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Recent Publications

Interpreting Politics: Situated Knowledge, India, and the Rudolph Legacy

John Echeverri-Gent

Interpreting Politics
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Comparative Public Budgeting: Global Perspectives on Taxing and Spending

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Comparative Public Budgeting
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When Groups Fall Apart: Identifying Transnational Polarization during the Arab Uprisings

Robert Kubinec

When Groups Fall Apart
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When Groups Fall Apart: Identifying Transnational Polarization during the Arab Uprisings

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When Groups Fall Apart
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Migrants as Engines of Financial Globalization: The Case of Global Banking

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Migrants as Engines of Financial Globalization
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What Socrates Says, and Does Not Say

George Klosko

What Socrates Says, and Does Not Say
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Universal Suffrage as Decolonization

Kevin Duong

Universal Suffrage as Decolonization
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Governmental Responses to Terrorism in Autocracies: Evidence from China

Philip Potter

Governmental Responses to Terrorism in Autocracies
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Governmental Responses to Terrorism in Autocracies: Evidence from China

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Governmental Responses to Terrorism in Autocracies
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Pandemics and Political Development: The Electoral Legacy of the Black Death in Germany

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Pandemics and Political Development
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Pandemics and Political Development: The Electoral Legacy of the Black Death in Germany

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Pandemics and Political Development
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Liberal States, Authoritarian Families: Childhood and Education in Early Modern Thought

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Liberal States, Authoritarian Families
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Great Expectations, Great Grievances: The Politics of Citizens’ Complaints in India

Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner

Great Expectations, Great Grievances: The Politics of Citizens’ Complaints in India
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Taiwan’s continued success requires economic diversification of products and markets

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Taiwan’s continued success requires economic diversification of products and markets
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Rethinking the Resource Curse

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Rethinking the Resource Curse
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It’s Not Just China: Population, Power Generation, Political Polarization, and Parochialism Are Also Long-term Threats to Taiwan’s Success and

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It’s Not Just China
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The Guise of Exceptionalism: Unmasking the National Narratives of Haiti and the United States

Robert Fatton, Jr.

The Guise of Exceptionalism
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Why Physical Barriers Backfire : How Immigration Enforcement Deters Return and Increases Asylum Applications

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Why Physical Barriers Backfire

2021
Why Physical Barriers Backfire : How Immigration Enforcement Deters Return and Increases Asylum Applications

Justin Schon

Why Physical Barriers Backfire

2021
Theorizing "Racial/Colonial Primitive Accumulation": Settler Colonialism, Slavery, and Racial Capitalism

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Theorizing "Racial/Colonial Primitive Accumulation": Settler Colonialism, Slavery, and Racial Capitalism
2021
Listening to Black Lives Matter: Racial Capitalism and the Critique of Neoliberalism

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Listening to Black Lives Matter: Racial Capitalism and the Critique of Neoliberalism
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Rosa Luxemburg and the Primitive Accumulation of Whiteness

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Rosa Luxemburg and the Primitive Accumulation of Whiteness
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Estimating and Using Individual Marginal Component Effects from Conjoint Experiments

Kirill Zhirkov

Estimating and Using Individual Marginal Component Effects from Conjoint Experiments
2021
Who Are “the Immigrants”? Beliefs about Immigrant Populations and Anti-Immigration Attitudes in the United States and Britain

Kirill Zhirkov

Who Are “the Immigrants”? Beliefs about Immigrant Populations and Anti-Immigration Attitudes in the United States and Britain
2021
Hume's ‘Idea of a Perfect Commonwealth’ and Scottish political thought of the 1790s

Danielle Charette

Hume's ‘Idea of a Perfect Commonwealth’ and Scottish political thought of the 1790s
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State–Society Synergy at COVID-19’s Invisible Front Lines

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State–Society Synergy at COVID-19’s Invisible Front Lines
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State–Society Synergy at COVID-19’s Invisible Front Lines

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State–Society Synergy at COVID-19’s Invisible Front Lines
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Two Emerging International Orders? China and the United States

John M. Owen, IV

Two Emerging International Orders? China and the United States
2021
An Open Collection of Political Science Research with OLS Models and Cross-Sectional Data

Joshua Alley

An Open Collection of Political Science Research with OLS Models and Cross-Sectional Data
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News Hole: The Demise of Local Journalism and Political Engagement

Jennifer Lawless

News Hole: The Demise of Local Journalism and Political Engagement
2021
Why Bad Policies Spread (and Good Ones Don't)

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Why Bad Policies Spread (and Good Ones Don't)
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"To Manipulate American English": Toni Morrison's Word-Work as a Practice of Freedom

Lawrie Balfour

"To Manipulate American English": Toni Morrison's Word-Work as a Practice of Freedom
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Two Emerging International Orders? China and the United States

John M. Owen, IV

Two Emerging International Orders? China and the United States
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The Contingent Effects of Sexism in Primary Elections

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The Contingent Effects of Sexism in Primary Elections
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Alliance Participation, Treaty Depth, and Military Spending.

Joshua Alley

Alliance Participation, Treaty Depth, and Military Spending.

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The Effects of Dehumanizing Language on Public Opinion Toward Federal and "For-Profit" Immigrant Detention

Amanda McCubbins

The Effects of Dehumanizing Language on Public Opinion Toward Federal and "For-Profit" Immigrant Detention
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Perceptions of Stereotypically Immigrant Groups as Darker-skinned and Politics of Immigration in the United States and Britain.

Kirill Zhirkov

Perceptions of Stereotypically Immigrant Groups as Darker-skinned and Politics of Immigration in the United States and Britain.

2021
Traditional Gender Attitudes, Nativism, and Support for the Radical Right

Olyvia Christley

Traditional Gender Attitudes, Nativism, and Support for the Radical Right
2021
A unique path of political development: The Confucian dialectic of domestic and international interaction in the history of the Communist Party of China

Brantly Womack

A unique path of political development: The Confucian dialectic of domestic and international interaction in the history of the Communist Party of China
2021
Political Legitimacy, Authoritarianism, and Climate Change

Ross Mittiga

Political Legitimacy, Authoritarianism, and Climate Change
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Small Money Donating as Democratic Politics

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Small Money Donating as Democratic Politics
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Emerging Technologies and International Stability

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Emerging Technologies and International Stability
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What Happened to the Vital Center?

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What Happened to the Vital Center?
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Get Out of the Way: Joe Biden, the U.S. Congress, and Executive-Centered Partisanship During the President’s First Year in Office

Nicholas Jacobs

Get Out of the Way: Joe Biden, the U.S. Congress, and Executive-Centered Partisanship During the President’s First Year in Office
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Get Out of the Way: Joe Biden, the U.S. Congress, and Executive-Centered Partisanship During the President’s First Year in Office

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Get Out of the Way: Joe Biden, the U.S. Congress, and Executive-Centered Partisanship During the President’s First Year in Office
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Freud Sous Les Tropiques

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Freud Sous Les Tropiques
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Violence: Introduction to the Special Issue

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Violence: Introduction to the Special Issue
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Systemic Inequality in the Discipline

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Systemic Inequality in the Discipline
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Liberal States, Authoritarian Families & Kids in a Liberal Democracy

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Liberal States, Authoritarian Families & Kids in a Liberal Democracy
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Heavy Hand by Gingerich

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A Heavy Hand or a Helping Hand? Information Provision and Citizen Preferences for Anti-Crime Policy in Panama
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Budget Breaker? The Financial Cost of US Military Alliances

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Budget Breaker? The Financial Cost of US Military Alliances
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Is the Pipeline of Women Running for Office Broken?
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Qualitative Causal Inference and Critical Junctures: The Problem of Backdoor Paths

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Qualitative Causal Inference and Critical Junctures: The Problem of Backdoor Paths
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Can Biden Prove That Democracy Works?

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Can Biden Prove That Democracy Works?
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Le potentiel de croissance du Parti québécois : L'envers du vote

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Le potentiel de croissance du Parti québécois : L'envers du vote
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CGU's Institutional Designs between 2001 and 2016

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CGU's Institutional Designs between 2001 and 2016
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Social Brokerage: Accountability and the Social Life of Information

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Social Brokerage: Accountability and the Social Life of Information
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Economic distress amidst political success: India’s economic policy under Modi, 2014-2019

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Economic distress amidst political success: India’s economic policy under Modi, 2014-2019
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Hostile Sexism, Benevolent Sexism, and American Elections

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Hostile Sexism, Benevolent Sexism, and American Elections
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Policing in Patriarchy: An experimental evaluation of reforms to improve police responsiveness to women in India

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Policing in Patriarchy: An experimental evaluation of reforms to improve police responsiveness to women in India
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Power Sharing and Authoritarian Stability: How Rebel Regimes Solve the Guardianship Dilemma

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Power Sharing and Authoritarian Stability: How Rebel Regimes Solve the Guardianship Dilemma
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State Building in Crisis Governance: Donald Trump and COVID-19

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State Building in Crisis Governance: Donald Trump and COVID-19
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Social Brokerage: Accountability and the Social Life of Information

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Social Brokerage: Accountability and the Social Life of Information
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Death and taxes in Machiavelli's Florentine state

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Death and taxes in Machiavelli's Florentine state
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The Myth of Ideological Polarization

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The Myth of Ideological Polarization
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The Origins and Consequences of Racialized Schemas about U.S. Parties
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