Political Studies Review: our blog

Political Studies Review (PSR) provides a unique intellectual space for rigorous high-quality peer-reviewed original research across political science and the study of politics in related fields that aims at stimulating wide-ranging debate and cutting edge discussion of current disputes and issues in the discipline within the UK and internationally.

recent issues

Issue 4/2024: The Final Edition Managed by the Brunel University Editorial Team

Posted on November 29, 2024

Issue 3/2024: UK General Elections on Facebook, fair-weather voters, anxiety and policy, class #inequalities, and more!

Posted on August 15, 2024

Issue 2/2024: Conspiracism and Democracy, moralism, poverty porn, right-wing parties in Western Europe, research ethics in Central Asia and more.

Posted on April 26, 2024

Issue 1/2024: Press freedoms in Sub-Saharan Africa, negative social media communication and Donald Trump, political conflicts in Southern Europe, outgroup bias, migration in Germany, attitudes towards the EU agricultural policy and more

Posted on February 11, 2024

Issue 4/2023: Social democracy in Europe, economic understanding of populism, election winner–loser gap, the kafala system, political normativity and more

Posted on October 25, 2023

Issue 3/2023: Normative Behaviourism, The Substantive Representation of Disadvantaged Groups, Political Theory, Immigration and Voting and more

Posted on August 2, 2023

Issue 2/2023: Climate change, political participation, news parody, Eastern European politics and more

Posted on April 28, 2023

Issue 4/2022: Western Balkans, democratic innovations, political theory, civil society and more

Posted on November 11, 2022

Issue 3/2022: fake news, sexual assault and political behaviour, conservative values, protests and more.

Posted on August 1, 2022

Issue 2/2022: ethics, power, the boundaries of political science, gendered elections, gendered budgets and more

Posted on April 22, 2022

Political Studies Review a podcast

Podcast #17: Accounting for Culture in Policy Transfer: A Blueprint for Research and Practice- Daniel Bertram

Posted on February 3, 2022

Issue 1/2022: pluralism, academia, political participation and more

Posted on January 20, 2022

Political Studies Review a podcast

Podcast #16: Sexual Predators in Contest for Public Office: How the American Electorate Responds to News of Allegations of Candidates Committing Sexual Assault and Harassment- Stephanie Stark

Posted on November 11, 2021

Issue 4/2021: populism, social movements, elites and more

Posted on October 20, 2021

Political Studies Review a podcast

Podcast #15: Normativity in Realist Legitimacy – Ben Cross

Posted on September 2, 2021

Issue 3/2021: the electoral connection, free speech and Academia and more

Posted on August 10, 2021

PSR Interviews #8 (audio): Realism, Utopianism and Human Rights – Paul Raekstad

Posted on June 10, 2021

Issue 2/2021: democratic deliberation, COVID-19 and more

Posted on May 14, 2021

Political Studies Review a podcast

Podcast #14: Taking Modernity to Extremes: On the Roots of Anti-Politics -Matteo Truffelli, Lorenzo Zambernardi

Posted on April 21, 2021

Political Studies Review a podcast

Podcast #13: Women in the Profession: An Update on the Gendered Composition of the Discipline and Political Science Departments in the UK – Zoe Pflaeger Young

Posted on March 1, 2021

Issue 1/2021 including the special issue: Gender in the Profession

Posted on February 1, 2021

Issue 4/2020: Special Issue: The Puzzle of National Preference Formation and the Study of the Euro Crisis and other articles

Posted on November 3, 2020

Political Studies Review Special Issue 3/2020

Special Issue 3/2020: Slipping Off or Turning the Tide? Gender Equality in European Union’s External Relations in Times of Crisis

Posted on July 29, 2020

Political Studies Review Issue 2/2020

Issue 2/2020

Posted on April 29, 2020

Political Studies Review issue 1/2020

Special Issue 1/2020: President and Assemblies—25 Years After Shugart and Carey’s Book

Posted on March 10, 2020

Political Studies Review issue 3/2019

Issue 4/2019

Posted on March 10, 2020

Political Studies Review issue 4/2019

Issue 3/2019

Posted on February 20, 2020

Political Studies Review issue 2/2019

Issue 2/2019

Posted on January 20, 2020