American Political Science Review

Explaining Rural Conservatism: Political Consequences of Technological Change in the Great Plains By Aditya Dasgupta, University of California, Merced; Elena Ramirez, University of California, Merced. Rural areas are conservative electoral strongholds in the United States and […]

Endogenous Colonial Borders: Precolonial States and Geography in the Partition of Africa By Jack Paine, Emory University; Xiaoyan Qiu, Washington University in St. Louis; Joan Ricart-Huguet, Loyola University Maryland We revise the conventional wisdom that Africa’s […]

Do the Effects of Unpopular Supreme Court Rulings Linger? The Dobbs Decision Rescinding Abortion Rights By James L. Gibson, Washington University in St. Louis. New evidence suggests that the world recently changed for the U.S. Supreme […]

Corruption and Co-Optation in Autocracy: Evidence from Russia By David Szakonyi, George Washington University. Do corrupt officials govern differently in elected office? This article develops a theoretical framework and analyzes new data from financial disclosures to […]

Willing but Unable: Reassessing the Relationship between Racial Group Consciousness and Black Political Participation By Jasmine Carrera Smith, George Washington University; Jared Clemons, Temple University; Arvind Krishnamurthy, University of California, Berkeley; Miguel Martinez, Duke University; Leann […]

A Turn Against Empire: Benito Juárez’s Liberal Rejoinder to the French Intervention in Mexico By Mai Hassan, MIT, Horacio Larreguy, ITAM and Stuart Russell, World Bank Most research on biased public sector hiring highlights local […]

Toxic Speech and Limited Demand for Content Moderation on Social Media By Franziska Pradel, Technical University of Munich; Jan Zilinsky, Technical University of Munich; Spyros Kosmidis, University of Oxford; Yannis Theocharis, Technical University of Munich. When […]