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Policy Threat, Partisanship, and the Case of the Affordable Care Act
Policy Threat, Partisanship, and the Case of the Affordable Care Act

How do political conditions influence whether public support develops for a new policy? Specifically, does the presence of partisan polarization and a viable threat to a policy’s continuation prevent the emergence of such support? We propose a [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055422000612
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Development in Decolonization: Walter Rodney, Third World Developmentalism, and “Decolonizing Political Theory”
Development in Decolonization: Walter Rodney, Third World Developmentalism, and “Decolonizing Political Theory”

Developmentalism is the idea that progress entails the temporal movement of societies along a universal trajectory. Prevailing accounts conceptualize Eurocentric developmental discourses as ideological weapons of imperial domination, specifica [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055422000570
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“It’s Like Shouting to a Brick Wall”: Normative Whiteness and Racism in the European Parliament
“It’s Like Shouting to a Brick Wall”: Normative Whiteness and Racism in the European Parliament

There is a notable gap in the academic literature on racism within European Union institutions. This article scrutinizes racism and normative whiteness in one of these institutions—namely, the European Parliament. The article asks how European [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S000305542200065X
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The Marketplace of Ideas and the Agora: Herodotus on the Power of Isegoria
The Marketplace of Ideas and the Agora: Herodotus on the Power of Isegoria

Popular discourse about freedom of speech tends to default to the metaphor of the marketplace of ideas, notwithstanding empirical evidence undermining this concept. Its persistence illustrates the profound attachment freedom of speech inspires [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055422000661
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The Politics of Police Data: State Legislative Capacity and the Transparency of State and Substate Agencies
The Politics of Police Data: State Legislative Capacity and the Transparency of State and Substate Agencies

Police, like other bureaucratic agencies, are responsible for collecting and disseminating policy-relevant data. Nonetheless, critical data, including killings by police, often go unreported. We argue that this is due in part to the limited ov [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055422000624
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Whitman’s Undemocratic Vistas: Mortal Anxiety, National Glory, White Supremacy
Whitman’s Undemocratic Vistas: Mortal Anxiety, National Glory, White Supremacy

Walt Whitman’s Democratic Vistas (1871) has become a touchstone of democratic theory. Commentators of unusual ideological range uphold the book as politically exemplary. This article demonstrates that recent theoretical celebrations of Democra [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055422000727
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The German Trade Shock and the Rise of the Neo-Welfare State in Early Twentieth-Century Britain
The German Trade Shock and the Rise of the Neo-Welfare State in Early Twentieth-Century Britain

We study the international origins of the neo-welfare state in Britain during the era of globalization before World War I. We introduce a new mechanism linking trade to the expansion of the state. In addition to increasing assessments of the v [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055422000673
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Facing Change: Gender and Climate Change Attitudes Worldwide
Facing Change: Gender and Climate Change Attitudes Worldwide

Gender differences in concern about climate change are highly correlated with economic development: when countries are wealthier, a gap emerges whereby women are more likely than men to express concern about our changing climate. These differe [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055422000752
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Armed Violence and Patriarchal Values: A Survey of Young Men in Thailand and Their Military Experiences
Armed Violence and Patriarchal Values: A Survey of Young Men in Thailand and Their Military Experiences

What is the relationship between armed violence and patriarchal values? This question is addressed with the help of a survey of young men in the conflict-affected southern provinces of Thailand. In Study 1 we find that men with more patriarcha [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055422000594
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Does Political Representation Increase Participation? Evidence from Party Candidate Lotteries in Mexico
Does Political Representation Increase Participation? Evidence from Party Candidate Lotteries in Mexico

How does representation by politicians from specific communities influence these communities’ political participation? Analyzing a natural experiment from Mexico in which a party uses lotteries to select candidates for public office, this pape [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055422000533
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Electoral Systems and Gender Inequality in Political News: Analyzing the News Visibility of Members of Parliament in Norway and the UK
Electoral Systems and Gender Inequality in Political News: Analyzing the News Visibility of Members of Parliament in Norway and the UK

Research continues to find gender inequality in politics and political communication, but our understanding of the variation in the degree of bias across systems is limited. A recent meta-analysis reveals how, in countries with proportional re [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055422000776
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Moderates
Moderates

Moderates are often overlooked in contemporary research on American voters. Many scholars who have examined moderates argue that these individuals are only classified as such due to a lack of political sophistication or conflicted views across [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055422000818
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Rebel Motivations and Repression
Rebel Motivations and Repression

How do different types of motivation influence the politics of collective action? We study a model of endogenous rebellion and repression to understand how different types of individual motivation affect participation, state repression, and th [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055422000600
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Symbolic Refugee Protection: Explaining Latin America’s Liberal Refugee Laws
Symbolic Refugee Protection: Explaining Latin America’s Liberal Refugee Laws

What drove an entire region in the Global South to significantly expand refugee protection in the early twenty-first century? In this paper, we test and build on political refugee theory via a mixed-methods approach to explain the liberalizati [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S000305542200082X
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Competition in Congressional Elections: Money versus Votes
Competition in Congressional Elections: Money versus Votes

Competition among candidates or parties is a necessary condition for democracy. But who counts as a candidate and what counts as competition? The influence of money in American elections makes fundraising an appropriate alternative to vote tot [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055422000764
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Can Elections Motivate Responsiveness in a Single-Party Regime? Experimental Evidence from Vietnam
Can Elections Motivate Responsiveness in a Single-Party Regime? Experimental Evidence from Vietnam

A growing body of evidence attests that legislators are sometimes responsive to the policy preferences of citizens in single-party regimes, yet debate surrounds the mechanisms driving this relationship. We experimentally test two potential res [...]

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DOI: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-politicalscience/
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The Domestic Sources of International Reputation
The Domestic Sources of International Reputation

Existing research finds that leaders develop international reputations based on their past behavior on the international stage. We argue that leaders’ domestic choices can also influence their international reputations, perhaps as much as thei [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055422000855
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Elements of External Validity: Framework, Design, and Analysis
Elements of External Validity: Framework, Design, and Analysis

The external validity of causal findings is a focus of long-standing debates in the social sciences. Although the issue has been extensively studied at the conceptual level, in practice few empirical studies include an explicit analysis that i [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055422000880
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Capture or Empowerment: Governing Citizens and the Environment in the European Renewable Energy Transition
Capture or Empowerment: Governing Citizens and the Environment in the European Renewable Energy Transition

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055422001034
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Ideology for the Future
Ideology for the Future

Political parties sometimes adopt unpopular positions that condemn them to electoral defeat. This phenomenon is usually ascribed to expressive motives—namely, parties’ desire to maintain their ideological purity. Could ideological parties inst [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055422000843
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Relaxing Assumptions, Improving Inference: Integrating Machine Learning and the Linear Regression
Relaxing Assumptions, Improving Inference: Integrating Machine Learning and the Linear Regression

Valid inference in an observational study requires a correct control specification, but a correct specification is never known. I introduce a method that constructs a control vector from the observed data that, when included in a linear regres [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055422001022
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The Perpetuity of the Past: Transmission of Political Inequality across Multiple Generations
The Perpetuity of the Past: Transmission of Political Inequality across Multiple Generations

It is a well-established fact, from decades of research on political socialization, that the children of politically active parents are more likely to become politically active themselves. This poses a challenge for democracy, as it means that [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055422001113
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Collective Remembrance and Private Choice: German–Greek Conflict and Behavior in Times of Crisis
Collective Remembrance and Private Choice: German–Greek Conflict and Behavior in Times of Crisis

When does collective memory influence behavior? We highlight two conditions under which the memory of past events comes to matter for the present: the associative nature of memory and institutionalized acts of commemoration by the state. Durin [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055422001095
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Complements or Substitutes? How Institutional Arrangements Bind Traditional Authorities and the State in Africa
Complements or Substitutes? How Institutional Arrangements Bind Traditional Authorities and the State in Africa

How does the central state affect public goods provision by local actors? I study the effect of state capacity on local governance in sub-Saharan Africa, which I argue depends on whether traditional authorities are integrated in the country’s [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055422001137
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