Introduction to the March 2017 issue of Political Studies
| DOI | 10.1177/0032321716681927 |
| Date | 01 March 2017 |
| Published date | 01 March 2017 |
| Subject Matter | Editorial |
Political Studies
2017, Vol. 65(1) 3
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Introduction to the March
2017 issue of Political Studies
The idea that democratic publics are fed up with democracy has been doing a lot of
work recently. In this issue, we consider this theme through articles with a variety of
perspectives written by Gerry Stoker and Colin Hay, Joshua Robison, Andrew
Chadwick and James Dennis, Nicholas Clark, and Tom Van der Meer and Armen
Hakhverdian.
Andrew Hindmoor and Stephen Bell re-consider the relationship between economic
and political power in the context of the reform of banking governance, while Néstor
Castañeda writes on business and tax policy. Carolina Plescia discusses voting in Italian
regional elections, Narisong Huhe and Min Tang assess regime support in Asia, and Nikola
Mirilovic and Myunghee Kim look at American public opinion on foreign policy.
In a truly wide-reaching and varied issue, Thomas Nys and Bart Engelen judge nudg-
ing, Sophia Hatzisavvidou talks about rhetoric in contemporary Greece, Kim Angell
discusses the nature of territoriality, and Meirav Jones explores Hobbes on religion.
Editors’ Choice
Understanding and Challenging Populist Negativity towards Politics: The Perspec-
tives of British Citizens
DOI: 10.1177/0032321715607511
Popular dissatisfaction with liberal democratic processes and the attendant rise of an
‘anti-politics’ are pressing concerns for all those concerned with politics, both actors and
observers. In this article, Gerry Stoker and Colin Hay consider the morphology of ‘stealth’
and ‘sunshine’ attitudes among voters, concluding that, if we want to improve the quality
of citizens’ participation, we may do better if we look to improving the mechanisms of
representation rather than hoping to introduce more deliberation.
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