American Political Science Review

State Development, Parity, and International Conflict by Douglas M. Gibler, University of Alabama This article explains the relationship between state capabilities and international conflict as a consequence of how, when, and where states enter the international […]

The Architecture of Political Spaces: Trolls, Digital Media, and Deweyan Democracy by Jennifer Forestal, Stockton University The problem of trolls exemplifies the challenges of building democratic communities in the digital environment of social media. Distinguishing trolls from […]

Voter Registration Costs and Disenfranchisement: Experimental Evidence from France by Céline Braconnier, Sciences Po Saint-Germain-University of Cergy-Pontoise, Jean-Yves Dormagen, Université de Montpellier & Vincent Pons, Harvard Business School A large-scale randomized experiment conducted during the 2012 French presidential and parliamentary […]

The Crisis of Party Democracy, Cognitive Mobilization, and the Case for Making Parties More Deliberative by Carlo Invernizzi-Accetti, City College of the City University of New York & FabioWolkenstein, Goethe University Frankfurt This paper develops a normative proposal for addressing […]

Colonization and Democracy: Tocqueville Reconsidered by Ewa Atanassow, Bard College Berlin What is the relationship between Tocqueville’ celebrated account of democracy, based on principles of social equality and popular sovereignty, and his advocacy of colonizing Algeria? […]