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Do the Effects of Unpopular Supreme Court Rulings Linger? The Dobbs Decision Rescinding Abortion Rights

Do the Effects of Unpopular Supreme Court Rulings Linger? The Dobbs Decision Rescinding Abortion Rights By James L. Gibson, Washington University in St. Louis. New evidence suggests that the world recently changed for the U.S. Supreme […]

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Corruption and Co-Optation in Autocracy: Evidence from Russia

Corruption and Co-Optation in Autocracy: Evidence from Russia By David Szakonyi, George Washington University. Do corrupt officials govern differently in elected office? This article develops a theoretical framework and analyzes new data from financial disclosures to […]

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Willing but Unable: Reassessing the Relationship between Racial Group Consciousness and Black Political Participation

Willing but Unable: Reassessing the Relationship between Racial Group Consciousness and Black Political Participation By Jasmine Carrera Smith, George Washington University; Jared Clemons, Temple University; Arvind Krishnamurthy, University of California, Berkeley; Miguel Martinez, Duke University; Leann […]

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Who Gets Hired? Political Patronage and Bureaucratic Favoritism

A Turn Against Empire: Benito Juárez’s Liberal Rejoinder to the French Intervention in Mexico By Mai Hassan, MIT, Horacio Larreguy, ITAM and Stuart Russell, World Bank Most research on biased public sector hiring highlights local […]

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Toxic Speech and Limited Demand for Content Moderation on Social Media

Toxic Speech and Limited Demand for Content Moderation on Social Media By Franziska Pradel, Technical University of Munich; Jan Zilinsky, Technical University of Munich; Spyros Kosmidis, University of Oxford; Yannis Theocharis, Technical University of Munich. When […]

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Fair Trade: Racial Preferences for Trade Policies

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 Sienna Nordquist, covers the new article by Daniel Lobo […]

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Social Media, Social Control, and the Politics of Public Shaming

Social Media, Social Control, and the Politics of Public Shaming By Jennifer Forestal, Loyola University Chicago. While there is disagreement over the value of public shaming, scholars largely agree that social media introduce pathologies. But while […]

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Selecting for Masculinity: Women’s Under-Representation in the Republican Party

Selecting for Masculinity: Women’s Under-Representation in the Republican Party By Christopher F. Karpowitz, Brigham Young University; J. Quin Monson, Brigham Young University; Jessica R. Preece, Brigham Young University; Alejandra Aldridge, Brigham Young University. The gap between […]