influence Using the Affordable Care Act
MICHAEL SANCES reviews Stable Condition by Daniel J. Hopkins. He highlights the key contributions of the book to the literature on policy feedback and reflects on the book’s conclusions of opinion stability.

Cities on a Hill: American Religious Exceptionalism and White Christian Nationalism
Clyde Wilcox reviews The Everyday Crusade: Christian Nationalism in American Politics by Eric L. McDaniel, Irfan Nooruddin and Allyson F. Shortle. He reflects on the book’s contributions to the study of American politics, public opinion analysis, and the impact of American religious exceptionalism on public attitudes toward national and international issues.

Divergent Democracy: How Policy Positions Came to Dominate Party Competition, Katherine Krimmel
Reviewed by Frances Lee

Nations Before the Nation-State: Between City-State and Empire from Antiquity to the Present, Anna Marisa Schön
Reviewed by Ryan D. Griffiths

The Art of State Persuasion: China's Strategic Use of Media in Interstate Disputes, Frances Yaping Wang
Reviewed by Rachel Hulvey

Redefining the Political: Black Feminism and the Politics of Everyday Life, Alex J. Moffett-Bateau
Reviewed by Julia Jordan-Zachery

The Holy Alliance: Liberalism and the Politics of Federation, Isaac Nakhimovsky
Reviewed by Aaron L. Herold

Cyber Sovereignty: The Future of Governance in Cyberspace, Lucie Kadlecová
Reviewed by Erica D. Lonergan

Faith in Rights: Christian-Inspired NGOs at Work in the United Nations, Amélie Barras
Reviewed by Susan McCarthy

The 1976 House Majority Leadership Contest: Stepping Stone in the Transition to Conditional Party Government, Robert L. Peabody and Bruce I. Oppenheimer
Reviewed by Anthony J. Madonna

Faith and Community: How Engagement Strengthens Members, Places of Worship, and Society, Rebecca A. Glazier
Reviewed by Jeremiah J. Castle

Building the Black City: The Transformation of American Life, Joe William Trotter, Jr
Reviewed by Andrea Benjamin

The Kazakh Spring: Digital Activism and the Challenge to Dictatorship, Diana T. Kudaibergen
Reviewed by Edward Schatz

Resistance as Negotiation: Making States and Tribes in the Margins of Modern India, Uday Chandra
Reviewed by Abhishek Chatterjee

UN Mediators in Syria: The Challenges and Responsibilities of Conflict Resolution, Fadi Nicholas Nassar
Reviewed by Hannah M. Smidt

The Haves and Have-Nots in Supreme Court Representation and Participation, 2016 to 2021, Anna Gunderson and Kirsten Widner
Reviewed by Rachael K. Hinkle

Indicators of Democracy: The Politics and Promise of Evaluation Expertise in Mexico, Diana Graizbord
Reviewed by Jonathan Fox

Lottocracy: Democracy Without Elections, Alexander Guerrero
Reviewed by Juri Ardiantoro

Erdogan's Path to Authoritarianism: The Continuing Journey, Michael M. Gunter
Reviewed by Dimitar Bechev

Challenging Inequality: Variation Across Postindustrial Societies, Evelyne Huber and John D. Stephens
Reviewed by Charlotte Cavaillé

Party Transformation in Congressional Primaries: Faction and Ideology in the Twenty-First Century, Mike Cowburn
Reviewed by Seth Masket