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Zero-Sum Politics: Ruling Parties and Political Opposition in Nigeria
Political parties are the gatekeepers of democracy. This is because it is almost impossible to operate a representative government without the...
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Group Consciousness and the Politics of American Indians
Group consciousness is a pivotal concept used to understand the politics of many racial and ethnic groups. Originating from the study of African...
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Regional powers and the politics of scale
This article discusses the usefulness of studying regional powers through a ‘politics-of-scale’ lens. We argue that this approach, borrowed from...
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Closing the Gender Gap in Internal Political Efficacy? Gender Roles and the Masculine Ethos of Politics in Spain
Given women’s gains in employment, education, and economic status, the persistent gender gap in internal political efficacy remains a puzzle for...
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Party Politics
Party politics is an essential aspect of democracy and elections everywhere. Nigerian presidential elections, like other elections around the world,...
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Racism and global war in world politics: As obvious as it is ignored
Contemporaneous theorizing of the Howard School of IR theory on the role of white supremacism in WWI implied a more general relationship between...
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Game Theory in Politics
Game theory has become an indispensable tool in international politics, offering valuable insights into the complex and strategic decision-making...
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The reinvention of consensus politics: governing without a legislative majority in the Netherlands 2010–2021
For most of the twentieth century, Dutch governments commanded majorities in both houses of parliament, but after 2010 they mostly lack majorities in...
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Interest groups, local politics, and police unions
Police unions raise issues of great importance for political scientists. Yet, the field has neglected them. This essay argues that political...
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Competitive Loss, Gendered Backlash and Sexism in Politics
Politics is often seen as a zero-sum game, so understanding how competition affects political behavior is a fruitful, yet underexplored area of...
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The politics of ECB’s economic ideas and its implications for European economic governance: embedding a resilient EMU from the top-down?
By focusing on ECB’s economic policy thinking and its internal politics of ideas, this research aims to provide two contributions to knowledge....
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Introduction—The Qurative Turn in Global Politics
There is no longer any serious contender to quration as central approach to social science. Nonetheless, it is worthwhile to recount the developments...
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Interest Groups, Local Politics, and Police Unions
Police unions raise issues of great importance for political scientists. Yet, the field has neglected them. This essay argues that political...
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The strength of a weak centre: pandemic politics in the European Union and the United States
The European Union presents a puzzle to political systems scholars: how can a develo** polity, with all its attendant functional weaknesses, be...
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Forest Politics from Below in Europe
In Austria, Germany, France, Poland, Romania, Sweden, and Switzerland social movements and citizen initiatives engage, motivated by environmental...
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Jeremy Bentham’s Politics of Global Commerce as a Limit-Case
In this chapter, Benjamin Bourcier argues that Bentham’s politics of global commerce evolved from enlightenment cosmopolitanism aspirations to...
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Politics and Presidential Elections
The chapter analytically examines the various presidential elections from 1999 to 2023, taking into account the circumstances surrounding each...
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Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose? Revisiting Dennis Austin’s Politics in Ghana, 1946–1960, in the Light of the Politics of the Fourth Republic
Just two years after the publication of Politics in Ghana, 1946–1960 (PG, 46–60), the First Republic collapsed. The Second and Third Republics faced...
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The Politics of Culture
The cultural turn in the social sciences of the 1970s had a profound impact in Latin America and led to the emergence of a cultural political economy...
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Toward a Universal Theory of International Politics: Building on a Unified Concept of Power
The three major paradigms of international relations (Realism, Constructivism, Neoliberalism) have for too long fought a spurious war (Gallarotti,...