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Failing the Test: The Countervailing Attitudinal Effects of Civil Service Examinations
Failing the Test: The Countervailing Attitudinal Effects of Civil Service Examinations

I surveyed the universe of recent applicants to the Indonesian civil service to study the effects of high-stakes examinations on political attitudes. Leveraging applicants’ scores on the civil service examination, I employ a regression discont [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055422001149
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Realism and Responsible Parties
Realism and Responsible Parties

Realism can mean many things in political theory. This article focuses on “common-sense realism,” an approach to decision making under uncertainty characterized by its posture toward risk. Common-sense realist arguments have become popular in [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055422001204
Type: Journal Articles
Laboratories of Democratic Backsliding
Laboratories of Democratic Backsliding

The Trump presidency generated concern about democratic backsliding and renewed interest in measuring the national democratic performance of the United States. However, the US has a decentralized form of federalism that administers democratic [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055422000934
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Ticketing and Turnout: The Participatory Consequences of Low-Level Police Contact
Ticketing and Turnout: The Participatory Consequences of Low-Level Police Contact

The American criminal legal system is an important site of political socialization: scholars have shown that criminal legal contact reduces turnout and that criminalization pushes people away from public institutions more broadly. Despite this [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055422001265
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Government Rhetoric and the Representation of Public Opinion in International Negotiations
Government Rhetoric and the Representation of Public Opinion in International Negotiations

The role of domestic public opinion is an important topic in research on international negotiations, yet we know little about how exactly it manifests itself. We focus on government rhetoric during negotiations and develop a conceptual distinc [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055422001198
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Ideology Critique without Morality: A Radical Realist Approach
Ideology Critique without Morality: A Radical Realist Approach

What is the point of ideology critique? Prominent Anglo-American philosophers recently proposed novel arguments for the view that ideology critique is moral critique, and ideologies are flawed insofar as they contribute to injustice or oppress [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055422001216
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How Exile Shapes Online Opposition: Evidence from Venezuela
How Exile Shapes Online Opposition: Evidence from Venezuela

How does exile affect online dissent? By internationalizing activists’ networks and removing them from day-to-day life under the regime, we argue that exile fundamentally alters activists’ political opportunities and strategic behavior. We tes [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055422001290
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Strategic Reporting: A Formal Model of Biases in Conflict Data
Strategic Reporting: A Formal Model of Biases in Conflict Data

During violent conflict, governments may acknowledge their use of illegitimate violence (e.g., noncombatant casualties) even though such violence can depress civilian support. Why would they do so? We model the strategic incentives affecting g [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055422001162
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Narrativizing the self: how do the migrant experiences matter for joint belongingness?
Narrativizing the self: how do the migrant experiences matter for joint belongingness?

The fundamental principles of integration are increasingly criticized while indicator-informed-integration (III) remains an aspiration for policymakers. In contrast, we argue that integration and in particular its social variant cannot be meas [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2022.2078219
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Coming out to Vote: The Construction of a Lesbian and Gay Electoral Constituency in the United States
Coming out to Vote: The Construction of a Lesbian and Gay Electoral Constituency in the United States

Using the formation of a lesbian and gay electoral constituency as a case, this article demonstrates how activists and party elites contest and construct collective identities and groups. Activist–party interactions produce identity-building f [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055421001465
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Making Unequal Democracy Work? The Effects of Income on Voter Turnout in Northern Italy
Making Unequal Democracy Work? The Effects of Income on Voter Turnout in Northern Italy

In many democracies, voter turnout is higher among the rich than the poor. But do changes in income lead to changes in electoral participation? We address this question with unique administrative data matching a decade of individual tax record [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12605
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The Case for Case Studies
The Case for Case Studies

This book seeks to narrow two gaps: first, between the widespread use of case studies and their frequently 'loose' methodological moorings; and second, between the scholarly community advancing methodological frontiers in case study research a [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108688253
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Sovereignty, Substance, and Public Support for European Courts’ Human Rights Rulings
Sovereignty, Substance, and Public Support for European Courts’ Human Rights Rulings

Abstract Is the public backlash against human rights rulings from European courts driven by substantive concerns over case outcomes, procedural concerns over sovereignty, or combinations thereof? We conducted preregistered survey experiments i [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055421001143
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Representative Democracy and Colonial Inspirations: The Case of John Stuart Mill
Representative Democracy and Colonial Inspirations: The Case of John Stuart Mill

Abstract Focusing on John Stuart Mill, a particularly illuminating contributor to modern democratic theory, this article examines the connections between modern democracy and the European colonial experience. It argues that Mill drew on the ex [...]

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DOI: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-politicalscience/
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The Colonial Origins of Modern Territoriality: Property Surveying in the Thirteen Colonies
The Colonial Origins of Modern Territoriality: Property Surveying in the Thirteen Colonies

Most scholars agree the rise of states led to modern territoriality. Yet globally the transition to precise boundaries occurred most often in colonies, and there are virtually no systematic explanations of its occurrence outside Europe. This a [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055421001295
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Group Size and Protest Mobilization across Movements and Countermovements
Group Size and Protest Mobilization across Movements and Countermovements

Abstract Many social movements face fierce resistance in the form of a countermovement. Therefore, when deciding to become politically active, a movement supporter has to consider both her own movement’s activity and that of the opponent. This [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055421001131
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The Curse of Good Intentions: Why Anticorruption Messaging Can Encourage Bribery
The Curse of Good Intentions: Why Anticorruption Messaging Can Encourage Bribery

Abstract Awareness-raising messages feature prominently in most anticorruption strategies. Yet, there has been limited systematic research into their efficacy. There is growing concern that anticorruption awareness-raising efforts may be backf [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055421001398
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Enfranchisement and Incarceration after the 1965 Voting Rights Act
Enfranchisement and Incarceration after the 1965 Voting Rights Act

Abstract The 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) fundamentally changed the distribution of electoral power in the US South. We examine the consequences of this mass enfranchisement of Black people for the use of the carceral state—police, the courts, [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055421001337
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“I’m Not Sure What to Believe”: Media Distrust and Opinion Formation during the COVID-19 Pandemic
“I’m Not Sure What to Believe”: Media Distrust and Opinion Formation during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract Social scientists have documented rapid polarization in public opinion about COVID-19 policies. Such polarization is somewhat unsurprising given experimental studies that show opinions on novel issues can diverge quickly in the presen [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S000305542200003X
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Saving Migrants’ Basic Human Rights from Sovereign Rule
Saving Migrants’ Basic Human Rights from Sovereign Rule

Abstract States cannot legitimately enforce their borders against migrants if dominant conceptions of sovereignty inform enforcement because these conceptions undermine sufficient respect for migrants’ basic human rights. Instead, such concept [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055422000028
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Historical Border Changes, State Building, and Contemporary Trust in Europe
Historical Border Changes, State Building, and Contemporary Trust in Europe

Abstract Political borders profoundly influence outcomes central to international politics. Accordingly, a growing literature shows that historical boundaries affect important macro-outcomes such as patterns of interstate disputes and trade. T [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055421001428
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Federalism, Policy Diffusion, and Gender Equality: Explaining Variation in State Domestic Violence Firearm Laws 1990–2017
Federalism, Policy Diffusion, and Gender Equality: Explaining Variation in State Domestic Violence Firearm Laws 1990–2017

Abstract This work explores the ways that federalism exacerbates gender inequality among women by explaining the adoption of domestic violence laws across different states in the context of policy diffusion. Using an original dataset of domest [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/spq.2021.35
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Generative Dynamics of Supreme Court Citations: Analysis with a New Statistical Network Model
Generative Dynamics of Supreme Court Citations: Analysis with a New Statistical Network Model

Abstract The significance and influence of U.S. Supreme Court majority opinions derive in large part from opinions’ roles as precedents for future opinions. A growing body of literature seeks to understand what drives the use of opinions as pr [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/pan.2021.20
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How Populist are Parties? Measuring Degrees of Populism in Party Manifestos Using Supervised Machine Learning
How Populist are Parties? Measuring Degrees of Populism in Party Manifestos Using Supervised Machine Learning

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/pan.2021.29
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