American Political Science Review

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 […]

Democracy and Depression: A Cross-National Study of Depressive Symptoms and Nonparticipation By Claudia Landwehr, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and Christopher Ojeda, University of Tennessee Depression is the most common mental health disorder. It has consequences […]

David Hume’s Balancing Act: The Political Discourses and the Sinews of War By Danielle Charette, University of Chicago Both champions and critics of “neorealism” in contemporary international relations misinterpret David Hume as an early spokesman […]

Citizens as Complicits: Distrust in Politicians and Biased Social Dissemination of Political Information By Troels Bøggild, Lene Aarøe and Michael Bang Petersen, Aarhus University Widespread distrust in politicians is often attributed to the way elites […]