The quarterly journal of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Polity is committed to the publication of scholarship reflecting a wide variety of approaches to the study of politics. The journal prides itself on publishing path-breaking articles that question conventional wisdom about politics, that are accessible to a general audience of political scientists, and that will interest well-educated readers in general. Polity podcasts feature interviews with the leading author from each new issue of Polity, with lively discussion of their research and its wider application to current events and the discipline of political science.