American Political Science Review

American Political Science Review is political science’s premier scholarly research journal, providing peer-reviewed articles and review essays from subfields throughout the discipline. Additionally, PSNow features blog posts from political science graduate students in the APSA Public Scholarship Program who produce summaries of the latest research in the American Political Science Review.

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On the Rights of Warlords: Legitimate Authority and Basic Protection in War-Torn Societies

December 7, 2016 Comments Off on On the Rights of Warlords: Legitimate Authority and Basic Protection in War-Torn Societies

On the Rights of Warlords: Legitimate Authority and Basic Protection in War-Torn Societies Robert A. Blair, Brown University Pablo Kalmanovitz, Universidad de los Andes This article examines the legitimacy of the use of force by armed nonstate […]

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Collective Threat Framing and Mobilization in Civil War

December 1, 2016 Comments Off on Collective Threat Framing and Mobilization in Civil War

Collective Threat Framing and Mobilization in Civil War Anastasia Shesterinina, Yale University Research on civil war mobilization emphasizes armed group recruitment tactics and individual motivations to fight, but does not explore how individuals come to […]

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The Limits of Political Representation

September 19, 2016 Comments Off on The Limits of Political Representation

by Howard Schweber, University of Wisconsin-Madison Abstract: “A representation is always a selective and limited reproduction of the thing represented, an idea captured in the metaphor of a map. What is left out of a […]

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Party Policy Diffusion

September 13, 2016 Comments Off on Party Policy Diffusion

by Tobias Böhmelt ( ETH Zurich and University of Essex), Lawrence Ezrow (University of Essex), Roni Lehrer (University of Mannheim), and Hugh Ward (University of Essex) Abstract: “Do parties learn from or emulate parties in other […]

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Adam Smith on What Is Wrong with Economic Inequality

September 9, 2016 Comments Off on Adam Smith on What Is Wrong with Economic Inequality

by Dennis C. Rasmussen, Tufts University Abstract: “This article explores Adam Smith’s attitude toward economic inequality, as distinct from the problem of poverty, and argues that he regarded it as a double-edged sword. On the […]

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Presidential Influence in an Era of Congressional Dominance

September 8, 2016 Comments Off on Presidential Influence in an Era of Congressional Dominance

by Jon C. Rogowski, Washington University in St. Louis Abstract: “Research on presidential power focuses almost exclusively on the modern era, while earlier presidents are said to have held office while congressional dominance was at its […]