American Political Science Review

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 […]

Hot Politics? Affective Responses to Political Rhetoric By Bert N. Bakker, Gijs Schumacher and Matthijs Rooduijn, University of Amsterdam Canonical theories of opinion formation attribute an important role to affect. But how and for whom […]

Fundraising for Stigmatized Groups: A Text Message Donation Experiment By Katerina Linos, University of California, Berkeley, Laura Jakli, Harvard University and Melissa Carlson, Stanford University As government welfare programming contracts and NGOs increasingly assume core […]

Explanations of Institutional Change: Reflecting on a “Missing Diagonal” By Johannes Gerschewski, WZB Berlin Social Science Center Previous research on institutional change has concentrated on two types of explanations. On one hand, the dualism of […]

Emigrant Inclusion in Home Country Elections: Theory and Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa By Elizabeth Iams Wellman, Williams College and University of the Witwatersrand Since 1990, nearly 100 countries extended voting rights to citizens living abroad, […]

Electoral Accountability and Particularistic Legislation: Evidence from an Electoral Reform in Mexico By Lucia Motolinia, New York University Being able to hold politicians accountable is the hallmark of democracy, and central to this is the […]