American Political Science Review

The Conditions of Racial Violence in American Cities: A Developmental Synthesis* By Joel A. Lieske, University of Cincinnati This article analyzes the social and political conditions associated with the incidence of racial violence in a […]

Transparency, Protest, and Autocratic Instability By James R. Hollyer, University of Minnesota, B. Peter Rosendorff, New York University and James Raymond Vreeland, Georgetown University The collapse of autocratic regimes is often brought about through large-scale […]

Racial Differences in Protest Participation By Peter K. Eisinger, University of Wisconsin, Madison Understanding of the phenomenon of political protest has been inhibited by the view that protest is fundamentally extraordinary or unconventional in character […]

Selling Out?: The Politics of Navigating Conflicts between Racial Group Interest and Self-interest By Ismail K. White, George Washington University, Chryl N. Laird, Saint Louis University and Troy D. Allen, Southern University-Baton Rouge Departing from […]

Racial Threat and Partisan Identification By Micheal W. Giles and Kaenan Hertz , Emory University Over the past three decades, as the Democratic party in the South has come to depend more heavily on black […]

Beyond Black and White: Biracial Attitudes in Contemporary U.S. Politics By Lauren D. Davenport, Stanford University The 2000 U.S. census was the first in which respondents were permitted to self-identify with more than one race. […]

Administrative Records Mask Racially Biased Policing By Dean Knox, Princeton University and Will Lowe, Hertie School of Governance and Jonathan Mummolo, Princeton University Researchers often lack the necessary data to credibly estimate racial discrimination in […]

Agenda Seeding: How 1960s Black Protests Moved Elites, Public Opinion and Voting By Omar Wasow, Princeton University How do stigmatized minorities advance agendas when confronted with hostile majorities? Elite theories of influence posit marginal groups […]