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The Politics of the Mundane By Roberto F. Carlos, University of Georgia Extensive research on political participation suggests that parental resources strongly predict participation. Other research indicates that salient political events can push individuals to […]

The Journey Home: Violence, Anchoring, and Refugee Decisions to Return By Faten Ghosn, University of Arizona, Tiffany S. Chu, Tucson Police Department, Miranda Simon, University of Essex, Alex Braithwaite, University of Arizona, Michael Frith, University […]

Studying Policy Design Quality in Comparative Perspective By Xavier Fernández-I-Marín, Christoph Knill and Yves Steinebach, LMU Munich This article is a first attempt to systematically examine policy design and its influence on policy effectiveness in […]

Social Origins of Dictatorships: Elite Networks and Political Transitions in Haiti By Suresh Naidu, Columbia University, James A. Robinson, University of Chicago and Lauren E. Young, University of California, Davis Existing theories of democratic reversals […]

Playing to the Gallery: Emotive Rhetoric in Parliaments By Moritz Osnabrügge, Durham University, Sara B. Hobolt, London School of Economics and Political Science and Toni Rodon, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Research has shown that emotions matter […]

Partisan Polarization Is the Primary Psychological Motivation behind Political Fake News Sharing on Twitter By Mathias Osmundsen, Alexander Bor, Peter Bjerregaard Vahlstrup, Anja Bechmann, Michael Bang Petersen, Aarhus University The rise of “fake news” is […]

Nonunitary Parties, Government Formation, and Gamson’s Law By Gary W. Cox, Stanford University Following the coalition literature highlighting intraparty politics (e.g., Giannetti and Benoit 2009; Laver 1999; Strøm 2003), I address the well-known “portfolio allocation […]