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.

American Political Science Review

Preventing and Responding to Dissent: The Observational Challenges of Explaining Strategic Repression

April 22, 2016 Comments Off on Preventing and Responding to Dissent: The Observational Challenges of Explaining Strategic Repression

Preventing and Responding to Dissent: The Observational Challenges of Explaining Strategic Repression Emily Hencken Ritter and Courtenay R. Conrad, University of California, Merced Although scholarly consensus suggests that dissent causes repression, the behaviors are endogenous: governments […]

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Deliver the Vote! Micromotives and Macrobehavior in Electoral Fraud

April 21, 2016 Comments Off on Deliver the Vote! Micromotives and Macrobehavior in Electoral Fraud

Deliver the Vote! Micromotives and Macrobehavior in Electoral Fraud Ashlea Rundlett, University of Illinois Most electoral fraud is not conducted centrally by incumbents but rather locally by a multitude of political operatives. How does an […]

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Can Employment Reduce Lawlessness and Rebellion?

April 19, 2016 Comments Off on Can Employment Reduce Lawlessness and Rebellion?

Can Employment Reduce Lawlessness and Rebellion? A Field Experiment with High-Risk Men in a Fragile State Christopher Blattman and Jeannie Annan States and aid agencies use employment programs to rehabilitate high-risk men in the belief that […]

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“A Black Sister to Massachusetts”: Latin America and the Fugitive Democratic Ethos of Frederick Douglass

December 21, 2015 Comments Off on “A Black Sister to Massachusetts”: Latin America and the Fugitive Democratic Ethos of Frederick Douglass

by Juliet Hooker The aim of this article is to read Frederick Douglass as a theorist of democracy. It explores the hemispheric dimensions of Douglass’ political thought, especially in relation to multiracial democracy. Douglass is generally […]