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Human Rights Violations in Space: Assessing the External Validity of Machine-Geocoded versus Human-Geocoded Data
Human Rights Violations in Space: Assessing the External Validity of Machine-Geocoded versus Human-Geocoded Data

Abstract Political event data are widely used in studies of political violence. Recent years have seen notable advances in the automated coding of political event data from international news sources. Yet, the validity of machine-coded event d [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/pan.2021.40
Type: Journal Articles
Email Mobilization Messages Suppress Turnout Among Black and Latino Voters: Experimental Evidence From the 2016 General Election
Email Mobilization Messages Suppress Turnout Among Black and Latino Voters: Experimental Evidence From the 2016 General Election

Abstract Email can deliver mobilization messages at considerably lower cost than direct mail. While voters’ email addresses are readily available, experimental work from 2007 to 2012 suggests that email mobilization is ineffective in most cont [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/XPS.2021.34
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Can Appeals for Peace Promote Tolerance and Mitigate Support for Extremism? Evidence from an Experiment with Adolescents in Burkina Faso
Can Appeals for Peace Promote Tolerance and Mitigate Support for Extremism? Evidence from an Experiment with Adolescents in Burkina Faso

Abstract Recent efforts to improve attitudes toward outgroups and reduce support for extremists in violent settings report mixed results. Donors and aid organizations have spent millions of dollars to amplify the voices of moderate religious f [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/XPS.2022.1
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Daughters Do Not Affect Political Beliefs in a New Democracy
Daughters Do Not Affect Political Beliefs in a New Democracy

Abstract A consistent finding in industrialized democracies is that having a daughter shapes parents’ attitudes and behaviors in gender-egalitarian ways. We test whether this finding travels to a young middle-income democracy where women’s rig [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/XPS.2022.3
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Can Policy Responses to Pandemics Reduce Mass Fear?
Can Policy Responses to Pandemics Reduce Mass Fear?

Abstract To successfully address large-scale public health threats such as the novel coronavirus outbreak, policymakers need to limit feelings of fear that threaten social order and political stability. We study how policy responses to an infe [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/XPS.2022.7
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Relative Gains in the Shadow of a Trade War
Relative Gains in the Shadow of a Trade War

Abstract When do people care about relative gains in trade? Much of the international relations scholarship—and much of the political rhetoric on trade—would lead us to expect support for a trade policy that benefits ourselves more than it ben [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020818322000030
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Corporate Sovereign Awakening and the Making of Modern State Sovereignty: New Archival Evidence from the English East India Company
Corporate Sovereign Awakening and the Making of Modern State Sovereignty: New Archival Evidence from the English East India Company

Abstract The English East India Company's “company-state” lasted 274 years—longer than most states. This research note uses new archival evidence to study the Company as a catalyst in the development of modern state sovereignty. Drawing on the [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S002081832200008X
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Smuggling and Border Enforcement
Smuggling and Border Enforcement

Abstract This article analyzes the efficacy of border enforcement against smuggling. We argue that walls, fences, patrols, and other efforts to secure porous borders can reduce smuggling, but only in the absence of collusion between smugglers [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S002081832200011X
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The Ex-Factor: Examining the Gendered Effect of Divorce on Voter Turnout
The Ex-Factor: Examining the Gendered Effect of Divorce on Voter Turnout

Abstract The absence of a gendered analysis of the effect of marriage on voting is surprising given researchers’ cognizance of the heterogeneous effects of marriage on a range of other social outcomes. In this paper, we shed new light on spous [...]

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DOI: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-politicalscience/
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Informing the Leader: Bureaucracies and International Crises
Informing the Leader: Bureaucracies and International Crises

Abstract Whether international crises end in conflict frequently depends on the information that leaders possess. To better explain how leaders acquire information, I develop and test an informational theory of bureaucracies during crises. Tim [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055422000168
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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 [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055422000302
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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 [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055422000338
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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 [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055422000223
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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, [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S000305542200020X
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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 [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108333580
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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 [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055422000417
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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 [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055422000375
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Introduction to Political Science
Introduction to Political Science

Designed to meet the scope and sequence of your course, OpenStax Introduction to Political Science provides a strong foundation in global political systems, exploring how and why political realities unfold. Rich with examples of individual and [...]

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DOI: https://openstax.org/details/books/introduction-political-science
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American Government 3e
American Government 3e

American Government 3e aligns with the topics and objectives of many government courses. Faculty involved in the project have endeavored to make government workings, issues, debates, and impacts meaningful and memorable to students while maint [...]

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DOI: https://openstax.org/details/books/american-government-3e
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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 [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-polisci-051120-013916
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The Effect of Television Advertising in United States Elections
The Effect of Television Advertising in United States Elections

Abstract: We provide a comprehensive assessment of the influence of television advertising on United States election outcomes from 2000–2018. We expand on previous research by including presidential, Senate, House, gubernatorial, Attorney Gene [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S000305542100112X
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Gender and policy persuasion
Gender and policy persuasion

Abstract: Are policy arguments more or less persuasive when they are made by female politicians? Using a diverse sample of American respondents, we conduct a survey experiment which randomly varies the gender associated with two co-partisan ca [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2021.4
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Introduction to College Research
Introduction to College Research

Why This Book? The key to success in college research is to develop and hone your information literacy skills. These skills will prepare you to find and use information not only for college, but also in the workplace and your personal life. Ha [...]

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DOI: https://introtocollegeresearch.pressbooks.com/
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Gender Quotas and International Reputation
Gender Quotas and International Reputation

The global spread of electoral gender quotas has been characterized as one of the most significant institutional developments of the last 30 years. Many of the countries that have adopted these laws designed to increase women's political repre [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12557
Type: Journal Articles