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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| When Violence Becomes Visible: The Bundeswehr’s Struggle for Legitimacy in Afghanistan | |||||||||
| Timo Feilen | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 18 June 2025 | |||||||||
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| 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 | |||||||||
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| Democratic Leadership Revisited | |||||||||
| Michael K. MacKenzie | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 18 June 2025 | |||||||||
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| 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 | |||||||||
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| Polarization and Democracy in Central Europe | |||||||||
| Petra Guasti and Aleš Michal | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 18 June 2025 | |||||||||
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| 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 | |||||||||
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| 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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| Populist Rhetoric and Hate Speech: Analyzing Xenophobic Narratives in Vox’s 2023 Election Campaign | |||||||||
| Marta Pérez‐Escolar, Noemí Morejón‐Llamas and Purificación Alcaide‐Pulido | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 29 May 2025 | |||||||||
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| Legitimizing Illiberalism: The Construction of Civilizational Identity by the Justice and Development Party in Türkiye | |||||||||
| Melek Aylin Özoflu and Giray Gerim | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 29 May 2025 | |||||||||
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| “Strongmen” Don't Redistribute: Illiberal Leaders on the Right and Worsening Economic Inequality | |||||||||
| Dean Schafer, Seraphine F. Maerz, Carsten Q. Schneider and Alexandra Krasnokutskaya | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 29 May 2025 | |||||||||
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| Liberal Democracy From Oxymoron to Celebrated Concept: British and French Discourses of 1968–2001 | |||||||||
| Hugo Bonin | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 15 May 2025 | |||||||||
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| Mobilizing Rural Support: Targeted Government Spending and Democratic Backsliding in Hungary | |||||||||
| Krisztina Szabó and Ádám Reiff | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 14 May 2025 | |||||||||
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| Far‐Right Illiberalism in the European Parliament | |||||||||
| Larissa Böckmann, Sarah L. de Lange, Nathalie Brack and Matthijs Rooduijn | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 8 May 2025 | |||||||||
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| Cleavage Referendums: Ideological Decisions and Transformational Political Change | |||||||||
| Theresa Reidy | |||||||||
| Editorial | Open Access | Published: 7 May 2025 | |||||||||
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| Right to a Referendum, or Duty to Deliberate? Rethinking Normative Entitlements to Secession | |||||||||
| Ron Levy | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 7 May 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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