Perspectives on Politics is the American Political Science Association’s official venue for book reviews, a function inherited from the American Political Science Review when the journal was founded in 2002. It reviews approximately 250 books every year. Over the years, the APSA book review format has undergone a number of changes, and the format inherited by Perspectives centered on four main subfield categories: political theory, American politics, comparative politics, and international relations. This continues to be the basic format for most book reviews. At the same time, in recent years, the review has instituted a number of other formats for reviewing and discussing books. These formats will continue to be featured in the journal. In addition, the journal will from time to time feature special theme review sections, such as a section of reviews on China or gender or civil war. Increasingly, much of the best work in political science straddles the four basic subfields or fits uneasily within any of them, and these categories have thus come to be regarded by many scholars as anachronistic. The editorial board is thus in the process of considering a more fundamental reconsideration of the four basic subfield headings.

Please send all books for review to:
ATTN: Book Reviews
Perspectives on Politics
Department of Political Science
1100 E. 7th St
Woodburn Hall 210G
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405

James Moskowitz

Indiana University, USA

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