American Political Science Review

How Do Politicians Bargain? Evidence from Ultimatum Games with Legislators in Five Countries By Lior Sheffer, Tel Aviv University, Peter John Loewen, University of Toronto, Stefaan Walgrave, University of Antwerp, Stefanie Bailer, University of Basel, […]

Hobbes and Hats By Teresa M. Bejan, University of Oxford There is no more analyzed image in the history of political thought than the frontispiece of Hobbes’s Leviathan (1651), yet the tiny figures making up the giant […]

Emotional Sensibility: Exploring the Methodological and Ethical Implications of Research Participants’ Emotions By Wendy Pearlman, Northwestern University Although political science increasingly investigates emotions as variables, it often ignores emotions’ larger significance due to their inherence […]

Embedding Regression: Models for Context-Specific Description and Inference By Pedro L. Rodriguez, New York University, Arthur Spirling, New York University, and Brandon M. Stewart, Princeton University Social scientists commonly seek to make statements about how […]

Do Women Make More Protectionist Trade Policy? By Timm Betz, Technical University of Munich, David Fortunato, University of California, San Diego, and Copenhagen Business School, Diana Z. O’Brien, Washington University in St. Louis Women have […]

Antidote to Backsliding: Ethnic Politics and Democratic Resilience By Jan Rovny, Sciences Po Paris Recent years have witnessed significant democratic erosion, particularly in eastern Europe. This article suggests that the explanations of democratic backsliding, largely […]