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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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Mapping Euroscepticism Across Occupational Classes: Economic and Cultural Capital in Comparative Perspective
Valentina Petrović
Article | Open Access | Published: 14 January 2026
Citizens’ Trust in the European Union During Crisis and Conflicts Across 10 Countries
Norbert Kersting, Lukas Schütte, Michele Scotto di Vettimo, Sven Lange, Jack Thompson, Francesco Ruggeri, Roberta di Stefano, Roan Buma, Vladimir Cristea, Lorenza Antonucci, André Krouwel, Carlo D’Ippoliti and Alberto López Ortega
Article | Open Access | Published: 14 January 2026
Anti‐Poverty Legislation for Particularly Vulnerable Groups: The Example of Indigenous People and Minorities
Markus Kaltenborn and Jasmin Dogu
Short Note | Open Access | Published: 14 January 2026
Contested Visions for Social Protection in Kenya: The Older Persons Cash Transfer and the Social Registry
Kate O'Donnell
Article | Open Access | Published: 14 January 2026
Pro‐Poor Populism or Financialized Governance? The Politics of PMJDY and PMMY in India
Pınar Kahya
Article | Open Access | Published: 14 January 2026
Isomorphic Spillover and Its Limits: The Institutionally Constrained Defence Industrial Policy of the European Union
Salih Işık Bora
Article | Open Access | Published: 14 January 2026
How Many People Use Voting Advice Applications? Survey Evidence From 15 Democracies Worldwide
Diego Garzia and Frederico Ferreira da Silva
Short Note | Open Access | Published: 14 January 2026
Exploring Their Options? Tracking How Voters Actually Use Voting Advice Applications
Andreas Videbæk Jensen, Veikko Isotalo and Mathias Wessel Tromborg
Article | Open Access | Published: 14 January 2026
The Interacting Politics of Agricultural Input Subsidies and Cash Transfers in Malawi and Zambia
Guido Maschhaupt
Article | Open Access | Published: 8 January 2026
Enhancing Voting Advice Applications: Politicians’ Perspectives on Additional Contextual Information and AI Integration
Elke van Veggel, Naomi Kamoen and Christine Liebrecht
Article | Open Access | Published: 8 January 2026
Are Single‐Party Voting Advice Applications Useful? Comparing Voter Preferences in the BSW‐O‐Mat With a Probability Sample
Jan Philipp Thomeczek
Article | Open Access | Published: 8 January 2026
Understanding the Role of Political Staff and Parliamentary Administrations
Gijs Jan Brandsma and Anna-Lena Högenauer
Editorial | Open Access | Published: 7 January 2026
Testing Staff Roles in the Danish Parliament
Stijn van Voorst
Article | Open Access | Published: 7 January 2026
Working Behind the Scenes: Roles and Functions of French and German Parliamentary Staff
Henriette Heimbach
Article | Open Access | Published: 7 January 2026
Who’s Got MPs’ Back? Understanding the Drivers of Specialisation in the Offices of MPs
Lena Stephan and Anna-Lena Högenauer
Article | Open Access | Published: 7 January 2026
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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
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
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
Globalization and Modern Slavery
Todd Landman and Bernard W. Silverman
Article | Open Access | Published: 25 November 2019
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
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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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
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
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
Gender Equality and De-Democratization Processes: The Case of Spain
Alba Alonso and Emanuela Lombardo
Article | Open Access | Published: 14 September 2018
A Critical Review of Recent Literature on Populism
John Abromeit
Review | Open Access | Published: 29 December 2017
Making Russia Great Again? Vladimir Putin’s Changing Sources of Legitimacy 2000–2024
Tina Burrett
Article | Open Access | Published: 24 April 2025
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Does Federalism Facilitate Permanent Minipublics?
Francesco Veri and Nenad Stojanović
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 26 November 2025
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
From Efficiency to Deliberation: Rethinking AI’s Role in Institutionalizing Democratic Innovations
Arild Ohren, Elizabeth Calderón Lüning, Čedomir Markov and Max Stearns
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 5 November 2025
“More” or “Better” Institutionalization? Lessons From Latin American Institutions of Citizen Participation
Benjamin Goldfrank, Melisa Ross and Yanina Welp
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 17 December 2025
A Chapter on Institutionalization: The Use and Misuse of Institutions of Citizen Participation in Hungary
Eszter Kovács Szitkay, Dániel Oross and Alexandra Kiss
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 26 November 2025
Decolonising Deliberation: Citizens’ Assemblies as a Claimed Space for Forging Bottom‐Up Democracy in Lebanon and Tunisia
Mariam Daher, Sonia Chabane, Muzna Al-Masri and Ala'a Shehabi
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 26 November 2025
Deliberative Policy (Sub)System: Institutionalising Deliberative Mini‐Publics Within the Policy Process
Nemanja Anđelković and Tara Tepavac
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 12 November 2025
Creativity or Institutionalization? Beyond the Dualism in Democratic Innovation
Paola Pierri
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 22 October 2025
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
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
Institutionalization of Participatory Democratic Innovations: Understanding the Roles of Established and Emerging Actors
Gazela Pudar Drasko and Irena Fiket
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 6 January 2026
Deconstructing Polish Euro‐Enthusiasm: The Illusory Incongruence of Party Narratives With Public Opinion
Maria Wincławska and Anna Pacześniak
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 10 December 2025
Large‐Scale Crises and Variation in Social Democratic Europeanism: The Italian Democratic Party
Andrea Capati and Federico Trastulli
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 10 December 2025
Political Ideology, Policy Attitudes, and Public Support for European Integration
Dimiter Toshkov
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 26 November 2025
Picking Sectors: IPCEIs and Europe’s Emerging State Capacity for Strategic Identification
Timo Seidl and Tobias Wuttke
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 19 November 2025
Rhetorical Consensus About the EU? Comparing Established and New Parties in Europe
Bettina Mitru and Paul Tap
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 12 November 2025
In the Pursuit of Democracy: Support for Referendums in Moldova
Sergiu Gherghina
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 12 November 2025
Still Out of Touch? Parties and Their Voters on the EU Dimension
Mikko Mattila and Tapio Raunio
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 5 November 2025
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