Open Access Journal

ISSN: 2183-2463

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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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Politicians, Electoral Integrity, and Electoral Management Bodies: A Cross‐National Study on Satisfaction With Democracy
Valere Gaspard
Article | Open Access | Published: 10 July 2025
Transparency Against Democracy: The Sweden Democrats, Radical‐Right Populism, and Political Trust
Stéphane Paquin
Article | Open Access | Published: 10 July 2025
Politicisation and Democracy: The Consequences of Contingency
Claudia Wiesner
Article | Open Access | Published: 10 July 2025
Illiberal Politics in Europe: Ideology, Policies, and Impact
Zsolt Enyedi, Petra Guasti, Dean Schafer and Bálint Mikola
Editorial | Open Access | Published: 8 July 2025
Alternatives to Liberal Democracies and Their Consolidation in Central and Eastern Europe
Radoslaw Markowski and Michał Kotnarowski
Article | Open Access | Published: 8 July 2025
Confessional Illiberalism in Europe
Lotem Halevy and Lenka Buštíková
Article | Open Access | Published: 8 July 2025
Illiberal Social Policy in Europe: When Policy Implementation Meets Welfare Ideas
Dorottya Szikra and Lauritz Autischer
Article | Open Access | Published: 8 July 2025
How Terror Attacks Shape Political Agendas on Multiculturalism in France
Elena Cossu and Caterina Froio
Article | Open Access | Published: 8 July 2025
When Violence Becomes Visible: The Bundeswehr’s Struggle for Legitimacy in Afghanistan
Timo Feilen
Article | Open Access | Published: 18 June 2025
Security and Liberty in Post‐9/11 US Counterterrorism: A Comparative Analysis of Presidential Rhetoric
Teodora Tea Ristevska and Iztok Prezelj
Article | Open Access | Published: 18 June 2025
Democratic Leadership Revisited
Michael K. MacKenzie
Article | Open Access | Published: 18 June 2025
Undermining Liberal Democracy? Cross‐Level Opposition in Madrid Regional President's Speeches During the Pandemic Crisis
Taru Haapala and Andreu Teruel
Article | Open Access | Published: 18 June 2025
Polarization and Democracy in Central Europe
Petra Guasti and Aleš Michal
Article | Open Access | Published: 18 June 2025
Rebuilding Countries in a War and Post‐War Context: Reconstruction Models and Their Impacts
Jehad Yousif Alayasa and Juraj Nemec
Article | Open Access | Published: 5 June 2025
Weaponizing Culture: The Role of Illiberal Cultural Policy in Slovenia’s Democratic Backsliding
Kristina Čufar and Hana Hawlina
Article | Open Access | Published: 5 June 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
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
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
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
Multilevel Trade Policy in the Joint‐Decision Trap? The Case of CETA
Jörg Broschek
Article | Open Access | Published: 27 September 2023
The Paris Agreement: Short-Term and Long-Term Effectiveness
Guri Bang, Jon Hovi and Tora Skodvin
Article | Open Access | Published: 8 September 2016
Paris: Beyond the Climate Dead End through Pledge and Review?
Robert O. Keohane and Michael Oppenheimer
Article | Open Access | Published: 8 September 2016
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
Globalization and Modern Slavery
Todd Landman and Bernard W. Silverman
Article | Open Access | Published: 25 November 2019
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
Paris: Beyond the Climate Dead End through Pledge and Review?
Robert O. Keohane and Michael Oppenheimer
Article | Open Access | Published: 8 September 2016
The Paris Agreement: Short-Term and Long-Term Effectiveness
Guri Bang, Jon Hovi and Tora Skodvin
Article | Open Access | Published: 8 September 2016
Globalization and Modern Slavery
Todd Landman and Bernard W. Silverman
Article | Open Access | Published: 25 November 2019
Gender Equality and De-Democratization Processes: The Case of Spain
Alba Alonso and Emanuela Lombardo
Article | Open Access | Published: 14 September 2018
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
Disentangling and Locating the “Global Right”: Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe
David Paternotte and Roman Kuhar
Article | Open Access | Published: 14 September 2018
South–South Cooperation and the Promise of Experimentalist Governance: The ASEAN Smart Cities Network
Manuel Mejido Costoya
Article | Open Access | Published: 21 April 2022
A Critical Review of Recent Literature on Populism
John Abromeit
Review | Open Access | Published: 29 December 2017
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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