American Political Science Review

Do Government Benefits Affect Officeholders’ Electoral Fortunes? Evidence from State Earned Income Tax Credits By Hunter E. Rendleman, University of California Berkeley, and Jesse Yoder, Independent Researcher When do public policies influence citizens’ political attitudes and […]

Legitimize or Delegitimize? Mainstream Party Strategy toward (Former) Pariah Parties and How Voters Respond By Valentin Daur, LMU Munich Mainstream parties have often shifted from initially portraying new competitors as undemocratic pariahs (i.e., a delegitimizing […]

Racial Context(s) in American Political Behavior By Allison P. Anoll, Vanderbilt University, Lauren D. Davenport, Stanford University, and Rachel Lienesch, Vanderbilt University Since Key and Allport, scholars have argued that racial context affects political behavior, […]

Gendered Perceptions and the Costs of Political Toxicity: Experimental Evidence from Politicians and Citizens in Four Democracies By Gregory Eady, University of Copenhagen, and Anne Rasmussen, University of Copenhagen Politicians frequently face toxic behaviors. We […]

The Class Ceiling in Politics By Olle Folke, Uppsala University, and Johanna Rickne, Stockholm University Prior studies have documented that working-class individuals rarely become parliamentarians. We know less about when in the career pipeline to parliament workers […]

Traceability and Mass Policy Feedback Effects By Brian T. Hamel, University of North Texas Theory suggests that policy benefits delivered directly by government are most likely to affect the voting behavior of beneficiaries. Nearly every […]

A Turn Against Empire: Benito Juárez’s Liberal Rejoinder to the French Intervention in Mexico By Tom Long, University of Warwick and Carsten-Andreas Schulz, University of Cambridge In the mid-nineteenth century—even as many European liberals took […]