American Political Science Review

Fake It ‘Til You Make It: A Natural Experiment to Identify European Politicians’ Benefit from Twitter Bots By Bruno Castanho Silva and Sven-Oliver Proksch, University of Cologne Social media giants stand accused of facilitating illegitimate […]

Women’s Descriptive Representation and Gendered Import Tax Discrimination By Timm Betz, Technical University of Munich, David Fortunato, University of California, San Diego and Diana Z. O’Brien, Rice University We identify a form of gender-based governmental […]

UN Peacekeeping and the Rule of Law By Robert A. Blair, Brown University The UN is intimately involved in efforts to restore the rule of law in conflict and postconflict settings. Yet despite the importance […]

The Wane of Command: Evidence on Drone Strikes and Control within Terrorist Organizations By Anouk S. Rigterink, Durham University This paper investigates how counterterrorism targeting terrorist leaders affects terrorist attacks. This effect is theoretically ambiguous […]

The Non-Democratic Roots of Mass Education: Evidence from 200 Years By Agustina S. Paglayan, University of California, San Diego Because primary education is often conceptualized as a pro-poor redistributive policy, a common argument is that […]