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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| Understanding the Role of Political Staff and Parliamentary Administrations | |||||||||
| Gijs Jan Brandsma and Anna-Lena Högenauer | |||||||||
| Editorial | Open Access | Published: 7 January 2026 | |||||||||
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| Testing Staff Roles in the Danish Parliament | |||||||||
| Stijn van Voorst | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 7 January 2026 | |||||||||
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| Working Behind the Scenes: Roles and Functions of French and German Parliamentary Staff | |||||||||
| Henriette Heimbach | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 7 January 2026 | |||||||||
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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 | Published: 7 January 2026 | |||||||||
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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 | Published: 7 January 2026 | |||||||||
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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 | Published: 7 January 2026 | |||||||||
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| Solo, Group, or Team Effort? Work Dynamics of Parliamentary Offices for Parliamentarians' Political Communications | |||||||||
| Sebastian Ludwicki-Ziegler | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 7 January 2026 | |||||||||
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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 | Published: 7 January 2026 | |||||||||
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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 | Published: 7 January 2026 | |||||||||
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| Echoes and Barriers: Staff as Key Actors in the Representative Process | |||||||||
| Meagan Cloutier | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 7 January 2026 | |||||||||
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| The Parapolitical Path to Parliament: Former Political Support Staff as Parliamentary Members | |||||||||
| Anchrit Wille and Mark Bovens | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 7 January 2026 | |||||||||
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| The Politics of Environmental Networks | |||||||||
| Monica Di Gregorio, Petr Ocelík, Carlos Bravo-Laguna and Eva Fernández G. | |||||||||
| Editorial | Open Access | Published: 18 December 2025 | |||||||||
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| Litigating Across Borders: Subnational Actors and Supranational Governance in the Turów Dispute | |||||||||
| Lukas Lehotsky and Filip Cernoch | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 18 December 2025 | |||||||||
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| Relational Processes and Networks in Environmental Politics | |||||||||
| Eva Fernández G., Monica Di Gregorio, Carlos Bravo‐Laguna and Petr Ocelík | |||||||||
| Commentary | Open Access | Published: 18 December 2025 | |||||||||
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| Correction to "Reconceptualizing Technological Leadership: A Relational and Dynamic Framework" | |||||||||
| Yuanyuan Fang and Shenghao Zhang | |||||||||
| Correction | Open Access | Published: 15 December 2025 | |||||||||
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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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| 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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| 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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| Globalization and Modern Slavery | |||||||||
| Todd Landman and Bernard W. Silverman | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 25 November 2019 | |||||||||
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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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| 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 | |||||||||
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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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| 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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| 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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| A Critical Review of Recent Literature on Populism | |||||||||
| John Abromeit | |||||||||
| Review | Open Access | Published: 29 December 2017 | |||||||||
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| Democracy and Human Rights: Concepts, Measures, and Relationships | |||||||||
| Todd Landman | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 19 March 2018 | |||||||||
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| 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 | |||||||||
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| “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 | |||||||||
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| 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 | |||||||||
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| 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 | |||||||||
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| 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 | |||||||||
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| Political Ideology, Policy Attitudes, and Public Support for European Integration | |||||||||
| Dimiter Toshkov | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 26 November 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 | |||||||||
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| 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 | |||||||||
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| 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 | |||||||||
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| 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 | |||||||||
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| In the Pursuit of Democracy: Support for Referendums in Moldova | |||||||||
| Sergiu Gherghina | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 12 November 2025 | |||||||||
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| 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 | |||||||||
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| 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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| 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 | |||||||||
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| Creativity or Institutionalization? Beyond the Dualism in Democratic Innovation | |||||||||
| Paola Pierri | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 22 October 2025 | |||||||||
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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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| 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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