American Political Science Review

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 […]

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Conditional Enfranchisement: How Partisanship Determines Support for Noncitizen Voting Rights

Conditional Enfranchisement: How Partisanship Determines Support for Noncitizen Voting Rights By Hannah Alarian, University of Florida and Stephanie Zonszein, University of California, Berkeley Expanding suffrage is critical for democratic inclusion. In the United States, noncitizen […]

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How Local News Shapes Local Politics

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. This piece, written by Jack Wippell, covers the new article by Andrew C. […]

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Confronting Core Issues: A Critical Assessment of Attitude Polarization Using Tailored Experiments

Confronting Core Issues: A Critical Assessment of Attitude Polarization Using Tailored Experiments By Yamil Ricardo Velez and Patrick Liu, Columbia University A long-standing debate in political psychology considers whether individuals update their beliefs and attitudes […]