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Racial Context(s) in American Political Behavior

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, […]

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Gendered Perceptions and the Costs of Political Toxicity: Experimental Evidence from Politicians and Citizens in Four Democracies

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 […]

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JHU Political Scientist and APSA Member Dr. Hahrie Han receives the 2025 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship

This featured post includes excerpts from Johns Hopkins University and Dr. Hahrie Han’s website.  Hahrie Han is the Inaugural Director of the SNF Agora Institute, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Professor of Political Science, and Faculty Director […]

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The Class Ceiling in Politics

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 […]

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Traceability and Mass Policy Feedback Effects

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 […]

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A Turn Against Empire: Benito Juárez’s Liberal Rejoinder to the French Intervention in Mexico

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 […]

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Are Firms Gerrymandered?

Are Firms Gerrymandered? By Joaquín Artés, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Aaron R. Kaufman, New York University Abu Dhabi, Brian K. Richter, University of Chicago and Jeffrey F. Timmons, New York University Abu Dhabi We provide […]

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Bribes and Bombs: The Effect of Corruption on Terrorism

Bribes and Bombs: The Effect of Corruption on Terrorism By Daniel Meierrieks, WZB Berlin and Daniel Auer, Collegio Carlo Alberto We leverage plausibly exogenous variation in regional exposure to corruption to provide causal estimates of […]