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Founded in 1948, World Politics is an internationally renowned quarterly journal of political science published by Cambridge University Press and produced under the editorial sponsorship of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies at Princeton.

Due to the Coronavirus pandemic and resulting disruptions to the global supply change for the manufacture and distribution of printed journals, World Politics is available in digital format only effective March 25, 2020 until further notice. Articles are available for download at the Cambridge University Press website. Print issues will be shipped to subscribers as soon as the effects of this global disruption have subsided.

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“Human Rights Half Measures: Avoiding Accountability in Postwar Sri Lanka,” by Kate Cronin-Furman, lecturer in human rights at University College London, first published in the January 2020 issue of "World Politics," was awarded the 2020 APSA Human Rights Section Best Paper award.

Friday September 11

World Politics’ article receives APSA Human Rights Section Best Paper award

“Bridging the Gap: Lottery-Based Procedures in Early Parliamentarization,” by Alexandra Cirone, an assistant professor in the Department of Government at Cornell University, and Brenda Van Coppenolle, a lecturer in the Department of Government at the University of Essex, first published in the April 2019 issue of World Politics, was awarded an honorable mention for the 2020 APSA Mary Parker Follett prize.

Thursday September 03

World Politics’ article awarded honorable mention in APSA Mary Parker Follett Prize

Alisha Holland, associate professor in the Department of Government at Harvard University, was awarded the 2020 Seligson Prize for her paper “Diminished Expectations: Redistributive Preferences in Truncated Welfare States,” first published in World Politics in October 2018.

Thursday June 11

Holland awarded 2020 Seligson Prize

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