PA — 2026-08-17
Original Agile Digital Transformation and the Rule of Law: Perks and Perils in a Belgian and a Dutch Public Sector Organization
PNAS 123/34 pp. e2611580123-e2611580123 2026-08-17 Original 4000-year-old painted plaque from Southeast Indonesia reveals Austronesian Painting Tradition preceded Neolithic pottery
Sue O’Connor, Shimona Kealy, Hendri Asyhari Fajrian Kaharudin, Emily Nutman, Lucas Wattimena, Muhammad Lanang Adiyatma, Devi Mustika Sari, Yuni Suniarti, Mahirta Mahirta, Marlon N. R. Ririmasse, Sofía Samper Carro, Ceri Shipton
PAR 86/5 pp. 1178-1212 2026-08-16 Original Under Pressure: Analyzing LEO Turnover in America's Swing and Pivot Counties for 2016, 2020, 2024
Gary Johnson, Spencer Cragun, Jake Yoder
PA — 2026-08-16
Original Organizational Capacity to Implement Social Equity in Emergency Management: A Local Government Perspective
Jason D. Rivera, Claire Connolly Knox, Clinton McNair, Joseph Ripberger
PA — 2026-08-16
Original From Social Equity Budgeting to Revenue Equity: Minority Leadership and Local Governments' Exploitative Revenues
Tingzhong Huang, Rui Wang, Can Chen, Herong Gao
PNAS 123/33 pp. e2600276123-e2600276123 2026-08-14 Original The effectiveness of green place-based industrial policy: Evidence from the Inflation Reduction Act
Joep Keuzenkamp, Jacopo Mazza, Bob Rijkers, Katherine Stapleton
PSJ 54/3 2026-08-14
Original Contested Rule Formation Under Institutional Mismatch: A Framework for Early‐Phase Governance of Disruptive Innovations
PAR — 2026-08-13
Original The Gendered Path of Least Resistance: First Entry and Exit Behaviors of Public and Nonprofit Employees
Tiana Marrese, Ying Liu, Femida Handy
AJPS — 2026-08-13
Original Global harms, local profits: How the uneven costs of natural disasters affect support for green political platforms
Silvia Pianta, Paula Rettl
AJPS — 2026-08-13
Original (Non)belonging and (un)freedom
Yuna Blajer de la Garza
Abstract
Abstract This article centers on the concept of “belonging” to argue that belonging and freedom are fundamentally related, and that this relationship cannot be easily captured in formal terms alone. I contend that experiences of incomplete belonging among citizens deserve attention from political science because, in addition to their more obvious challenge to equality, they also erode freedom, even in the context of robust formal guarantees. Citizens perceived as not fully belonging are more likely to eschew behaviors or opinions they know can exacerbate the likelihood of being perceived as interlopers. But although this challenge to individual freedom may be by itself worrisome, I focus on the ways in which some citizens’ unequal belonging undermines collective freedom—what Hannah Arendt calls political freedom—by confining some people's sincere expressions to narrow public spaces, limiting pluralism, and depleting the public space of opportunities for deliberation and political action.