Perspectives on Politics is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering political science. It was established in 2003 and is published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Political Science Association. The editors-in-chief are Ana Arjona and Wendy Pearlman (Northwestern University). The associate editor is Shmuel Nili (Northwestern); the founding editor was Jennifer Hochschild.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index and Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 3.234, ranking it 8th out of 165 journals in the category "Political Science".