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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| Followers First: Rethinking the Legitimacy of Political Leadership | |||||||||
| Femke van Esch and Rudolf Metz | |||||||||
| Editorial | Open Access | Published: 24 April 2025 | |||||||||
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| Transformational Party Leaders: Determinants of Leadership Style Assessment in Central and Eastern Europe | |||||||||
| Sergiu Gherghina | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 24 April 2025 | |||||||||
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| Legitimacy First: Marine Le Pen’s Visual De‐Demonisation Strategies on Instagram | |||||||||
| Donatella Bonansinga | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 24 April 2025 | |||||||||
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| Twenty‐First Century Autocrats and Their Followers: A Comparative Inquiry | |||||||||
| Ludger Helms | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 24 April 2025 | |||||||||
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| 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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| Forecasting Referendums: A Structural Model Predicting Adoption and Support in Irish Plebiscites 1968–2024 | |||||||||
| Stephen Quinlan, Michael S. Lewis-Beck and Matt Qvortrup | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 24 April 2025 | |||||||||
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| Social and Discursive Capital as Illiberal Enabler: A Tale of Two Far‐Right Fictions in France | |||||||||
| Périne Schir and Marlène Laruelle | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 23 April 2025 | |||||||||
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| Leader Effects in an Era of Negative Politics: Who Has a Negativity Bias? | |||||||||
| Loes Aaldering, Frederico Ferreira da Silva, Diego Garzia, Katjana Gattermann and Alessandro Nai | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 10 April 2025 | |||||||||
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| The European Parliament: On the Politics of Naming | |||||||||
| Kari Palonen | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 10 April 2025 | |||||||||
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| When Illiberals Govern: Educational and Cultural Policies in Hungary and Poland | |||||||||
| Péter Radó and Bálint Mikola | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 10 April 2025 | |||||||||
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| Virtues in Political Practice: Insights From an Interview Study With Swedish Parliamentarians | |||||||||
| Joel Martinsson | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 7 April 2025 | |||||||||
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| Unequal Participation Among Youth and Immigrants: An Overview | |||||||||
| Arndt Leininger and Sabrina J. Mayer | |||||||||
| Editorial | Open Access | Published: 3 April 2025 | |||||||||
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| The Influence of Age on Citizens’ Preferences for Age‐Related Descriptive Representation | |||||||||
| Kira Renée Kurz, L. Constantin Wurthmann and Martin Gross | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 3 April 2025 | |||||||||
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| Voices in the Margins: Exploring the Link Between Discrimination and Adolescents’ Political Involvement | |||||||||
| Philipp Kleer, Simone Abendschön, Gema García-Albacete, Lidia Núñez and David Sánchez | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 3 April 2025 | |||||||||
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| Opposition to Government and Back: How Illiberal Parties Shape Immigration Discourse and Party Competition | |||||||||
| Franziska Wagner, Dean Schafer and Mehmet Yavuz | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 2 April 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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| The Paris Climate Agreement and the Three Largest Emitters: China, the United States, and the European Union | |||||||||
| Miranda A. Schreurs | |||||||||
| Commentary | Open Access | Published: 8 September 2016 | |||||||||
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| A Critical Review of Recent Literature on Populism | |||||||||
| John Abromeit | |||||||||
| Review | Open Access | Published: 29 December 2017 | |||||||||
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| Constitutional Change and Referendums in Chile and Ireland: Faraway, So Close | |||||||||
| Felipe Paredes, Alberto Coddou Mc Manus and Jane Suiter | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 10 April 2025 | |||||||||
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| The Impact of Socio‐Political Cleavages on Constitutional Referendums: The Case of Chile 2022 | |||||||||
| Mauricio Morales and Teresa Pérez‐Cosgaya | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 20 March 2025 | |||||||||
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| Right to a Referendum, or Duty to Deliberate? Rethinking Normative Entitlements to Secession | |||||||||
| Ron Levy | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 26 December 2024 | |||||||||
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| The Emotional Dimension of the Catalan Independentist Referendum in 2017 | |||||||||
| José Manuel Rivera Otero, Erika Jaráiz Gulías and Paloma Castro Martínez | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 19 December 2024 | |||||||||
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| The Ball That Failed to Curve: The 2023 “Populist Polarizing” Referendum in Poland | |||||||||
| Magdalena Musiał-Karg and Fernando Casal Bértoa | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 18 December 2024 | |||||||||
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