American Political Science Review

Moving toward the Median: Compulsory Voting and Political Polarization

Moving toward the Median: Compulsory Voting and Political Polarization By Alexandra Oprea, University at Buffalo, Lucy Martin, University of North, Carolina at Chapel Hill, Geoffrey H. Brennan, Australian National University Should turning out to vote […]

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Meritocracy as Authoritarian Co-Optation: Political Selection and Upward Mobility in China

Meritocracy as Authoritarian Co-Optation: Political Selection and Upward Mobility in China By Hanzhang Liu, Pitzer College. Why does an authoritarian regime adopt meritocracy in its political selection? I argue that meritocracy can be used to co-opt […]

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In the Eye of the Storm: Hurricanes, Climate Migration, and Climate Attitudes

In the Eye of the Storm: Hurricanes, Climate Migration, and Climate Attitudes By Sabrina B. Arias, Princeton University; Christopher W. Blair, Princeton University. Climate disasters raise the salience of climate change’s negative consequences, including climate-induced migration. […]

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How Experiments Help Campaigns Persuade Voters: Evidence from a Large Archive of Campaigns’ Own Experiments

How Experiments Help Campaigns Persuade Voters: Evidence from a Large Archive of Campaigns’ Own Experiments By Luke Hewitt, Stanford University; David Broockman, University of California, Berkeley; Alexander Coppock, Yale University; Ben M. Tappin, Royal Holloway, University […]

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The Politics of Online Dating

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 Ewa Nizalowska, covers the new article by Elsa Kugelberg,University […]

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Domestic Distributional Roots of National Interest

Domestic Distributional Roots of National Interest By Soyoung Lee, Yale University and Duke University. What international issues become national interests worth fighting for, and why? Contrary to conventional wisdom, I argue that issues without clear economic […]