Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society attempts to bring political theory into contact with empirical reality, particularly epistemic reality. See, for example:

• roundtable on political epistemology in conjunction with the Ideas, Knowledge, and Politics section of the American Political Science Association
• roundtable on epistemic democracy in conjunction with the Ideas, Knowledge, and Politics section of the American Political Science Association
• roundtable on ideational turns in political science in conjunction with the Ideas, Knowledge, and Politics section of the American Political Science Association
• symposium on Hélène Landemore’s Democratic Reason
• symposium on Ilya Somin’s Democracy and Political Ignorance
• Colin Hay, Oscar Larsson, and Vivien Schmidt debate the role of ideas in politics
• Paul Gunn and Jonathan Kuyper debate the systemic turn in deliberative democratic theory
• symposium on Diana Mutz’s Hearing the Other Side

We encourage the submission of papers and review essays on epistemological problems in politics: Where do political actors' assumptions, perceptions, beliefs, theories, and ideologies originate; how reliable are these sources likely to be; and what are the normative implications if these sources are unreliable? Here are some examples that have appeared in recent issues:

• Kai Jaeger, “Big Data Cannot Predict the Future”
• Nick Cowen, Nancy Cartwright, et al., “Randomized Controlled Trials: How Can We Know ‘What Works’?”
• Jeffrey Friedman, “The Problem of Epistocratic Identification and the (Possibly) Dysfunctional Division of Epistemic Labor”
• Zeljka Buturovic and Slavisa Tasic, “Kahneman's Failed Revolution Against Economic Orthodoxy”
• David Tuckett et al. on economists’ attribution of omniscience to economic agents
• Joseph Uscinski and Ryden Butler, “The Epistemology of Fact Checking”

Books

The Critical Review Foundation has also published books spun off from Critical Review or congruent with political epistemology:

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