Vol. 19 No. 4 (2019)

Closing what the editorial calls an anniversary year for political science, this issue explores why political actors change course, and how they win and keep support. Verónica Gutman analyzes two decades of statements at UN climate conferences to explain why Latin American countries moved from resisting emission cuts in the 1990s to signing the Paris Agreement. She points to carbon markets, climate finance and new information as incentives that changed their behaviour. Luigi Cino draws on gradual institutional change theory to show that Tunisia’s transformation after the 2011 revolution took the form of displacement, in which old rules were removed and new ones introduced.

Two further articles turn to persuasion and consent. Samantha Trudeau reads Plato’s Lesser Hippias as a lesson for Socrates’ students, in which he shows philosophy’s superiority over sophistry through his mastery of truth and lies about justice. Yankı Doruk Doğanay uses Lacanian psychoanalysis and discourse analysis to explain how Turkey’s governing party sustains its support. Joshua Makalintal closes the issue with a review of Francis Fukuyama’s Identity.