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Youth and Populism: A Scoping Review - Giorgio Dolci, 2026 This scoping review maps the rapidly expanding literature on the relationship between youth and populism, revealing a field that is empirically rich yet concept...

🎙️Author Interview Series🎙️ Episode 3!

In this episode, Mark Kaye speaks with Giorgio Dolci regarding his article: Youth and Populism: A Scoping Review

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📖📖Commissioned Book Review: Mathias Koenig-Archibugi, The Universal Republic: A Realistic Utopia?📖📖

By Luis Cabrera

'Advocates of global democracy have long made a case for its feasibility, but an empirically thin one. This book fills that gap admirably.'

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Party Preferences as a Polarizing Factor During the COVID-19 crisis? The Evidence From Panel Survey

By Tomas Cirhan, Ph.D. & @stauberj.bsky.social

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Stereotype Crossroads: Investigating the Interplay of Gender and Religious Symbols in Shaping Political Gender Stereotypes in Flanders (Belgium), Turkey and the UK - Robin Devroe, Berfin Çakin, 2026 An extensive literature on women’s access to political power, drawing primarily from work on Western democracies, suggests a variety of conditions that lead to ...

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Stereotype Crossroads: Investigating the Interplay of Gender and Religious Symbols in Shaping Political Gender Stereotypes in Flanders (Belgium), Turkey and the UK

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High Support for Austerity in Principle, Low Support in Practice: The Impact of Austerity Measures on Preferences for Austerity Policies

By Merve Biten-Butorac, Wouter van der Brug & @theresakuhn.bsky.social

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The Priority Question and Its Solutions: Debates About Political Normativity - Gang Wang, 2026 Kreutz explicitly categorises the debates about political normativity into two questions: the distinctness question (Q1), which asks whether there is distinctiv...

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The Priority Question and Its Solutions: Debates About Political Normativity

By Gang Wang

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Open Seats, Incumbency, Campaign Spending and Electoral Success in Legislative Elections: Evidence from Chile’s Open-List Proportional Representation System

By A.A Martínez & @patricionavia.bsky.social
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Have you seen the PSR's Best Original Research Article and Best Short-Form Article Prize Nominees yet?!?

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📖Interested in reviewing a book for us?📖

We have a long list of fantastic books we are looking to have reviewed!

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'Militant Regimes: International Conflict During State of Emergencies'

By Emine Ari

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🎆Congratulations to the PSR's Best Original Research Article and Best Short-Form Article Prize Nominees!!🎆

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📖Commissioned Book Review📖

Manash Ghosh, Mujib’s Blunders: The Power and The Plot Behind His Killing

By Dibyajyoti Dutta

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Bryan Nelson, Democracy and Defiance: Rancière, Lefort, Abensour and the Antinomies of Politics

By ilhan Bilici

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@louisetillin.bsky.social, Making India Work: The Development of Welfare in a Multi-Level Democracy

By Akanksha Sanil

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United We Stand? Populism and Party Cohesion: A Comparative Study

By Marco Lisi

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🆕State of the Art Article🆕

Exploring the Interplay Between Democratic Innovations and Social Sustainability: A Scoping Review

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João Moniz, @robertofalanga.bsky.social & José Duarte Ribeiro

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Power in the Anthropocene Power in the Anthropocene

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📖Commissioned Book Review📖

Lars Tønder Power in the Anthropocene

By Kate Long

'the book uses new materialism thinking to move beyond conventional theories of power by emphasising the entanglement of humans and non-humans in the Anthropocene.'

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After some well deserved time off over the holidays, our editors are now back to work! If you're interested in publishing with us, check out our submissions guidelines:

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YouTube video by Political Studies Review PSR Author Interview: The Limits of Alarm

🎙️Author Interview Series🎙️ Ep 2

In this episode we speak to @tonirodon.bsky.social @mguinjoan.bsky.social & Cèlia Estruch-Garcia about their article:

The Limits of Alarm: How Climate Scenarios Fail to Increase Willingness to Act and Pay for Climate Change Policies

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We will not be processing new submissions between 19th December and 5th of January, while our editorial team take some well deserved rest over the holiday period.

See you in 2026!

Does National Voting Experience During High School Form a Voting Habit? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in South Korea - Hoyong Jung, 2025 This study examines whether high school seniors develop voting habits after their initial experience with national voting by leveraging a natural experimental s...

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Does National Voting Experience During High School Form a Voting Habit? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in South Korea

By Hoyong Jung

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International Migrants Day

In light of International Migrants Day tomorrow, the PSR's Editorial Team invites you to explore some key contemporary issues relating to international migration with this virtual collection:

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How Human Coding Is Used and Described - William O’Brochta, 2025 Human coding remains an important part of the data-generating process for many political scientists. Yet, we lack a systematic understanding of how researchers ...

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YouTube video by Political Studies Review Author Interview William O'Brochta How Human Coding Is Used and Described

PSR have launched our new Author Interview Series!

Kicking off our inaugural episode, our Senior Research Associate Mark Kaye speaks with Dr William O'Brochta, Ph.D., regarding his State-of-the-Art research article: 'How Human Coding is Used and Described.'

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