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This article is a conversation with political scientist William Howell about his podcast, Not Another Politics Podcast, and his research on the presidency and American politics. The podcast aims to discuss research on politics rather than provide commentary on current events. Howell and his co-hosts bring their different backgrounds and expertise to the conversations, and they select papers to discuss based on their importance and relevance to politics. Howell also discusses his recent book, which argues that populism thrives amidst government failure and suggests reforms to the presidency and Congress to address this. He also discusses the challenges and importance of presidential power and the role of academic research in improving government. Howell is currently working on a book about the rise of the strongman presidency. [Extracted from the article]

In this article, Nicholas Xenos, former editor of Polity, shares his experiences as editor and his efforts to broaden the journal's content and readership. He explores the concept of critical theory, tracing its origins to the Frankfurt School and its focus on analyzing the present and uncovering repressed possibilities. Xenos argues that critical theory is crucial for political science and political theory, as it provides a comprehensive understanding of social and political systems. He also critiques the terms "populism" and "illiberalism," suggesting that they often reflect a liberal democratic perspective and overlook the complexities of democratic action. Additionally, Xenos examines the concept of patriotism and its relationship to nationalism, questioning the idea of civic nationalism and exploring the differences between Western and Eastern forms of nationalism. He delves into the origins of patriotism in Roman and Greek literature and reflects on his personal experiences and family history in relation to patriotism. The author emphasizes the significance of understanding the historical context of political concepts and challenges the tendency to detach political discourse from its historical foundations. [Extracted from the article]

Barndt commends Allen most of all for how her example prompts us to consider and choose among many possible ways of pursuing both intellectual insights and the achievement of common goods, rather than presenting Allen's way as the model that all political theorists, much less all academics, should follow. Keywords: Danielle Allen; democracy; justice; civic education; human well-being EN Danielle Allen democracy justice civic education human well-being 836 843 8 10/03/23 20231001 NES 231001 When I entered graduate school at Harvard in 1975 as part of a strongly felt but ill-specified quest for personal and political meaning, I had no clear sense of what constituted "academic success.". [Extracted from the article]

Political science is more aware than ever that a variety of social identities are lining up with partisanship,[8] but I argue that this is not because people are becoming more political. As case counts rose in rural places, the relatively inadequate healthcare in many of our rural communities exacerbated the sense that people making decisions in the cities do not understand the challenges that rural people face, as well as the perception that all the infrastructure and wealth is in the nations' cities. Alyson Cole: Your award-winning book, I The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker i ,[2] introduced two key concepts - rural consciousness and the politics of resentment - to political scientists and the public that helped provide a frame for the 2016 presidential election. [Extracted from the article]

MacKinnon perceives that sex is a product of power and that feminism requires its own political theory and practice. 2 Catharine A. MacKinnon, I Butterfly Politics: Changing the World for Women i (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017); Catharine A. MacKinnon, I Are Women Human? 12 Robyn Marasco and Alyson Cole, "Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Catharine A. MacKinnon about Power, Politics, and Political Science", I Polity i 55 (2023): 231-39. [Extracted from the article]

Robyn Marasco and Alyson Cole: Your work over several decades has developed a distinctive concept and analysis of politics. The critique of rape law later became the legal claim for sexual harassment and my international work against rape as a gender crime, a crime of inequality. CAM: It is gratifying to see sexual harassment starting to fulfill its potential as a core recognition of the sexualized inequality of power. [Extracted from the article]

As co-editors, we have used the Editors' Note to pause and reflect on contemporary politics. We are delighted to continue the "Classics Revisited" series with a collection of essays on Francis Fukuyama's I The End of History and the Last Man i (1992), arguably the most influential book about politics published in the last half-century. We are witnesses to the renewal of politics on the Left and the Right, as well as the rapid rise of authoritarian parties and politicians in some of the most "advanced" (to employ Fukuyama's evolutionary terminology) countries in the world. [Extracted from the article]

Mary Stegmaier & Charles Tien: B You have written extensively about voters, elections, and the economy in countries far and wide. I PS: Political Science and Politics i 43 (2010): 69-76. 19 Natalie Jackson, Charles Tien, and Michael S. Lewis-Beck, "Pollster problems in the 2016 US presidential election: vote intention, vote prediction", I Italian Journal of Electoral Studies i 83 (2020): 17-28. 20 Michael S. Lewis-Beck and Charles Tien, "Voters as forecasters: a micromodel of election prediction", I International Journal of Forecasting i 15 (1999): 175-184. Professor Lewis-Beck has authored or co-authored over 315 articles and books, including I Economics and Elections, The American Voter Revisited, French Presidential Elections i , I Forecasting Elections i , I The Austrian Voter, Latin American Elections: Choice and Change, The Danish Voter i , and I Applied Regression i . [Extracted from the article]

This issue also features four research articles, which address important topics in American political behavior, black political thought, feminist theory, queer politics, and social movements. The cover of our July issue features an image of Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, his eyes masked by the numbers that he simply refused to see. We are thrilled to include a "Classics Revisited" symposium on Wendy Brown's I States of Injury i in this issue. [Extracted from the article]

The group has a studied critique of contemporary American government, and it has an overarching vision of what a reconstituted state might look like. I Building a New American State i turned back to the Progressive era for new insight into the prior transition, the transition between the nineteenth-century state (a "state of courts and parties") and the administrative state that would tighten its hold on American government over the ensuing decades. When we proposed that American government has become a "policy state", we meant something specific. [Extracted from the article]

6 Yann Allard-Tremblay, "The Two Row Wampum: Decolonizing and Indigenizing Democratic Autonomy", I Polity i 54 (2022): 225-49. 7 Ramon Lopez, "'My Ancient Faith': Abraham Lincoln's Response to the Jeffersonian Problem", I Polity i 54 (2022): 250-73. 8 Dünya Deniz Çakir, "Are You Still Reading Sayyid Qutb? Language makes politics and knowledge possible, but at least since Hobbes, the instability of words has also been understood as a challenge for political science. We want to thank Professor Enloe for making the time for this probing and fascinating discussion of her work and, more generally, for her ongoing efforts to define and develop a feminist orientation to the study of international politics. [Extracted from the article]

On the other hand, it is requiring serious analysis now to determine whether Legarde's and Georgian's back-to-back tenures have generated new attention among IMF economists to what feminist analysts long have shown to be the disproportionate economic hardships falling on women in IMF loan-receiving countries as a consequence of the IMF's standard austerity package of loan conditions. GEST was launched by feminist faculty at the University of Iceland and is designed for mid-level civil servants and NGO staff people from countries in the Global South. The politics of sexual harassment in each country have international dynamics (via the Olympics, transnational corporations, international treaties, transnational legal strategies, and transnational women's organizing) and, though each of these national politics is distinctive, some of the political gender dynamics are surprisingly similar. AC: B Your pioneering book, I Bananas, Beaches and Bases i , confronted International Relations (IR) scholars with one simple question - "Where are the women?". [Extracted from the article]

Notes 1 B Efrén Pérez b is Professor of Political Science and Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he directs the Race, Ethnicity, and Politics (REPS) Lab. RM & CT: B Much of your work deals with what is unspoken in politics but shapes political attitudes and behaviors. Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Efrén Pérez about Political Psychology and the Study of Race and Ethnic Politics One way that political psychology is useful is that political psychologists and social psychologists have a lot to say about hostility, about biases, about prejudice toward outgroups. [Extracted from the article]

As for the value of Marxist feminist theory, here's one way I think about its contribution to the present conjuncture: Marxism may continue to be optional for feminist theorists, but Marxist theorists can no longer remain ignorant of feminist theory. AC & RM: B Beyond having long admired and relied on your scholarship, one of the reasons we were eager to interview you for this feature of I Polity i is because of your writing about work. b KW: I will say that I'm not surprised - I doubt many feminists were - about how the pandemic has created so much more work for women, who are being forced to add to their other two or three shifts even more work, including, for one important example, the highly skilled work of teaching their children. [Extracted from the article]

DC: B You have said that feminism and Black feminism aren't just sets of ideas, but ways of seeing the world. DC: B You are a prolific writer but also a very deliberate writer and creative thinker. 3 Imani Perry, I South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon Line to Understand the Soul of a Nation i (New York, NY: Ecco Press, forthcoming 2021). [Extracted from the article]

Up until the 1980s immigration-related subjects were largely ignored by comparative political scientists. It was only when they were politicized during the 1990s that political science scholarship on these subjects proliferated. The essays in this symposium expand upon the progress comparativists have made in comprehending and explaining the phenomena of mass immigration and immigrant settlement. Specifically, they explore several recent currents within their respective research streams, including issue salience, radical Right political parties, the domestic politics of immigration policy making, and national immigration regimes. All are intellectually indebted to the scholarship of Gary P. Freeman and Martin A. Schain to whom we dedicate this symposium. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Democracy is a notoriously ambiguous concept. Political scientists typically see this ambiguity as a problem that restricts measurement and causal explanation, especially for the comparative study of democratization. Increasingly ambitious data collection efforts and sophisticated methodological approaches attempt to resolve this problem—nowhere more so than in the recent, award-winning, and highly prominent Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) dataset. By contrast, ambiguity and contestation over what democracy actually means is key both to normative theorizing and to the capacity to re-examine and reimagine democratic practice during moments of crisis. Rather than attempting to pin down and measure democratic quality, we highlight instead the value of ambiguity to normative democratic theory and interpretive political science. We offer four reflections on V-Dem based on examples from the literature on deliberative democracy, which is the discipline's most prominent attempt to reinvent and reinvigorate democratic practice amid crisis and disaffection. Our aim is not to reignite the paradigm wars or fundamentally question the validity of projects like V-Dem, but rather to illustrate how a more plural approach might augment their theoretical and empirical contribution. We conclude by offering concrete illustrations of what this might look like in practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AC: B The range of your scholarship, and the diversity of your interlocutors and your texts, is striking: Arendt, Nietzsche, Machiavelli, Derrida, Rosenzweig, Winnicott, Melville, and Sophocles, to name a few, as well as I The Wizard of Oz i , I Shane i , and I Strictly Ballroom i , the films of Lars von Trier, and the Biblical story of Ruth. This is especially evident in I Democracy and the Foreigner i [4] and I Emergency Politics i .[5] Might you talk a bit about how you come to these new questions, and whether you think this sort of questioning is a distinctive role political theory brings to political science and to politics more generally? The virus was an occasion to witness the good that government can do, but unfortunately Trump, Kushner, and others saw instead opportunities for retribution against states and cities with Democratic governors and mayors. Forthcoming this spring are two books: I A Feminist Theory of Refusal i , (Harvard 2021) and a collection of her public writing, I Shellshocked: Feminist Criticism After Trump i (Fordham 2021). B Alyson Cole b is Professor of Political Science, Womens & Gender Studies, and American Studies at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. [Extracted from the article]

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue on topics including political scientists, immigration and political change.

The language scholars use to describe research findings has potentially enormous implications for how a science of politics develops. Consider the history of marked and unmarked terms in the American Political Science Review. Modifiers that mark reported data as spatially or temporally 'different' (versus linguistically leaving the data unmarked and thus implying that the information is universal and 'normal') reflect predominant power relations. Marking, furthermore, can contribute to future power relations. Finally, knowledge claims that are made without acute attention to the marking of data are likely to be faulty. Because the implications for a science of politics are neither politically nor analytically innocent, political scientists should reveal (rather than conceal) and foreground (rather than background) the geographic and temporal origins of their data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers a commentary on the ideas raised by Patchen Markell in his book "Bound by Recognition." The author points out that Markell's book provides a commanding critique of the ontological basis on which much of the debate has rested. He notes that Markell offers a compelling critique of the discourse of recognition in its initial formulation.

Focuses on the influences in the works of political scientist Friedrich Nietzsche. Exploration of Nietzsche's admiration for Thucydides; Nietzsche's reliance upon the artistry of the history for relief from Platonism; Consideration of three key terms in Nietzsche's praise of Thucydides.

Focuses on political scientist Alexis de Tocqueville's works on race and slavery. Analysis of the coexistence of liberal democracy and racism; Examination of Tocqueville's fascination with bourgeois democracy; Tocqueville's claim of the extension of equality.

Examines the relationship between scientific political philosopher David Hume's skepticism and political thought. Hume's understanding of political skepticism; Belief in a life devoted to skeptical philosophy; Hume's political maxims; Efforts to quell party strife; Fondness for liberal commercial republics.

Comments on the role of political scientists in the profession and activities of political actors in the United States. Generation of knowledge for assisting politicians and policymakers; Development of historical institutionalist analyses to provide contexts for choice; Benefits of historical analyses to politicians, policymakers and voters.

Relates an experience of a political scientist involved in formulating a foreign policy in the United States. Participation in the formulation of policies regarding the 1991 Middle East conflict; Discussion on the factors influencing foreign policy making; Suggestion for academics involved in delivering expert opinion or information to policymakers.

Characterizes external public intellectuals in the United States. Relevance and use of political science in society; Analogy between the character of a lion and a political actor; Need for political leaders to develop and sustain intelligence on adequate levels; Description of dissenters; Consideration on political scientists as prophets.

The article comments on a forum about the ideas raised by Patchen Markell in his book "Bound by Recognition." The panel was organized by Antonio Y. Vazquez-Arroyo for the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association. It is noted that Markell's ideas marked a significant and productive shift in the literature on the politics of recognition.