American Political Science Review

The “Need for Chaos” and Motivations to Share Hostile Political Rumors By Michael Bang Petersen, Aarhus University, Mathias Osmundsen, Aarhus University, Kevin Arceneaux, Sciences Po Paris Why are some people motivated to circulate hostile political […]

The Politics of Respectability and Black Americans’ Punitive Attitudes By Hakeem Jefferson, Stanford University Existing research largely ignores Black support for punitive policies that target group members, even as this support challenges expectations of in-group […]

Strategic Reporting: A Formal Model of Biases in Conflict Data By Michael Gibilisco, California Institute of Technology, and Jessica Steinberg, Indiana University During violent conflict, governments may acknowledge their use of illegitimate violence (e.g., noncombatant […]

State Support for Religion and Government Legitimacy in Christian-Majority Countries By Onathan Fox, Bar-ilan University, and Jori Breslawski, Tel Aviv University Most assume that when governments support a religion, they do so in the hope […]

Slavery and Oratory: Frederick Douglass in the History of Rhetoric By Rob Goodman, Toronto Metropolitan University The antislavery and antiracist oratory of Frederick Douglass is a powerful case study of the appropriation and transformation of […]

Revolutionary Violence and Counterrevolution By Killian Clarke, Georgetown University What type of revolutions are most vulnerable to counterrevolutions? I argue that violent revolutions are less likely than nonviolent ones to be reversed because they produce […]