American Political Science Review

Theoretical Foundations and Empirical Evaluations of Partisan Fairness in District-Based Democracies

Theoretical Foundations and Empirical Evaluations of Partisan Fairness in District-Based Democracies By Jonathan N. Katz, California Institute of Technology, Gary King, Harvard University and Elizabeth Rosenblatt, Harvard University We clarify the theoretical foundations of partisan fairness […]

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Self-Rule and the Problem of Peoplehood in Colonial India

Self-Rule and the Problem of Peoplehood in Colonial India By Nazmul S. Sultan, University of Chicago This article theorizes the colonial problem of peoplehood that Indian anticolonial thinkers grappled with in their attempts to conceptualize […]

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What Is Spontaneous Order?

What Is Spontaneous Order? By Daniel Luban, University College, Oxford Due especially to the work of Friedrich Hayek, “spontaneous order” has become an influential concept in social theory. It seeks to explain how human practices […]

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Plato’s Myth of Er and the Reconfiguration of Nature

Plato’s Myth of Er and the Reconfiguration of Nature By Tae-Yeoun Keum, University of Oxford Why did Plato conclude the Republic, arguably his most celebrated work of political theory, with the Myth of Er, an obscure […]

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Analysis of Text-Analysis Syllabi: Building a Text-Analysis Syllabus Using Scaling

Analysis of Text-Analysis Syllabi: Building a Text-Analysis Syllabus Using Scaling By Nadjim Fréchet, Université de Montréal, Justin Savoie, University of Toronto, and Yannick Dufresne, Université Laval In the last decade, text-analytic methods have become a fundamental element of a political […]

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How Partisan Is Local Law Enforcement? Evidence from Sheriff Cooperation with Immigration Authorities

How Partisan Is Local Law Enforcement? Evidence from Sheriff Cooperation with Immigration Authorities By Daniel M. Thompson, Stanford University Is local law enforcement conducted differently based on the party in power? I offer an answer […]

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Can Economic Assistance Shape Combatant Support in Wartime? Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan

Can Economic Assistance Shape Combatant Support in Wartime? Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan By Jason Lyall,  Dartmouth College, Yang-Yang Zhou, University of British Columbia and Kosuke Imai, Harvard University Governments, militaries, and aid organizations all rely […]