As Americans made their voices heard in the November 2020 election, the Springer Nature team explores research from across Palgrave and Springer on major issues of importance to our country.

Between a pandemic and a historic racial justice movement, there is no doubt that 2020 has marked a rupture in the business-as-usual of US politics. Topics like universal vote-by-mail and criminal justice reform have become ubiquitous in mainstream political discourse. Rarely have we seen such an intensity of dialogue between the study of politics and the practice of it. In this collection, our authors and series editors reflect on US Politics and political institutions from a diverse range of scholarly perspectives to spark further discussion about the past, present and future of American politics.

Read more blog pieces from our US Politics authors here.

We are proud to share a selection of articles from across our journals in the Social Sciences offering research and information as the United States moves into a new era.

Read these articles free until November 10th!

• I choose you! Interest group endorsements in the 2018 US House midterm elections

• Lobbying and policy conflict: explaining interest groups’ promiscuous relationships to political parties

Political Behavior

• Ideology and Gender in U.S. House Elections
• Has Trump Damaged the U.S. Image Abroad? Decomposing the Effects of Policy Messages on Foreign Public Opinion
• In-Group Love and Out-Group Hate: White Racial Attitudes in Contemporary U.S. Elections

Call for Proposals

• The Evolving American Presidency
• Palgrave Studies in US Elections
• Elections, Voting, Technology

See more research on Elections around the world.