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📖📖Commissioned Book Review: Helen Beetham and John Schwarzmantel, Deformations of Democracy: David Beetham in Contemporary Politics📖📖 By Chris Smith Read the full review here:
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📊The Null Hypothesis📊 Timeless Tactics or Modern Misfires: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Established Voter Engagement Methods in US Local Elections By
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🙌🙌We've had an unbelievable response to our call for Commissioned Book reviews! Thank you to all of you that have already reviewed a book with us. But, with so many fantastic books coming out, we need even more reviewers! 🙌🙌 Contact our editor Dr Dafydd Townley:
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✨Online First:✨ Too Many to Fight: Elite Free Riding and the Origins of Personalism(🔓Open Access & Free to Read!🔓) By José Kaire 'Why do powerful elites in authoritarian regimes so often fail to resist autocratic power grabs?'
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📕📕Commissioned Book Review: Vivienne Jabri, Worlds in Conflict: War and the Limits of Politics📕📕 By Emma Keller Read the full review here:
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🙌🙌We've had an unbelievable response to our call for Commissioned Book reviews! Thank you to all of you that have already reviewed a book with us. But, with so many fantastic books coming out, we need even more reviewers! 🙌🙌 Contact our editor Dr Dafydd Townley:
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✨Online First:✨ A Bigger World or a Bigger Room? Internet Access, Political Affiliation, and Online Expression in China (🔓Open Access & Free to Read!🔓) By Lumin Fang & Tianguang Meng Available to read here:
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📖📖Commissioned Book Review: C. G. Ang, Singapore’s Grand Strategy📖📖 By
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📖📖Commissioned Book Review:
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The New Nuclear Age: At the Precipice of Armageddon📖📖 By Kalviri Bahram ✨✨The book’s analytical clarity and historical range make it essential reading...✨✨ Full review:
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📖📖Commissioned Book Review: Gürcan EC and Donduran C, China on the Rise: The Transformation of Structural Power in the Era of Multipolarity📖📖 By Ahmet Gedik full review here:
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🔔Online First! 🔔Open Access and Free to Read!🔓 A Cure for ‘Populism’? Diagnostic and Prognostic Framing in Anti-Populist Political Punditry You can read the full article here:
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A Cure for ‘Populism’? Diagnostic and Prognostic Framing in Anti-Populist Political Punditry - Alex Yates, 2026
Despite growing scholarly interest in anti-populism, the remedies proposed by anti-populists to counter ‘populism’ remain underexplored. I address this gap by e...
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🔔Online First! 🔔Open Access and Free to Read!🔓 Reclaiming Basic Income: A Republican-Socialist Path to Freedom By Julen Bollain Urbieta & Daniel Raventos 📖You can read the article here:📖
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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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📊Early Results📊 Open Access and Free to Read!🔓 Activist Biographies: Youth Activist Careers and Transformations in Political Engagement in Spain By Myriam Aarab & Gomer Betancor Nuez
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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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📖📖Commissioned Book Review: Marina F. Bykova (ed.), At the Vanishing Point in History: Critical Perspectives on the Russia-Ukraine War📖📖 By Artsiom Sidarchuk Read the full review here:
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🔔Online First! 🔔Open Access and Free to Read!🔓 Government Support, Populist Attitudes and State Surveillance in Hungary By Paul Tap & Sergiu Gherghina
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Government Support, Populist Attitudes and State Surveillance in Hungary - Paul Tap, Sergiu Gherghina, 2026
State surveillance has been extensively investigated in various contexts in relation to the use of technology, external threats and people’s attitudes and chara...
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🎙️Author Interview Series🎙️ Episode 4! In this episode Mark Kaye speaks to Julen Bollain regarding his paper, co-authored with Daniel Raventos: 'Reclaiming basic income A republican socialist path to freedom'
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PSR Author Interview Julen Bollain 'Reclaiming basic income A republican socialist path to freedom'
Senior Research Associate Mark Anthony Kaye interviews Dr Julen Bollain regarding his paper, co-authored with Daniel Raventós: "Reclaiming basic income: A republican-socialist path to freedom"…
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📖We Need Book Reviewers!📖 We have a long list of fantastic books we are looking to have reviewed!
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Don't forget, if you're attending the
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Joint Sessions of Workshops, University of Innsbruck, 7 – 10 April 2026
European Consortium for Political Research
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Are you in Innsbruck this week for the
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Joint Sessions of Workshops, University of Innsbruck, 7 – 10 April 2026
European Consortium for Political Research
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#EATS26
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EATS Conference 2026
The 23rd EATS Conference is hosted by the University of Portsmouth (UoP) on 1-3 April 2026 in Portsmouth, UK. With an expertise in Area Studies, the UoP ranked as the top university amongst modern…
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🎆🎆Congratulations to our Best Research Article 2025 Award Winners!🎆🎆
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Are you in Oxford today for
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🎆🎆Congratulations to our Best Short Form Article 2025 Award Winner!🎆🎆 Joan Timoneda For their article: Revisiting the Personalism and Economic Performance Debate: Do All Personalist Dictators Produce Worse Economic Outcomes? Read the article here:
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Are you in Oxford this week for
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🎆We will be announcing the PSR best paper prize shortlist and winners for 2025 today as part of
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🤝🤝Next week our editorial team will be at the
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PSA26 Annual Conference - Political Studies Association
Join us in Oxford to discuss ‘Political Studies Futures’ “The best gathering for politics scholars in the UK and beyond” – PSA25 delegate Open to both members and non-members, the PSA annual…
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At PSR we are gearing up for the
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📖📖Commissioned Book Review:
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, Margaret Thatcher: The Prime Ministers Series📖📖 By Zoya Yasmine 'The book offers readers new information and a different perspective on a divisive political figure.'
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📖📖Commissioned Book Review: John T. Chalcraft, From Subordination to Revolution: A Gramscian Theory of Popular Mobilization📖📖 By Mohamed Amine Malmouze Full article here:
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📖📖Commissioned Book Review: Ayşe Çağlar, Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury and Ranabir Samaddar, Sites of Statelessness📖📖 By Robert Swetlic You can read the full review here:
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🎙️Author Interview Series🎙️ Episode 3! In this episode, Mark Kaye speaks with Giorgio Dolci regarding his article: Youth and Populism: A Scoping Review You can read the full interview here:
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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...
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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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📖Political Studies Review (PSR) provides a unique intellectual space for rigorous high-quality peer reviewed original research across political science and the study of politics📖 🧑🏫If you want to learn more about the journal, check out our webpage:
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🔔Online First! 🔔Open Access and Free to Read!🔓 Party Preferences as a Polarizing Factor During the COVID-19 crisis? The Evidence From Panel Survey By Tomas Cirhan, Ph.D. &
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🔭The Null Hypothesis🧪 Stereotype Crossroads: Investigating the Interplay of Gender and Religious Symbols in Shaping Political Gender Stereotypes in Flanders (Belgium), Turkey and the UK By
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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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🔔New Online First Artcle!🔔 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 &
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🔔New Online First Artcle!🔔 The Priority Question and Its Solutions: Debates About Political Normativity By Gang Wang
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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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📖Interested in reviewing a book for us?📖 We have a long list of fantastic books we are looking to have reviewed! To learn more about book reviews at PSR, check out our submissions page:
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🚨Online First Article!🚨 Open Seats, Incumbency, Campaign Spending and Electoral Success in Legislative Elections: Evidence from Chile’s Open-List Proportional Representation System By A.A Martínez &
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Have you seen the PSR's Best Original Research Article and Best Short-Form Article Prize Nominees yet?!? You can see a full list of the nominees, and read their articles, here:
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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! To learn more about book reviews at PSR, check out our submissions page:
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🚨Online First Article!🚨 Open Access & Free to Read! 'Militant Regimes: International Conflict During State of Emergencies' By Emine Ari Read here:
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🎆Congratulations to the PSR's Best Original Research Article and Best Short-Form Article Prize Nominees!!🎆 You can see a full list of the nominees, and read their articles, here:
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📖Commissioned Book Review📖 Manash Ghosh, Mujib’s Blunders: The Power and The Plot Behind His Killing By Dibyajyoti Dutta Read the full review here:
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📖Commissioned Book Review📖 Bryan Nelson, Democracy and Defiance: Rancière, Lefort, Abensour and the Antinomies of Politics By ilhan Bilici read the review here:
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📖Commissioned Book Review📖
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, Making India Work: The Development of Welfare in a Multi-Level Democracy By Akanksha Sanil You can read the full review here:
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🚨Online First Article!🚨 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 By João Moniz,
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