‘World Politics’ articles receive recognition at American Political Science Association annual meeting

Two articles published in the July 2024 issue of World Politics received recognition at the American Political Science Association (APSA) annual meeting, which took place from September 11 to 14, 2025, in Vancouver, Canada.

“Elite Management before Autocratic Leader Succession: Evidence from North Korea” by Edward Goldring, lecturer in political science at the University of Melbourne, and Peter Ward, a research fellow at the Sejong Institute, won the Best Article prize in the Democracy and Autocracy section. 

“Concept Misformation in the Age of Democratic Anxiety: Recent Temptations and Their Downsides” by Kurt Weyland, Mike Hogg Professor in Liberal Arts in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin, received Honorable Mention in the Qualitative and Multi-Methods Research section.

World Politics previously highlighted both articles in its Storied Teller series of interviews, designed to extend World Politics’ content to a non-academic audience. 

The journal’s executive editor Emily Babson spoke with Goldring and Ward about why it’s important to include North Korea in research on comparative authoritarianism, and to Weyland on the temptations and dangers of using imprecise terms for current events and the responsibility of the scholar in public discourse.

Founded in 1948, World Politics is an internationally recognized quarterly journal of political science published by Johns Hopkins University Press and produced under the editorial sponsorship of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS).