Racialized Realities in World Politics

Retelling Racialized Violence, Remaking White Innocence: The Politics of Interlocking Oppressions in Transgender Day of Remembrance

Transgender Day of Remembrance has become a significant political event among those resisting violence against gender-variant persons. Commemorated in more than 250 locations worldwide, this day honors individuals who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice. However, by focusing on transphobia as the definitive cause of violence, this ritual potentially obscures the ways in whic...

Demographic dimensions of world politics.

Articles Demographic Dimensions of World Politics: P. M. Hauser .......................... 1641 Population explosion has implications for the coinflict between the free world and the Communist bloc. Sir Francis Simon: P. W. Bridgman ...... .................................. 1647 Knowledge of the properties of matter at tenmperatures near absolute zero has been increased greatly by his work. Cha...

Distributive Politics Around the World

We inventory more than 150 studies of distributive politics in more than three dozen countries other than the United States. We organize existing studies under two theories: theories of democratic accountability and theories of government responsiveness. Studies that concern democratic accountability conceptualize distributive allocations as attempts by politicians to protect themselves elector...

Integrating Levels of Analysis in World Politics

‘Levels of analysis’ problems can involve issues regarding (1) the relative potency of different categories of explanatory factors, (2) the relationship between analyses focusing on different units of analysis or (3) the relationship between assumptions about individual social entities and hypotheses regarding interactions among those entities. An analysis of the manner in which economists have...

The Human Security Agenda in World Politics