American Political Science Review

“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 […]

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 […]