American Political Science Review

“This Hearing Should Be Flipped”: Democratic Spectatorship, Social Media, and the Problem of Demagogic Candor By Boris Litvin, Stetson University How concerning should it be that most citizens encounter political life chiefly as audiences? Facing […]

“It’s Like Shouting to a Brick Wall”: Normative Whiteness and Racism in the European Parliament By Johanna Kantola, Anna Elomäki, Barbara Gaweda, Cherry Miller, Petra Ahrens and Valentine Berthet, Tampere University There is a notable […]

The Representational Consequences of Municipal Civil Service Reform By Nicholas Kuipers, University of California, Berkeley, and Alexander Sahn, Princeton University A prominent argument holds that the chief purpose of municipal civil service reform in the […]

The Politics of Police Data: State Legislative Capacity and the Transparency of State and Substate Agencies By Scott J. Cook, Texas A&M University, and David Fortunato, University of California, San Diego, United States, and Copenhagen […]

The Effect of Pregnancy on Engagement with Politics. Toward a Model of the Political Consequences of the Earliest Stages of Parenthood By Elin Naurin, University of Gothenburg, Dietlind Stolle, McGill University, and Elias Markstedt, University […]

The Effect of Gender on Interruptions at Congressional Hearings By Michael G. Miller, Barnard College, Columbia University, and Joseph L. Sutherland, Emory University Women in Congress are highly effective legislators. Yet, if women are more […]

Temporary Disenfranchisement: Negative Side Effects of Lowering the Voting Age By Arndt Leininger, Chemnitz University of Technology, Marie-Lou Sohnius, University of Mannheim, Thorsten Faas, Freie Universität Berlin, Sigrid Roßteutscher, Goethe University Frankfurt, and Armin Schäfer, […]

Survey Nonresponse and Mass Polarization: The Consequences of Declining Contact and Cooperation Rates By Amnon Cavari, Reichman University, and Guy Freedman, University of Texas at Austin Recent studies question whether declining response rates in survey […]