American Political Science Review

Economic Development, Mobility, and Political Discontent: An Experimental Test of Tocqueville’s Thesis in Pakistan by Andrew Healy, Loyola Marymount University, Katrina Kosec, International Food Policy Research Institute, Cecilia Hyunjung Mo, Vanderbilt University We consider the thesis of Alexis de […]

Electoral Accountability for State Legislative Roll-Calls and Ideological Representation By Steven Rogers, Saint Louis University State legislatures have considerable authority over American’s lives.  Legislators determine who has the opportunity to vote, go to college, and even get […]

Between Means and Ends: Reconstructing Coercion in Dewey’s Democratic Theory by Alexander Livingston, Cornell University John Dewey’s democratic theory is celebrated as a classic statement of the theory of deliberative democracy. This article challenges deliberative appropriations […]

Foreigners as Liberators: Education and Cultural Diversity in Plato’s Menexenus Rebecca LeMoine, Florida Atlantic University Though in recent decades many democratic governments have adopted rhetoric and policies promoting cultural diversity, political leaders, citizens, and scholars […]

Process or Candidate: The International Community and the Demand for Electoral Integrity by Johannes Bubeck, University of Mannheim, and Nikolay Marinov, University of Mannheim Rumored Russian support for candidates in U.S. elections has a long history, […]

Montesquieu’s Teaching on the Dangers of Extreme Corrections: Japan, the Catholic Inquisition, and Moderation in The Spirit of the Laws by Nathaniel Gilmore, University of Toronto, Vickie B. Sullivan, Tufts University Explicitly and implicitly in […]