American Political Science Review

The Two-Pronged Middle Class: The Old Bourgeoisie, New State-Engineered Middle Class, and Democratic Development By Tomila V. Lankina, London School of Economics and Political Science and Alexander Libman, Freie Universität Berlin We contribute to research […]

Whose News? Class-Biased Economic Reporting in the United States By Alan M. Jacobs, University of British Columbia, J. Scott Matthews, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Timothy Hicks, University College London and Eric Merkley, University of Toronto […]

“Send Back the Bloodstained Money”: Frederick Douglass on Tainted Gifts By Emma Saunders-Hastings, Ohio State University Institutions today face calls to return “tainted” donations from controversial donors like the Sackler family. Such critiques of “dirty […]

“Clocks Must Always Be Turned Back”: Brown v. Board of Education and the Racial Origins of Constitutional Originalism By Calvin Terbeek, University of Chicago The Republican Party has adopted constitutional “originalism” as its touchstone. Existing […]

Turnout and Amendment Four: Mobilizing Eligible Voters Close to Formerly Incarcerated Floridians By Kevin Morris, Brennan Center for Justice Recent scholarship shows that eligible voters in neighborhoods home to many arrested and incarcerated individuals vote […]

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 […]