American Political Science Review

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 […]

By Yannick I. Pengl, ETH Zurich, Carl Müller-Crepon, London School of Economics and Political Science, Roberto Valli, Princeton University, Lars-Erik Cederman, ETH Zurich and Luc Girardin, ETH Zurich This paper uses the gradual expansion of the European railway […]

By Salam Alsaadi, University of Toronto Contrary to the conventional view that minority regimes are vulnerable to breakdown, many of these regimes exhibit remarkable durability. From 1900 to 2015, minority autocracies that exclude a single […]

By Turkuler Isiksel, Columbia University and Thomas B. Pepinsky, Cornell University Democratic theorists hold that voting contributes to some political good: individual and collective autonomy, equality, justice, pluralism, stability, better policies, and many others. But […]