Our community lost the inimitable Raúl Pacheco-Vega this week. Someone who knew him better than me should write a more definitive remembrance and maybe they have in some other corner of the internet. But, I haven’t seen a longer treatment yet (here is a terrific one!), so I thought I’d have a go at a remembrance. Raúl lived his life…

By Erica S. Simmons, University of Wisconsin—Madison, and Nicholas Rush Smith, City University of New York—City College and the Graduate Center and University of Johannesburg Regardless of method, political scientists often seek to develop arguments that can be generalized to a population of cases. But is this the only way to think about how cases speak to one another?

This paper argues for greater conceptual precision in citizenship studies, particularly as the field expands to include cases both globally and over time. It begins by defining citizenship as a for...

Scholarship has established the centrality of citizenship policies in the state-building agendas, but has hitherto neglected their linkages to democratic struggles in post-communist contexts. The p...

Since independence, Moldova has experienced political turbulence with cycles of democratisation and democratic backsliding. Amid this turbulence, Moldova's citizenship regime has remained relativel...

This article investigates the precarious citizenship of the Irulars, a semi-nomadic community from southern India, in the contemporary authoritarian moment in India. Drawing from five months of par...

Today, unequal citizenship is prevalent in women’s unequal ability to confer citizenship on their children in 24 countries – including Kuwait. Historical and contemporary country cases suggest that...

How are citizens made? Who and what makes a citizen? Citizens are a defining element of a democracy, but does democracy define and create citizens? Does a higher degree of democratisation in consti...

The paper examines citizenship constellations in Kosovo and Albania as a means of exploring the way in which these citizenship regimes evolved in conjunction with uneven democratic development and ...

This paper examines the transformation of citizenship in Taiwan through democratisation and decolonisation, focusing on the pivotal role of the household registration system. Originating as a colon...

Why does a population sometimes mobilise to ‘protect democracy’ but at other times does not mobilise in support of or against acts that indicate democratic backsliding? Using the case of Abkhazia, ...

This Special Issue explores the interplay between citizenship and democratic hardships in a global context. The ten contributions to this collection reflect on the range of contestations of citizen...

Call for papers We invite submissions to a workshop on the economic history and historical political economy of Eurasia. The workshop will take place at th...

To Report or Not to Report on Research Ethics in Political Science and International Relations: A New Dimension of Gender-Based Inequality By Eleanor Knott and Denisa Kostovicova, London School of Economics The profession has been increasing efforts to ensure ethical research in politics and international relations (IR) with robust institutional review procedures. But this ethics turn has not been evaluated systematically to date.