All CC BY

View:
Migration and the Demand for Transnational Justice
Migration and the Demand for Transnational Justice

Abstract Domestic courts sometimes prosecute foreign nationals for severe crimes—like crimes against humanity, genocide, torture, and war crimes—committed on foreign territory against foreign nationals. We argue that migrants can serve as agen [...]

License: CC BY
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055422000302
Type: Journal Articles
Voting for Votes: Opposition Parties’ Legislative Activity and Electoral Outcomes
Voting for Votes: Opposition Parties’ Legislative Activity and Electoral Outcomes

Abstract Scholars frequently expect parties to act strategically in parliament, hoping to affect their electoral fortunes. Voters assumingly assess parties by their activity and vote accordingly. However, the retrospective voting literature lo [...]

License: CC BY
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055422000338
Type: Journal Articles
Creating Climate Coalitions: Mass Preferences for Compensating Vulnerability in the World’s Two Largest Democracies
Creating Climate Coalitions: Mass Preferences for Compensating Vulnerability in the World’s Two Largest Democracies

Abstract Combating climate change requires large economic adjustments with significant distributional implications. To build coalitions of support, scholars and policy makers propose compensating individuals who will bear decarbonization’s cos [...]

License: CC BY
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055422000223
Type: Journal Articles
Intrinsic Social Incentives in State and Non-State Armed Groups
Intrinsic Social Incentives in State and Non-State Armed Groups

Abstract How do non-state armed groups (NSAGs) survive and even thrive in situations where state armed groups (SAGs) collapse, despite the former’s often greater material adversity? We argue that, optimizing under their different constraints, [...]

License: CC BY
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S000305542200020X
Type: Journal Articles
The Competing Influence of Policy Content and Political Cues: Cross-Border Evidence from the United States and Canada
The Competing Influence of Policy Content and Political Cues: Cross-Border Evidence from the United States and Canada

Abstract When individuals evaluate policies, they consider both the policy’s content and its endorsers. In this study, we investigate the conditions under which these sometimes competing factors guide preferences. In an effort to combat the sp [...]

License: CC BY
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108333580
Type: Journal Articles
Land and Legibility: When Do Citizens Expect Secure Property Rights in Weak States?
Land and Legibility: When Do Citizens Expect Secure Property Rights in Weak States?

Abstract Legibility and political authority are often conflated in debates over formalization processes, including land titling. This can lead to a fundamental misunderstanding of what it is that citizens anticipate would strengthen their prop [...]

License: CC BY
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055422000417
Type: Journal Articles
Canvassing the Gatekeepers: A Field Experiment to Increase Women Voters’ Turnout in Pakistan
Canvassing the Gatekeepers: A Field Experiment to Increase Women Voters’ Turnout in Pakistan

Abstract How can we close persistent gender gaps in political participation? We develop a theory highlighting the role of male household members as “gatekeepers” of women’s participation in patriarchal settings and argue that the answer involv [...]

License: CC BY
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055422000375
Type: Journal Articles
The American Political Economy: Markets, Power, and the Meta Politics of US Economic Governance
The American Political Economy: Markets, Power, and the Meta Politics of US Economic Governance

Abstract This article provides an overview of the emerging field of American political economy (APE). Methodologically eclectic, this field seeks to understand the interaction of markets and government in America's unequal and polarized polity [...]

License: CC BY
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-polisci-051120-013916
Type: Journal Articles
Propaganda, Presumed Influence, and Collective Protest
Propaganda, Presumed Influence, and Collective Protest

Political propaganda can reduce citizens’ inclinations to protest by directly influencing their preferences or beliefs about the government. However, given that protest is risky in authoritarian societies and requires collective participation, [...]

License: CC BY
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-021-09683-0
Type: Journal Articles
Studying Policy Design Quality in Comparative Perspective
Studying Policy Design Quality in Comparative Perspective

This article is a first attempt to systematically examine policy design and its influence on policy effectiveness in a comparative perspective. We begin by providing a novel concept and measure of policy design. Our Average Instrument Diversit [...]

License: CC BY
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055421000186
Type: Journal Articles
The Two-Pronged Middle Class: The Old Bourgeoisie, New State-Engineered Middle Class, and Democratic Development
The Two-Pronged Middle Class: The Old Bourgeoisie, New State-Engineered Middle Class, and Democratic Development

We contribute to research on the democratic role of middle classes. Our paper distinguishes between middle classes emerging autonomously during gradual capitalist development and those fabricated rapidly as part of state-led modernization. To [...]

License: CC BY
DOI: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-politicalscience/
Type: Journal Articles
Party over Pocketbook? How Party Cues Influence Opinion When Citizens Have a Stake in Policy
Party over Pocketbook? How Party Cues Influence Opinion When Citizens Have a Stake in Policy

Do political parties influence opinion when citizens have a personal stake in policy? With an experimental design that exploits a naturally occurring, sharp variation in party cues, we study the effects of party cues during a collective bargai [...]

License: CC BY
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055421000332
Type: Journal Articles
The Journey Home: Violence, Anchoring, and Refugee Decisions to Return
The Journey Home: Violence, Anchoring, and Refugee Decisions to Return

While the UNHCR promotes voluntary repatriation as the preferred solution to refugee situations, there is little understanding of variation in refugees’ preferences regarding return. We develop a theoretical framework suggesting two mechanisms [...]

License: CC BY
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055421000344
Type: Journal Articles
Social Origins of Dictatorships: Elite Networks and Political Transitions in Haiti
Social Origins of Dictatorships: Elite Networks and Political Transitions in Haiti

Existing theories of democratic reversals emphasize that elites mount actions like coups when democracy is particularly threatening to their interests. However, existing theory has been largely silent on the role of elite social networks, whic [...]

License: CC BY
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055421000289
Type: Journal Articles
Playing to the Gallery: Emotive Rhetoric in Parliaments
Playing to the Gallery: Emotive Rhetoric in Parliaments

Research has shown that emotions matter in politics, but we know less about when and why politicians use emotive rhetoric in the legislative arena. This article argues that emotive rhetoric is one of the tools politicians can use strategically [...]

License: CC BY
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055421000356
Type: Journal Articles
Gender and Party Discipline: Evidence from Africa’s Emerging Party Systems
Gender and Party Discipline: Evidence from Africa’s Emerging Party Systems

Are men and women legislators equally loyal to their parties? We theorize that parties select candidates based on gendered criteria, leading to the (s)election of more disciplined women. Moreover, we argue that gendered expectations about prop [...]

License: CC BY
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055421000368
Type: Journal Articles
Railroads and Reform: How Trains Strengthened the Nation State
Railroads and Reform: How Trains Strengthened the Nation State

This paper examines the relationship between the coming of the railroads, the expansion of primary education, and the introduction of national school curricula. Using fine-grained data on local education outcomes in Sweden in the nineteenth ce [...]

License: CC BY
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123420000654
Type: Journal Articles
Studying Policy Design Quality in Comparative Perspective
Studying Policy Design Quality in Comparative Perspective

This article is a first attempt to systematically examine policy design and its influence on policy effectiveness in a comparative perspective. We begin by providing a novel concept and measure of policy design. Our Average Instrument Diversit [...]

License: CC BY
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055421000186
Type: Journal Articles
Why Austerity? The Mass Politics of a Contested Policy
Why Austerity? The Mass Politics of a Contested Policy

Abstract: The effects of austerity in response to financial crises are widely contested and assumed to cause significant electoral backlash. Nonetheless, governments routinely adopt austerity when confronting economic downturns and swelling de [...]

License: CC BY
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055420001136
Type: Journal Articles
Why Parties Displace Their Voters: Gentrification, Coalitional Change, and the Demise of Public Housing
Why Parties Displace Their Voters: Gentrification, Coalitional Change, and the Demise of Public Housing

Abstract: Across advanced economies, affordable housing shortages are pushing low-income voters out of cities. Left governments frequently exacerbate these shortages by eliminating public housing. Why does the Left pursue policies that displac [...]

License: CC BY
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055421000058
Type: Journal Articles
From Thin to Thick Representation: How a Female President Shapes Female Parliamentary Behavior
From Thin to Thick Representation: How a Female President Shapes Female Parliamentary Behavior

Abstract: How does the symbolic power of a female president affect female parliamentary behavior? Whereas female descriptive representation has increased around the world, women parliamentarians still face significant discrimination and stereo [...]

License: CC BY
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S000305542100006X
Type: Journal Articles
Military responses to COVID-19, emerging trends in global civil-military engagements
Military responses to COVID-19, emerging trends in global civil-military engagements

Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic is giving way to increases in military engagements in health-related activities at the domestic level. This article situates these engagements amid issues of continuity, change, and resistance in contemporary re [...]

License: CC BY
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210521000048
Type: Journal Articles
Backlash to policy decisions: how citizens react to immigrants’ rights to demonstrate
Backlash to policy decisions: how citizens react to immigrants’ rights to demonstrate

Abstract: Focusing on one specific aspect of immigrant political integration—how authorities deal with their political right to demonstrate—we show in a large-scale survey experiment that liberal policy decisions permitting demonstrations lead [...]

License: CC BY
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2020.44
Type: Journal Articles
Measuring Ethnic Bias: Can Misattribution-Based Tools from Social Psychology Reveal Group Biases that Economics Games Cannot?
Measuring Ethnic Bias: Can Misattribution-Based Tools from Social Psychology Reveal Group Biases that Economics Games Cannot?

Abstract: Economics games such as the Dictator and Public Goods Games have been widely used to measure ethnic bias in political science and economics. Yet these tools may fail to measure bias as intended because they are vulnerable to self-pre [...]

License: CC BY
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/pan.2020.37
Type: Journal Articles