American Political Science Review

Agency Problems in Political Campaigns: Media Buying and Consulting by Gregory J. Martin, Emory University and Zachary Peskowitz, Emory University Political consultants play a major role in U.S. elections. Consultants make important choices on how to allocate […]

The Deliberative Sublime: Edmund Burke on Disruptive Speech and Imaginative Judgment by Rob Goodman, Columbia University Is there a case to be made for the value, amidst relatively settled institutions, of unsettling speech—speech characterized by excess, […]

Reading Between the Lines: Prediction of Political Violence Using Newspaper Text by Hannes Mueller, Institut d’Analisi Economica and Christopher Rauh, University of Montreal This article provides a new methodology to predict armed conflict by using newspaper text. […]

Can Social Contact Reduce Prejudice and Discrimination? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Nigeria by Alexandra Scacco, WZB Berlin Social Science Center and Shana S. Warren, New York University Can positive social contact between members of antagonistic […]

Policy Preferences and Policy Change: Dynamic Responsiveness in the American States, 1936–2014 by Devin Caughey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Christopher Warshaw, George Washington University What drives policy change in the American states? The full answer is […]

Elite Competition and State Capacity Development: Theory and Evidence from Post-Revolutionary Mexico by Francisco Garfias, University of California, San Diego How do states develop the ability to carry out public policies? To answer this question, I describe a […]

Businesspeople in Elected Office: Identifying Private Benefits from Firm-Level Returns by David Szakonyi, George Washington University Do businesspeople that win elected office use their positions to help their firms? Business leaders become politicians around the world, […]

Whither Parties? Hume on Partisanship and Political Legitimacy by Joel E. Landis, University of California, Davis Recent work in political theory shows a burgeoning interest in the nature and normative value of political parties, suggesting that parties […]