Politics and Governance (ISSN: 2183-2463) is an international, peer-reviewed open access journal that publishes significant and cutting-edge research drawn from all areas of political science.
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| The China Gambit: Geoeconomics and the US’ Turn to Informal Data Governance Initiatives | |||||||||
| Arun Sukumar and Arindrajit Basu | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 24 September 2025 | |||||||||
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| Dynamics of Electoral Polarisation in Climate Policy Discourse: A Temporal Network Analysis | |||||||||
| Paul Drecker | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 24 September 2025 | |||||||||
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| The Wartime Justification Trajectory: A Dynamic Approach to Justifying Wars in the 21st Century | |||||||||
| Mihai Alexandrescu | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 17 September 2025 | |||||||||
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| Up and Down With… Polarisation? Intrinsic and Instrumental Polarisation Dynamics in US Climate Policy Debates | |||||||||
| Philip Leifeld and Dana R. Fisher | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 17 September 2025 | |||||||||
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| The Shortcomings of Just War Theories and the Legitimacy of Just Peace | |||||||||
| Oliver Hidalgo | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 10 September 2025 | |||||||||
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| A Geopolitical Economy Analysis of China and India’s Approaches to Transnational Data Governance | |||||||||
| Yujia He and Ka Zeng | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 10 September 2025 | |||||||||
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| Debating Europe: Politicization, Contestation, and Democratization | |||||||||
| Claudia Wiesner and Meta Novak | |||||||||
| Editorial | Open Access | Published: 9 September 2025 | |||||||||
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| The Complex Challenges of Modern Leadership: A Scholarly Overview of Ethics, Democracy, and Political Leadership | |||||||||
| Cristine de Clercy | |||||||||
| Editorial | Open Access | Published: 28 August 2025 | |||||||||
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| Collective Narcissism, Left‐ and Right‐Wing Authoritarianisms, and Justification of War | |||||||||
| Magdalena Anna Żemojtel-Piotrowska, Piotr Radkiewicz, Maksim Rudnev, Heather A. Kumove and Jarosław Piotrowski | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 27 August 2025 | |||||||||
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| Ruling the Data Flows: Data Cognition in Global Cross‐Border Data Flows Governance | |||||||||
| Jinhe Liu | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 27 August 2025 | |||||||||
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| Germany’s Energy and Climate Policy as an Ecology of Games | |||||||||
| Volker Schneider | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 27 August 2025 | |||||||||
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| Debating Employment in National TV News: Depoliticised Discourses and Overlooked EU Policies | |||||||||
| Damien Pennetreau | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 27 August 2025 | |||||||||
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| National EU Discourses in Germany and France and the Construction of European Identity | |||||||||
| Claudia Wiesner | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 27 August 2025 | |||||||||
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| Debating Democracy: Concepts, Histories, and Controversies | |||||||||
| Claudia Wiesner and Kari Palonen | |||||||||
| Editorial | Open Access | Published: 21 August 2025 | |||||||||
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| Alternatives to Liberal Democracy and the Role of AI: The Case of Elections | |||||||||
| Danica Fink-Hafner | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 21 August 2025 | |||||||||
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| Election Reform and Women’s Representation: Ranked Choice Voting in the U.S. | |||||||||
| Cynthia Richie Terrell, Courtney Lamendola and Maura Reilly | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 15 June 2021 | |||||||||
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| Regimes of the World (RoW): Opening New Avenues for the Comparative Study of Political Regimes | |||||||||
| Anna Lührmann, Marcus Tannenberg and Staffan I. Lindberg | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 19 March 2018 | |||||||||
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| Voter Disenchantment in the Aftermath of the 2005 EU Constitutional Referendum in France | |||||||||
| Stefan Sliwa Ruiz, Lukas Linsi and Pascal Jaupart | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 5 July 2023 | |||||||||
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| The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Transformative Change through the Sustainable Development Goals? | |||||||||
| Sabine Weiland, Thomas Hickmann, Markus Lederer, Jens Marquardt and Sandra Schwindenhammer | |||||||||
| Editorial | Open Access | Published: 26 February 2021 | |||||||||
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| Multilevel Trade Policy in the Joint‐Decision Trap? The Case of CETA | |||||||||
| Jörg Broschek | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 27 September 2023 | |||||||||
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| The Paris Agreement: Short-Term and Long-Term Effectiveness | |||||||||
| Guri Bang, Jon Hovi and Tora Skodvin | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 8 September 2016 | |||||||||
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| Paris: Beyond the Climate Dead End through Pledge and Review? | |||||||||
| Robert O. Keohane and Michael Oppenheimer | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 8 September 2016 | |||||||||
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| The Science–Policy Interface as a Discourse Network: Finland’s Climate Change Policy 2002–2015 | |||||||||
| Anna Kukkonen and Tuomas Ylä-Anttila | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 2 June 2020 | |||||||||
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| Globalization and Modern Slavery | |||||||||
| Todd Landman and Bernard W. Silverman | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 25 November 2019 | |||||||||
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| Local Participation or Elite Capture in Sheep’s Clothing? A Conundrum of Locally Led Development | |||||||||
| Aidan Craney | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 25 November 2020 | |||||||||
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| Regimes of the World (RoW): Opening New Avenues for the Comparative Study of Political Regimes | |||||||||
| Anna Lührmann, Marcus Tannenberg and Staffan I. Lindberg | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 19 March 2018 | |||||||||
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| Paris: Beyond the Climate Dead End through Pledge and Review? | |||||||||
| Robert O. Keohane and Michael Oppenheimer | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 8 September 2016 | |||||||||
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| The Paris Agreement: Short-Term and Long-Term Effectiveness | |||||||||
| Guri Bang, Jon Hovi and Tora Skodvin | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 8 September 2016 | |||||||||
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| Globalization and Modern Slavery | |||||||||
| Todd Landman and Bernard W. Silverman | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 25 November 2019 | |||||||||
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| Disentangling and Locating the “Global Right”: Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe | |||||||||
| David Paternotte and Roman Kuhar | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 14 September 2018 | |||||||||
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| South–South Cooperation and the Promise of Experimentalist Governance: The ASEAN Smart Cities Network | |||||||||
| Manuel Mejido Costoya | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 21 April 2022 | |||||||||
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| Gender Equality and De-Democratization Processes: The Case of Spain | |||||||||
| Alba Alonso and Emanuela Lombardo | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 14 September 2018 | |||||||||
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| The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Transformative Change through the Sustainable Development Goals? | |||||||||
| Sabine Weiland, Thomas Hickmann, Markus Lederer, Jens Marquardt and Sandra Schwindenhammer | |||||||||
| Editorial | Open Access | Published: 26 February 2021 | |||||||||
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| A Critical Review of Recent Literature on Populism | |||||||||
| John Abromeit | |||||||||
| Review | Open Access | Published: 29 December 2017 | |||||||||
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| The Impact of Brexit on EU Trade Policy | |||||||||
| Ferdi De Ville and Gabriel Siles-Brügge | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 16 September 2019 | |||||||||
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| The Legal Institutionalisation of Public Deliberation and the Embeddedness in the Democratic System: The Italian Case | |||||||||
| Stefania Ravazzi | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 24 September 2025 | |||||||||
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| Testing Staff Roles in the Danish Parliament | |||||||||
| Stijn van Voorst | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 24 September 2025 | |||||||||
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| The Parapolitical Path to Parliament: Former Political Support Staff as Parliamentary Members | |||||||||
| Anchrit Wille and Mark Bovens | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 24 September 2025 | |||||||||
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| Paradoxical Infrastructuring: Genealogies of Governance and “Art of Being Governed” in China’s Blockchain–AI Hypes | |||||||||
| Zichen Hu | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 24 September 2025 | |||||||||
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| Who’s Got MPs’ Back? Understanding the Drivers of Specialisation in the Offices of MPs | |||||||||
| Lena Stephan and Anna-Lena Högenauer | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 10 September 2025 | |||||||||
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| Staff Matters: The Effect of Political Group Staff on MP Activity in the Netherlands | |||||||||
| Simon Otjes and Gijs Jan Brandsma | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 10 September 2025 | |||||||||
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| Citizenwashing EU Tech Policy: EU Deliberative Mini‐Publics on Virtual Worlds and Artificial Intelligence | |||||||||
| Perle Petit and Alvaro Oleart | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 10 September 2025 | |||||||||
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| Institutionalizing Democratic Innovations in Poland: Mapping the Evolution of Citizens’ Assemblies Through Rules of Procedure | |||||||||
| Paulina Pospieszna and Marta Hoffmann | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 4 September 2025 | |||||||||
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| From Advisor to Interparliamentary Networker: A Typology of Parliamentary Officials in EU Affairs | |||||||||
| Anna-Lena Högenauer and Christine Neuhold | |||||||||
| Review | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 4 September 2025 | |||||||||
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| The Invisible Architects of Public Engagement: Understanding the Different Types of Roles Played by Parliamentary Staff | |||||||||
| Sofia Serra-Silva and Cristina Leston-Bandeira | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 7 August 2025 | |||||||||
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| Role Conceptualisations and the Purple Zone: Parliamentary Staff Through the Eyes of Former MPs | |||||||||
| Kanerva Kuokkanen and Marjukka Weide | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 27 August 2025 | |||||||||
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| Digital Policy as a Driver of Integration: Spillover Effects and European Commission Empowerment | |||||||||
| Sebastian Heidebrecht | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 26 August 2025 | |||||||||
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