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Perspectives on Politics provides political insight on important problems through rigorous, broad-based research and integrative thought. The journal enables members of different subfields to speak with one another--and with knowledgeable people outside the discipline--about issues of common interest; it aspires to be provocative, even edgy, while maintaining the highest academic standards. Each issue of the journal also features reviews of over 50 books.

Editor: Jeffrey C. Isaac, Indiana University

December 2009 Volume 07 Issue 04

Editor's "Introduction and Comments":

In political science as in life, timing is everything. Actors act. Events unfold. Institutions evolve. Regimes transition. Journals change hands. Articles accepted under one editor are readied for publication by another. And all the while things happen politically. In the broadest sense political science at its best is a never-ending, recursive conversation about this ongoing flow of events, in which the object of our inquiry—society—is a constantly shifting target that is at once reflected in, tracked by, and influenced by our intellectual labors, and in which our inquiry itself uncessantly shifts, grows, and simply moves onwards, however one judges this forward movement.

- Jeffrey C. Isaac, Editor

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Perspectives Introduces New Editor
Jeffrey C. Isaac, James H. Rudy Professor of Political Science and Director of the Indiana Democracy Consortium at Indiana University, began his term as Editor-in-Chief of Perspectives on Politics in July 2009. Professor Isaac assumes responsibility for editing the entire journal, including the Book Review, following his service since 2005 as the journal’s Book Review Editor. More »

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