American Political Science Review

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 […]

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 […]