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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| 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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| Liberal and Deliberative Democracy in the Global South: Models, Functions, Practices | |||||||||
| Melisa Ross | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 21 August 2025 | |||||||||
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| A Complex Border: Intractability and the Physical Roots of Discursive Legitimations in Cyprus | |||||||||
| Hilmi Ulas | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 20 August 2025 | |||||||||
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| Trust in Political Leaders as Trustworthiness | |||||||||
| Susan Dieleman | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 20 August 2025 | |||||||||
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| Data Governance in the Geopolitics of Energy Transition: Comparing Regional Energy Cooperation in ASEAN and the EU | |||||||||
| Kaho Yu, Jinseok Sung and Yunheng Zhou | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 20 August 2025 | |||||||||
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| It’s Not Just Structural: Political Context and London’s Environmental Networks Twenty‐One Years Later | |||||||||
| Clare Saunders, Sam Nadel and Bob Walley | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 20 August 2025 | |||||||||
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| Offshore Embeddedness Beyond the Wall: Chinese Cloud Providers in Southeast Asia’s Data Governance Landscape | |||||||||
| Binyi Yang and Mingjiang Li | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 19 August 2025 | |||||||||
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| Nested, Pooled, or Exclusively National? Contested Sovereignty Models in Debates on the Future of Europe | |||||||||
| Magdalena Góra, Elodie Thevenin and Katarzyna Zielińska | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 19 August 2025 | |||||||||
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| Reporting EU Politics in News Venues: An Issue of Democratic Deficit? | |||||||||
| Muriel Cathérine Wenzel | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 13 August 2025 | |||||||||
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| Hijacking Democracy: Proposals on the Future of the European Union in Czechia, Hungary, and Slovakia (2015–2022) | |||||||||
| Max Steuer | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 13 August 2025 | |||||||||
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| How European Do Young Slovenians Feel? | |||||||||
| Meta Novak and Damjan Lajh | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 13 August 2025 | |||||||||
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| Exploring Covert Diplomacy in Peace Negotiations | |||||||||
| Sumeyye Kaya Uyar | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 7 August 2025 | |||||||||
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| How Trickle‐Down Democracy Won the Debate, and Why It Didn’t Have To | |||||||||
| Jan Pieter Beetz, Gilles Pittoors and Wouter Wolfs | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 7 August 2025 | |||||||||
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| Too Far to Reach? Explaining Low Croatian Participation in the European Citizens' Initiative | |||||||||
| Igor Vidačak, Mario Munta and Ana Matan | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 7 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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