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Open Access Journal | ISSN: 2183-2463

Politics and Governance (ISSN: 2183-2463) is an internationally peer-reviewed open access journal that publishes significant and cutting-edge research drawn from all areas of political science.

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Online Trolls: Unaffectionate Psychopaths or Just Lonely Outcasts and Angry Partisans?
Monika Verbalyte, Christoph Keitel and Christa Howard
Article | Open Access | Published: 30 December 2022
Grievance Politics: An Empirical Analysis of Anger Through the Emotional Mechanism of Ressentiment
Tereza Capelos, Mikko Salmela and Gabija Krisciunaite
Article | Open Access | Published: 30 December 2022
Loud and Negative: Exploring Negativity in Voter Thoughts About Women and Men Politicians
Tobias Rohrbach
Article | Open Access | Published: 30 December 2022
Do Leader Evaluations (De)Mobilize Voter Turnout? Lessons From Presidential Elections in the United States
Liran Harsgor and Neil Nevitte
Article | Open Access | Published: 30 December 2022
Who Are the “Dark” Politicians? Insights From Self-Reports of German State Parliament Candidates
Jürgen Maier, Mona Dian and Corinna Oschatz
Article | Open Access | Published: 30 December 2022
Fueling Toxicity? Studying Deceitful Opinion Leaders and Behavioral Changes of Their Followers
Puck Guldemond, Andreu Casas Salleras and Mariken van der Velden
Article | Open Access | Published: 30 December 2022
Negative Party Identification and the Use of Party Cues in the Direct Democratic Context
Maxime Walder and Oliver Strijbis
Article | Open Access | Published: 30 December 2022
Is Protest Only Negative? Examining the Effect of Emotions and Affective Polarization on Protest Behaviour
Luca Bettarelli, Caroline Close and Emilie van Haute
Article | Open Access | Published: 30 December 2022
The Personality Origins of Positive and Negative Partisanship
Alexa Bankert
Article | Open Access | Published: 30 December 2022
The Role of Gender in Parliamentary Attacks and Incivility
Željko Poljak
Article | Open Access | Published: 30 December 2022
The Decision to Go Negative: Election Types, Candidate Characteristics, and Electoral Competition
Huang-Ting Yan
Article | Open Access | Published: 30 December 2022
It’s All Relative: Perceptions of (Comparative) Candidate Incivility and Candidate Sympathy in Three Multiparty Elections
Chiara Vargiu
Article | Open Access | Published: 30 December 2022
How Partisanship Matters: A Panel Study on the Democratic Outcomes of Perceived Dirty Campaigning
Franz Reiter and Jörg Matthes
Article | Open Access | Published: 30 December 2022
For a Research Agenda on Negative Politics
Alessandro Nai, Diego Garzia, Loes Aaldering, Frederico Ferreira da Silva and Katjana Gattermann
Editorial | Open Access | Published: 30 December 2022
Religion, Conspiracy Thinking, and the Rejection of Democracy: Evidence From the UK
Alexander Yendell and David Herbert
Article | Open Access | Published: 24 November 2022
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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
The Paris Agreement: Short-Term and Long-Term Effectiveness
Guri Bang, Jon Hovi and Tora Skodvin
Article | Open Access | Published: 8 September 2016
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
Accomplice to Mass Atrocities: The International Community and Indonesia’s Invasion of East Timor
Clinton Fernandes
Article | Open Access | Published: 26 November 2015
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
Who Uses Right-Wing Alternative Online Media? An Exploration of Audience Characteristics
Heidi Schulze
Article | Open Access | Published: 17 July 2020
Representative Bureaucracy and the Role of Expertise in Politics
Jarle Trondal, Zuzana Murdoch and Benny Geys
Article | Open Access | Published: 31 March 2015
Globalization and Modern Slavery
Todd Landman and Bernard W. Silverman
Article | Open Access | Published: 25 November 2019
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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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
A Critical Review of Recent Literature on Populism
John Abromeit
Review | Open Access | Published: 29 December 2017
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
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
Democracy and Human Rights: Concepts, Measures, and Relationships
Todd Landman
Article | Open Access | Published: 19 March 2018
Conceptualizing and Measuring the Quality of Democracy: The Citizens’ Perspective
Dieter Fuchs and Edeltraud Roller
Article | Open Access | Published: 19 March 2018
The Impact of Brexit on EU Trade Policy
Ferdi De Ville and Gabriel Siles-Brügge
Article | Open Access | Published: 16 September 2019
The Paris Agreement: Destined to Succeed or Doomed to Fail?
Oran R. Young
Article | Open Access | Published: 8 September 2016
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From Exclusion to Co-Optation: Political Opportunity Structures and Civil Society Responses in De-Democratising Hungary
Márton Gerő, Anna Fejős, Szabina Kerényi and Dorottya Szikra
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 29 December 2022
Gender and Strategic Opposition Behavior: Patterns of Parliamentary Oversight in Belgium
Benjamin de Vet and Robin Devroe
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 16 December 2022
Multilevel Venue Shopping Amid Democratic Backsliding in New European Union Member States
Rafael Labanino and Michael Dobbins
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 15 December 2022
Interest Group Strategic Responses to Democratic Backsliding
Danica Fink-Hafner and Sara Bauman
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 14 December 2022
The Diversity of Actors in Reform Backsliding and Its Containment in the Ukrainian Hybrid Regime
Michael Martin Richter
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 13 December 2022
The Representative Potential of Interest Groups: Internal Voice in Post-Communist and Western European Countries
Joost Berkhout, Jan Beyers and Marcel Hanegraaff
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 16 November 2022
Challenges Facing Organised Interests Under a Populist Right-Wing Government in Slovenia
Meta Novak and Damjan Lajh
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 13 November 2022
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