American Political Science Review

Seniority-Based Nominations and Political Careers By Alexandra Cirone, Cornell University, Gary W. Cox, Stanford University and Jon H. Fiva, BI Norwegian Business School This paper investigates party use of seniority systems to allocate nominations for […]

Reconciling the Theoretical and Empirical Study of International Norms: A New Approach to Measurement By Tyler Girard, The University of Western Ontario Despite extensive research on international norms, our approach to measurement has not kept […]

Political Advertising Online and Offline By Erika Franklin Fowler, Wesleyan University, Michael M. Franz, Bowdoin College, Gregory J. Martin, Stanford University, Zachary Peskowitz, Emory University and Travis N. Ridout, Washington State University Despite the rapid […]

Overcoming History Through Exit or Integration: Deep-Rooted Sources of Support for the European Union By Kai Gehring, University of Zurich and CESifo The origins of voter preferences about the vertical distribution of political power in […]

Minimal Secularism: Lessons for, and from, India By Cécile Laborde, University of Oxford Does liberal democracy require a strict separation between state and religion? In Anglophone liberal political theory, the separationist model of the First […]

Measuring the Significance of Policy Outputs with Positive Unlabeled Learning By Radoslaw Zubek, Abhishek Dasgupta and David Doyle, University of Oxford Identifying important policy outputs has long been of interest to political scientists. In this […]

Local News, Information, and the Nationalization of U.S. Elections By Daniel J. Moskowitz, University of Chicago Has the decline in traditional sources of local news contributed to the nationalization of U.S. elections? I hypothesize that […]

Idiosyncratic Information and Vague Communication By Takakazu Honryo, Doshisha University and Makoto Yano, Kyoto University This study explores why, at critical moments, governments may withhold vital information from the public. We explain this phenomenon by […]