Month: March 2026

By Nicolas Campos, University of Minnesota, and Christopher Federico, University of Minnesota Affective polarization has emerged as an important construct in the literature on partisanship. However, most efforts to measure it have relied on simple […]

By Amanda Clayton, University of California, Berkeley, Diana Z. O’Brien, Washington University in St. Louis, and Jennifer M. Piscopo, Royal Holloway University of London Gender quotas are used to elect most of the world’s legislatures. […]

By Antonella Bandiera, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Horacio Larreguy, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, and Jorge Mangonnet, Vanderbilt University Authoritarian survival theories maintain that dictators distribute rents to elites who can control the masses. […]

By Erica S. Simmons, University of Wisconsin—Madison, and Nicholas Rush Smith, City University of New York—City College and the Graduate Center and University of Johannesburg Regardless of method, political scientists often seek to develop arguments […]

By Sean Kates, University of Pennsylvania, Eric Manning, Princeton University, Tali Mendelberg, Princeton University, and Omar Wasow, University of California, Berkeley Comparative scholarship suggests authoritarian candidates often rely on backing from the wealthy. The wealthy […]