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Peer-reviewed journal of the American Political Science Association, cultivating a political science public sphere.
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Perspectives on Politics @poppublicsphere.bsky.social · Sep 7
¡¡VOLUME 23, ISSUE 3 IS NOW OUT!!

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Featuring work by: @natekelly.bsky.social, @janamorgan.bsky.social, @annkristinkolln.bsky.social, @felixlehmann.bsky.social, @feligsantos.bsky.social, @abenewman.bsky.social & ....,
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Antitrust after Neoliberalism

By Gerald Berk (@liberalartsosu.bsky.social)

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November 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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My antitrust attitudes paper with Nick Short and Jacob Brown is out now @poppublicsphere.bsky.social

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We find:
- voters are skeptical about M&A
- current law marginalizes important public concerns (layoffs, bailout risk, lobbying)
- expert/public cleavage > partisan diffs
What Is Ideological Capture and How Do We Measure It? Using Antitrust Reform to Understand Expert-Public Cleavages Nicholas Short, Sophie Hill and Jacob Brown Scholarship on regulatory capture—when businesses lobby regulators to act contrary to the public interest—has thrived since the 1970s. Yet it ignores an important dimension of influence, what we call ideological capture. This occurs when experts design regulatory frameworks that marginalize important public values and produce favorable outcomes for special interests even in the absence of lobbying. We present a theoretical and empirical framework for understanding ideological capture, rooted in expert-public cleavages, and measure its presence in an important policy domain (antitrust review of business mergers) with an original survey of the public and of antitrust lawyers. Our results suggest that the main framework for evaluating anticompetitive conduct, the consumer welfare standard, marginalizes important public concerns but is deeply popular among antitrust lawyers. With prior vork showing the standard arose not from conventional processes but from judicial and bureaucratic activism, we conclude that antitrust policy evidences ideological capture. Keywords: political economy, bureaucracy, regulatory capture, economic ideas, public opinion Figure 4 The Public Is Skeptical that Large Mergers Deliver Some Economic Benefits Bar charts Note: A plurality of the public disagrees that large mergers lower prices (their main purported benefit) or make it easier to start a new business but agrees that large mergers increase innovation. Respondents were less certain about the effect of large mergers on product quality. Figure 5 The Public Agrees that Large Mergers Have Significant Social Risks Note: A majority of the public agree that large mergers weaken the ties between companies and local communities, create companies that are too big to fail, have too much power to infringe on individual liberties, and have too much influence in politics. Figure 3 Expertise Outweighs Partisanship in Shaping Support for Replacing the CWS
November 18, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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What Is #Ideological #Capture and How Do We Measure It? Using #Antitrust #Reform to Understand #Expert–#Public #Cleavages

By Nicholas Short, @sophieehill.bsky.social & Jacob Brown

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November 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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How Does an #Ideology Spread? #Archival #Evidence from an #Extreme #Case

By Johannes Gerschewski - @wzb.bsky.social

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November 17, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Does Ethnopolitical Exclusion Cause Civil War Onset via Grievances? Evidence from 15 Case Studies - https://cup.org/4ozgHkU

- @lleipziger.bsky.social, Lasse Lykke Rørbæk & @skaaning.bsky.social

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November 14, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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In @aunz.theconversation.com today, @jholloway.bsky.social, Michelle Evans, & I discuss the key findings from our recent @poppublicsphere.bsky.social article on prospective Indigenous candidates:

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Indigenous political candidates face less voter bias than parties might think: new research
A world-first study involving 4,000 Australian adults shows political parties shouldn’t assume Indigenous candidates will face voter rejection.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Do Authoritarians Support Political Violence? - https://cup.org/43p5yL9

- Bryan T. Gervais, Connor Dye, Gabriel Acevedo, Christopher G. Ellison & Margaret S. Kelley

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November 12, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Theory Reconstruction: An Approach to Conceptual Innovation in Political Science - https://cup.org/4oWifp0

- Rachel Meade & Marcus Walton

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November 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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#Theory #Reconstruction: An Approach to #Conceptual #Innovation in #Political #Science

By Rachel Meade & Marcus Walton

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November 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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In this new paper with Spencer Goidel and @barmstrong.bsky.social, we show that the drug crisis boosts Republican vote, especially among independents, by lowering both Democratic support and abstention.
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The #Drug #Crisis and #Voting #Behavior

By Thiago M.Q. Moreira, Spencer Hamilton Goidel & @barmstrong.bsky.social

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November 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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The #Drug #Crisis and #Voting #Behavior

By Thiago M.Q. Moreira, Spencer Hamilton Goidel & @barmstrong.bsky.social

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November 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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For the "big picture" of all Muslim members of the parliaments across 26 European countries check out our
@poppublicsphere.bsky.social article "Institutionalization of Ethnocultural Diversity and the Representation of European Muslims" @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org
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Institutionalization of Ethnocultural Diversity and the Representation of European Muslims | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
Institutionalization of Ethnocultural Diversity and the Representation of European Muslims - Volume 19 Issue 2
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November 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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This was a fun project to work on.

Check out our new paper, out in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social now! ⬇️
October 31, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Check out or new article — published today in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social — where we discuss and provide guidelines for the construction and use of datasets.

We draw on our lessons from three major data collection efforts on education policies and systems 👇
October 30, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Enhancing #Transparency & #Replicability in #Data #Collection: Lessons from the Construction of 3 #Education #Datasets

By @adridelrio.bsky.social, Woseeok Kim, @chknutsen.bsky.social, @anjaneundorf.bsky.social, Agustina S. Paglayan & @eugenian.bsky.social

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Enhancing Transparency and Replicability in Data Collection: Lessons from the Construction of Three Education Datasets - cup.org/47wj0Oy

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Excited to share my new publication @poppublicsphere.bsky.social! We often think that women’s formal political participation began in the 1900s. Using archival records from over 150 assembly meetings between 1493-1789 in France, I show that, in fact, some women had political rights much earlier!
The Political Limits of the Patriarchy: Women’s Rights in Early Representative Institutions | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
The Political Limits of the Patriarchy: Women’s Rights in Early Representative Institutions
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October 30, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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The #Political Limits of the #Patriarchy: #Women’s #Rights in #Early #Representative #Institutions

By Carissa L. Tudor

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October 30, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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The Unitary Executive, the Constitution, and the Trajectory of the Supreme Court’s Approach to the Removal Power - https://cup.org/4qO7cQD

- Joseph Karol Natali

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Ethnicity and Strategic Repression of Protest during the 2011 Syrian Uprising - https://cup.org/431MfHr

- Konstantin Ash & Kevin Mazur

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October 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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The #Unitary #Executive, the #Constitution, & the #Trajectory of the #Supreme #Court’s #Approach to the #Removal #Power

By Joseph Karol Natali

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October 28, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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The Responsibility to Be Reasonable: Conceptualizing #Executive #Shirking in #Civil–#Military #Relations

By @drprofivey.bsky.social

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October 28, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Here, @sandrahkansson.bsky.social develops a theoretical framework for studying the gendered costs of political violence for representation, and tests it using interview and survey data on Swedish women and men politicians.
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The Gendered Representational Costs of Violence against Politicians | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
The Gendered Representational Costs of Violence against Politicians - Volume 22 Issue 1
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October 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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A Space for Autonomy: Indigenous Rights in Post-Independence Latin America - https://cup.org/47rTwBI

- Christopher L. Carter

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A Space for #Autonomy: #Indigenous #Rights in Post-Independence #Latin #America

By Christopher L. Carter

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October 27, 2025 at 1:10 PM