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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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Editorial: Novel Perspectives on Status in Global Politics
Ali Bilgic, Miriam Prys‐Hansen and Clemens Hoffmann
Editorial | Open Access | Published: 10 March 2025
Status Threat, Campaign Rhetoric, and US Foreign Policy
Jonathan Schulman
Article | Open Access | Published: 10 March 2025
Norm Compliance and International Status: National Human Rights Institutions in Domestic and Global Politics
Luka Glušac
Article | Open Access | Published: 10 March 2025
Nepal’s Status‐Seeking Endeavors: Between Normative Convergence and Geopolitical Interests
Bibek Chand
Article | Open Access | Published: 10 March 2025
Status‐Seeking Through Disaster Relief: India and China’s Response to Turkey–Syria Earthquakes
Dhanasree Jayaram, Lina Gong and Manaswini Dahagam Srivatsav
Article | Open Access | Published: 10 March 2025
“Bounded States”: How (Extreme) Risk Constrains the Aspiration for Status
Kennedy Mbeva and Reuben Makomere
Article | Open Access | Published: 10 March 2025
China as a “Green Soft Power” and the Belt and Road Initiative: Evidence From Pakistan
Agnieszka Nitza-Makowska
Article | Open Access | Published: 10 March 2025
Rational Illusions: Everyday Theories of International Status and the Domestic Politics of Boer War
Paul David Beaumont
Article | Open Access | Published: 10 March 2025
Learning to Lead at the WHO: Thailand’s Global Health Diplomacy at the World Health Assembly
Joseph Harris and Suriwan Thaiprayoon
Article | Open Access | Published: 10 March 2025
Addressing Migrant Inequality in Youth Political Engagement: The Role of Parental Influences
Simona Guglielmi and Nicola Maggini
Article | Open Access | Published: 27 February 2025
Depoliticizing Transnational Cleavage‐Related Issues Through Social Media Advertising: The 2022 Danish Defense Referendum Campaign
Toine Paulissen, Lien Jansen and Steven Van Hecke
Article | Open Access | Published: 26 February 2025
Character, Gender, and Populism: How Female Populist Voters Judge the Character of Political Leaders
Cristine de Clercy, Gerard Seijts and Ana Ruiz Pardo
Article | Open Access | Published: 20 February 2025
Uneven Pathways to Local Power: The Political Incorporation of Immigrants’ Descendants
Robin Stünzi, Rosita Fibbi and Gianni D'Amato
Article | Open Access | Published: 12 February 2025
Understanding the Electoral Participation Gap: A Study of Racialized Minorities in Canada
Baowen Liang and Allison Harell
Article | Open Access | Published: 12 February 2025
Fonder From Afar: Distance, Leadership, and the Legitimacy of the EU
Femke van Esch and Sebastiaan Steenman
Article | Open Access | Published: 5 February 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
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
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
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
Globalization and Modern Slavery
Todd Landman and Bernard W. Silverman
Article | Open Access | Published: 25 November 2019
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
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
Gender Equality and De-Democratization Processes: The Case of Spain
Alba Alonso and Emanuela Lombardo
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
Disentangling and Locating the “Global Right”: Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe
David Paternotte and Roman Kuhar
Article | Open Access | Published: 14 September 2018
The Impact of Brexit on EU Trade Policy
Ferdi De Ville and Gabriel Siles-Brügge
Article | Open Access | Published: 16 September 2019
A Critical Review of Recent Literature on Populism
John Abromeit
Review | Open Access | Published: 29 December 2017
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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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 | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 11 February 2025
Transformational Party Leaders: Determinants of Leadership Style Assessment in Central and Eastern Europe
Sergiu Gherghina
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 2 January 2025
The Influence of Age on Citizens’ Preferences for Age‐Related Descriptive Representation
Kira Renée Kurz, L. Constantin Wurthmann and Martin Gross
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 31 December 2024
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
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
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
Legitimacy First: Marine Le Pen’s Visual De‐Demonisation Strategies on Instagram
Donatella Bonansinga
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 18 December 2024
Twenty‐First Century Autocrats and Their Followers: A Comparative Inquiry
Ludger Helms
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 26 November 2024
Making Russia Great Again? Vladimir Putin’s Changing Sources of Legitimacy 2000–2024
Tina Burrett
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 7 November 2024
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