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Group Size and Protest Mobilization across Movements and Countermovements

Group Size and Protest Mobilization across Movements and Countermovements By Anselm Hager, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Lukas Hensel, Peking University, Johannes Hermle, University of California, Berkeley, and Christopher Roth, University of Cologne Many social movements face […]

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Electoral Responsiveness in Closed Autocracies: Evidence from Petitions in the former German Democratic Republic

Electoral Responsiveness in Closed Autocracies: Evidence from Petitions in the former German Democratic Republic By Hans Lueders, Stanford University Contested elections are usually seen as precondition for constituent responsiveness. By contrast, I show that even […]

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Changing In-Group Boundaries: The Effect of Immigration on Race Relations in the United States

Changing In-Group Boundaries: The Effect of Immigration on Race Relations in the United States By Vasiliki Fouka, Stanford University, and Marco Tabellini, Harvard Business School How do social group boundaries evolve? Does the appearance of […]

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Blood is Thicker Than Water: Elite Kinship Networks and State Building in Imperial China

Blood is Thicker Than Water: Elite Kinship Networks and State Building in Imperial China By Yuhua Wang, Harvard University A long tradition in social sciences scholarship has established that kinship-based institutions undermine state building. I […]

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Member Spotlight: Valeria Sinclair-Chapman, Purdue University

Valeria Sinclair-Chapman, Purdue University Professor, Political Science Faculty; Director, Center for Research on Diversity and Inclusion; Co-Editor, American Political Science Review APSA Member since 1991 Valeria Sinclair-Chapman is professor of political science at Purdue University. […]

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A Collection of Articles from Cambridge on Abortion Politics

In the wake of the United States Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overruled long-term precedents securing the right to choose abortion Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, […]