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Born Weak, Growing Strong: Anti-Government Protests as a Signal of Rebel Strength in the Context of Civil Wars
Born Weak, Growing Strong: Anti-Government Protests as a Signal of Rebel Strength in the Context of Civil Wars

Abstract: All rebel organizations start weak, but how do they grow and achieve favorable conflict outcomes? We present a theoretical model that allows for rebel organizations to gain support beyond their “core” and build their bargaining power [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12356
Type: Journal Articles
Comparative Causal Mediation and Relaxing the Assumption of No Mediator–Outcome Confounding: An Application to International Law and Audience Costs.
Comparative Causal Mediation and Relaxing the Assumption of No Mediator–Outcome Confounding: An Application to International Law and Audience Costs.

Abstract: Experiments often include multiple treatments, with the primary goal to compare the causal effects of those treatments. This study focuses on comparing the causal anatomies of multiple treatments through the use of causal mediation a [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/pan.2019.31
Type: Journal Articles
Digging into the Pocketbook: Evidence on Economic Voting from Income Registry Data Matched to a Voter Survey
Digging into the Pocketbook: Evidence on Economic Voting from Income Registry Data Matched to a Voter Survey

Abstract: To paint a fuller picture of economic voters, we combine personal income records with a representative election survey. We examine three central topics in the economic voting literature: pocketbook versus sociotropic voting, the effe [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055417000314
Type: Journal Articles
Double Whammy: Why the Underrepresentation of Women among Workplace and Political Decision Makers Matters in Pandemic Times
Double Whammy: Why the Underrepresentation of Women among Workplace and Political Decision Makers Matters in Pandemic Times

Abstract: In this article, we explore whether women's underrepresentation among political and workplace decision makers may subject female citizens and employees to COVID-19-related decisions that are at odds with their preferences. We find th [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X20000628
Type: Journal Articles
Elite Communication and the Popular Legitimacy of International Organizations
Elite Communication and the Popular Legitimacy of International Organizations

Abstract: This article offers the first systematic and comparative analysis of the effects of elite communication on citizen perceptions of the legitimacy of international organizations (IOs). Departing from cueing theory, it develops novel hy [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123419000620
Type: Journal Articles
For Safety or Profit? How Science Serves the Strategic Interests of Private Actors
For Safety or Profit? How Science Serves the Strategic Interests of Private Actors

Abstract: Science is central to the regulation of risk. But who provides the science on which risk regulations are based? Through an in‐depth empirical analysis of domestic health and safety standards, this article shows how private actors use [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12450
Type: Journal Articles
Human Rights are (Increasingly) Plural: Learning the Changing Taxonomy of Human Rights from Large-scale Text Reveals Information Effects
Human Rights are (Increasingly) Plural: Learning the Changing Taxonomy of Human Rights from Large-scale Text Reveals Information Effects

Abstract: This manuscript helps to resolve the ongoing debate concerning the effect of information communication technology on human rights monitoring. We reconceptualize human rights as a taxonomy of nested rights that are judged in textual r [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055420000258
Type: Journal Articles
Institutional Sources of Legitimacy for International Organisations: Beyond Procedure versus Performance
Institutional Sources of Legitimacy for International Organisations: Beyond Procedure versus Performance

Abstract: This article addresses a significant gap in the literature on legitimacy in global governance, exploring whether, in what ways, and to what extent institutional qualities of international organisations (IOs) matter for popular legiti [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S026021051900007X
Type: Journal Articles
No calm after the storm—diaspora influence on bilateral emergency aid flows
No calm after the storm—diaspora influence on bilateral emergency aid flows

Abstract: This study analyzes how migrants affect their host country's foreign policy toward their home country by measuring their influence on bilateral emergency aid. I develop the argument that besides political lobbying and the targeting o [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2019.29
Type: Journal Articles
Offsetting Uncertainty: Reassurance with Two‐Sided Incomplete Information
Offsetting Uncertainty: Reassurance with Two‐Sided Incomplete Information

Abstract: Conventional models of bargaining and reassurance under incomplete information assume that actors' behavioral signals are objectively cooperative or noncooperative. Even if actors are uncertain of each other's preferences, they know [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12464
Type: Journal Articles
Shifting visions of property under competing political regimes: changing uses of Côte d’Ivoire’s 1998 Land Law
Shifting visions of property under competing political regimes: changing uses of Côte d’Ivoire’s 1998 Land Law

Abstract: Land law reform through registration and titling is often viewed as a technocratic, good-governance step toward building market economies and depoliticising land transactions. In actual practice, however, land registration and titlin [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X18000198
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The Fate of International Monetary Systems: How and Why They Fall Apart
The Fate of International Monetary Systems: How and Why They Fall Apart

Abstract: The collapses of the interwar and Bretton Woods monetary regimes have been understood as evidence that international monetary regimes fail when sudden economic shocks destabilize the political coalitions or shared ideas underpinning [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592720002315
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The Immanent Potential of Economic and Monetary Integration: A Critical Reading of the Eurozone Crisis
The Immanent Potential of Economic and Monetary Integration: A Critical Reading of the Eurozone Crisis

Abstract: The Eurozone crisis revealed fundamental flaws in the institutional architecture of the Economic and Monetary Union. Its lack of political steering capacity has demonstrated the need for a broad but seemingly unachievable political u [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592717000081
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Winning Hearts and Minds in Civil Wars: Governance, Leadership Change, and Support for Violent Groups in Iraq
Winning Hearts and Minds in Civil Wars: Governance, Leadership Change, and Support for Violent Groups in Iraq

Abstract: The “hearts and minds” model of combating rebellions holds that civilians are less likely to support violent opposition groups if the government provides public services and security. Building on this model, we argue that a political [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12527
Type: Journal Articles