American Political Science Review

Whitman’s Undemocratic Vistas: Mortal Anxiety, National Glory, White Supremacy

Whitman’s Undemocratic Vistas: Mortal Anxiety, National Glory, White Supremacy By Jack Turner, University of Washington Walt Whitman’s Democratic Vistas (1871) has become a touchstone of democratic theory. Commentators of unusual ideological range uphold the book […]

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When Do Männerparteien Elect Women? Radical Right Populist Parties and Strategic Descriptive Representation

When Do Männerparteien Elect Women? Radical Right Populist Parties and Strategic Descriptive Representation By Ana Catalano Weeks, University of Bath, Bonnie M. Meguid, University of Rochester, Miki Caul Kittilson, Arizona State University and Hilde Coffé, […]

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Weak, Despotic, or Inclusive? How State Type Emerges from State versus Civil Society Competition

Weak, Despotic, or Inclusive? How State Type Emerges from State versus Civil Society Competition By Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and James A. Robinson, University of Chicago We develop a theory of the accumulation […]

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Singular vs. Plural: How Wars Shape Imagined Sovereignty

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. This piece, written by Karra McCray, covers the new article by Melissa Lee, […]

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Announcing Call for Editors: American Political Science Review

The American Political Science Association (APSA) invites applications for the editorship of American Political Science Review, with a term beginning on June 1, 2024.  APSR is one of the Association’s three flagship journals and, now […]