Vol. 18 No. 2 (2018)

This issue opens with a reflection on the value of rigorous science at a time when the existence of objective facts is itself contested. Its articles span comparative politics, feminist theory, development and the history of political thought. Benjamin Tyler Leigh shows that the effect of civic education on political participation depends on the characteristics of each country. Tarsis Daylan Brito reads the 1995 Beijing Conference on women’s rights through Derrida’s concept of undecidability to propose a different strategy for global feminism. M. Rafiqul Islam argues that rainwater harvesting could ease both water scarcity and economic poverty in coastal Bangladesh. Zachary E. Shufro returns to Machiavelli’s Discourses to show how he used his Florentine contemporaries, Savonarola and Soderini among them, to define good and evil intentions in the founding of a state.