Open Access Journal

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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The Decline of Economic and Political Freedom After Covid‐19: A New Authoritarian Dawn?
Christopher A. Hartwell
Editorial | Open Access | Published: 2 December 2024
Navigating Digital Privacy and Surveillance: Post‐Covid Regulatory and Theoretical Insights
Karolina Małagocka
Article | Open Access | Published: 2 December 2024
Internet Control and Disinformation Across Regime Types During and After the Covid‐19 Crisis
Marianne Kneuer, Wolf J. Schünemann and Giulia Bahms
Article | Open Access | Published: 18 November 2024
Challenging Democracy: Understanding How the Ideas of Populists and Disenchanted Citizens Align
Reinhard Heinisch and Oscar Mazzoleni
Editorial | Open Access | Published: 4 November 2024
Limited Congruence: Citizens’ Attitudes and Party Rhetoric About Referendums and Deliberative Practices
Sergiu Gherghina, Brigitte Geissel and Fabian Henger
Article | Open Access | Published: 4 November 2024
Affective Polarization Among Radical‐Right Supporters: Dislike Differentiation and Democratic Support
Jochem Vanagt, Katrin Praprotnik, Luana Russo and Markus Wagner
Article | Open Access | Published: 4 November 2024
Trust the People? Populism, Trust, and Support for Direct Democracy
Nina Wiesehomeier and Saskia P. Ruth-Lovell
Article | Open Access | Published: 28 October 2024
Central Bank Digital Currencies and International Crises: Toward an Authoritarian International Monetary Order?
Thomas Marmefelt
Article | Open Access | Published: 17 October 2024
Different Perspectives on Democracy as an Explanation for the “Populist Radical Right Gender Gap”?
Viktoria Jansesberger and Susanne Rhein
Article | Open Access | Published: 17 October 2024
Do Affective Polarization and Populism Affect the Support for Holding Referendums?
Marco Fölsch
Article | Open Access | Published: 17 October 2024
Democracy Amid Pandemic: A Survey Experiment on How Covid‐19 Affectedness Influences Support for Anti‐Liberal Policies
Annika Werner and Reinhard Heinisch
Article | Open Access | Published: 17 October 2024
Caretaker Conventions in Crisis Times: Dutch Government‐Opposition Dynamics After the Fall of the Government
Stefanie Beyens and Lars Brummel
Article | Open Access | Published: 8 October 2024
Party Competition Over Democracy: Democracy as Electoral Issue in Germany
Lea Kaftan
Article | Open Access | Published: 8 October 2024
Emotion Narratives on the Political Culture of Radical Right Populist Parties in Portugal and Italy
Cristiano Gianolla, Lisete Mónico and Manuel João Cruz
Article | Open Access | Published: 3 October 2024
Rethinking the “Conspiracy Crisis”: Use and Misuse of “Conspiracy Theory” Labels After Covid‐19
Matteo Perini and Hein T. van Schie
Article | Open Access | Published: 30 September 2024
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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
Multilevel Trade Policy in the Joint‐Decision Trap? The Case of CETA
Jörg Broschek
Article | Open Access | Published: 27 September 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
The Paris Agreement: Short-Term and Long-Term Effectiveness
Guri Bang, Jon Hovi and Tora Skodvin
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
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 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
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
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 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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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
Rational Illusions: Everyday Theories of International Status and the Domestic Politics of Boer War
Paul David Beaumont
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 19 December 2024
Revisiting ECB’s Technocratic Legitimacy: No Longer Fit‐for‐Purpose?
Dimitrios Argyroulis and Nikolas Vagdoutis
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 18 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
Monetary‐Fiscal Interactions and the Problem of Outdated Commitments: Eurozone Crisis Versus Covid‐19
Sebastian Diessner and Philipp Genschel
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
Policy‐Maker of Last Resort? Drivers of Discretion at the European Central Bank
Shawn Donnelly
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 13 December 2024
Norm Compliance and International Status: National Human Rights Institutions in Domestic and Global Politics
Luka Glušac
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 13 December 2024
Status Threat, Campaign Rhetoric, and US Foreign Policy
Jonathan Schulman
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 4 December 2024
The European Central Bank: From a Price Stability Paradigm to a Multidimensional Stability Paradigm
Lucia Quaglia and Amy Verdun
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 28 November 2024
Twenty‐First Century Autocrats and Their Followers: A Comparative Inquiry
Ludger Helms
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 26 November 2024
After the Storm: Comparing the Determinants of Young People’s Protest Behaviour Across South European Contexts
Martín Portos
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 26 November 2024
The End Justifies the Means? The Impact of the ECB’s Unconventional Monetary Policy on Citizens’ Trust
Moritz Rehm and Martin Ulrich
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 20 November 2024
Green Monetary Policy Measures and Central Bank Mandates: A Comparative Political Economy Analysis
Susana Matos Rosa
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 20 November 2024
Nepal’s Status‐Seeking Endeavors: Between Normative Convergence and Geopolitical Interests
Bibek Chand
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 18 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
No Longer Neutral: The ECB’s Geopoliticization of the International Role of the Euro
Lukas Spielberger
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 6 November 2024
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