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

John Echeverri-Gent

Interpreting Politics
2021
Comparative Public Budgeting: Global Perspectives on Taxing and Spending

James D. Savage

Comparative Public Budgeting
2021
When Groups Fall Apart: Identifying Transnational Polarization during the Arab Uprisings

Robert Kubinec

When Groups Fall Apart
2021
When Groups Fall Apart: Identifying Transnational Polarization during the Arab Uprisings

John M. Owen, IV

When Groups Fall Apart
2021
Migrants as Engines of Financial Globalization: The Case of Global Banking

David Leblang

Migrants as Engines of Financial Globalization
2021
What Socrates Says, and Does Not Say

George Klosko

What Socrates Says, and Does Not Say
2021
Universal Suffrage as Decolonization

Kevin Duong

Universal Suffrage as Decolonization
2021
Governmental Responses to Terrorism in Autocracies: Evidence from China

Philip Potter

Governmental Responses to Terrorism in Autocracies
2021
Governmental Responses to Terrorism in Autocracies: Evidence from China

Chen Wang

Governmental Responses to Terrorism in Autocracies
2021
Pandemics and Political Development: The Electoral Legacy of the Black Death in Germany

Daniel Gingerich

Pandemics and Political Development
2021
Pandemics and Political Development: The Electoral Legacy of the Black Death in Germany

Jan Vogler

Pandemics and Political Development
2021
Liberal States, Authoritarian Families: Childhood and Education in Early Modern Thought

Rita Koganzon

Liberal States, Authoritarian Families
2021
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
2021
Taiwan’s continued success requires economic diversification of products and markets

Syaru Shirley Lin

Taiwan’s continued success requires economic diversification of products and markets
2021
Rethinking the Resource Curse

David Waldner

Rethinking the Resource Curse
2021
It’s Not Just China: Population, Power Generation, Political Polarization, and Parochialism Are Also Long-term Threats to Taiwan’s Success and

Syaru Shirley Lin

It’s Not Just China
2021
The Guise of Exceptionalism: Unmasking the National Narratives of Haiti and the United States

Robert Fatton, Jr.

The Guise of Exceptionalism
2021
Why Physical Barriers Backfire : How Immigration Enforcement Deters Return and Increases Asylum Applications

David Leblang

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

Siddhant Issar

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

Siddhant Issar

Listening to Black Lives Matter: Racial Capitalism and the Critique of Neoliberalism
2021
Rosa Luxemburg and the Primitive Accumulation of Whiteness

Siddhant Issar

Rosa Luxemburg and the Primitive Accumulation of Whiteness
2021
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
2021
State–Society Synergy at COVID-19’s Invisible Front Lines

Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner

State–Society Synergy at COVID-19’s Invisible Front Lines
2021
State–Society Synergy at COVID-19’s Invisible Front Lines

Dyuti Saunik

State–Society Synergy at COVID-19’s Invisible Front Lines
2021
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
2021
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)

Craig Volden

Why Bad Policies Spread (and Good Ones Don't)
2021
"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
2021
Two Emerging International Orders? China and the United States

John M. Owen, IV

Two Emerging International Orders? China and the United States
2021
The Contingent Effects of Sexism in Primary Elections

Jennifer Lawless

The Contingent Effects of Sexism in Primary Elections
2021
Alliance Participation, Treaty Depth, and Military Spending.

Joshua Alley

Alliance Participation, Treaty Depth, and Military Spending.

2021
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
2021
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
2021
Small Money Donating as Democratic Politics

Jennifer Rubenstein

Small Money Donating as Democratic Politics
2021
Emerging Technologies and International Stability

Todd Sechser

Emerging Technologies and International Stability
2021
What Happened to the Vital Center?

Sidney Milkis

What Happened to the Vital Center?
2022
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
2022
Get Out of the Way: Joe Biden, the U.S. Congress, and Executive-Centered Partisanship During the President’s First Year in Office

Sidney Milkis

Get Out of the Way: Joe Biden, the U.S. Congress, and Executive-Centered Partisanship During the President’s First Year in Office
2022
Freud Sous Les Tropiques

Kevin Duong

Freud Sous Les Tropiques
2021
Violence: Introduction to the Special Issue

Kevin Duong

Violence: Introduction to the Special Issue
2022
Systemic Inequality in the Discipline

Carol Mershon

Systemic Inequality in the Discipline
2022
Liberal States, Authoritarian Families & Kids in a Liberal Democracy

Rita Koganzon

Liberal States, Authoritarian Families & Kids in a Liberal Democracy
2022
Heavy Hand by Gingerich

Daniel Gingerich

A Heavy Hand or a Helping Hand? Information Provision and Citizen Preferences for Anti-Crime Policy in Panama
2022
Budget Breaker? The Financial Cost of US Military Alliances

Joshua Alley

Budget Breaker? The Financial Cost of US Military Alliances
2022

Janet Lawler

Is the Pipeline of Women Running for Office Broken?
2022
Qualitative Causal Inference and Critical Junctures: The Problem of Backdoor Paths

David Waldner

Qualitative Causal Inference and Critical Junctures: The Problem of Backdoor Paths
2022
Can Biden Prove That Democracy Works?

Luke Schumacher

Can Biden Prove That Democracy Works?
2022
Le potentiel de croissance du Parti québécois : L'envers du vote

Alexis Bibeau-Gagnon

Le potentiel de croissance du Parti québécois : L'envers du vote
2022
CGU's Institutional Designs between 2001 and 2016

Beatriz Silva da Costa

CGU's Institutional Designs between 2001 and 2016
2022
Social Brokerage: Accountability and the Social Life of Information

Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner

Social Brokerage: Accountability and the Social Life of Information
2022
Economic distress amidst political success: India’s economic policy under Modi, 2014-2019

John Echeverri-Gent

Economic distress amidst political success: India’s economic policy under Modi, 2014-2019
2021
Hostile Sexism, Benevolent Sexism, and American Elections

Nicholas J.G. Winter

Hostile Sexism, Benevolent Sexism, and American Elections
2022
Policing in Patriarchy: An experimental evaluation of reforms to improve police responsiveness to women in India

Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner

Policing in Patriarchy: An experimental evaluation of reforms to improve police responsiveness to women in India
2022
Power Sharing and Authoritarian Stability: How Rebel Regimes Solve the Guardianship Dilemma

Anne Meng

Power Sharing and Authoritarian Stability: How Rebel Regimes Solve the Guardianship Dilemma
2022
State Building in Crisis Governance: Donald Trump and COVID-19

Sidney Milkis

State Building in Crisis Governance: Donald Trump and COVID-19
2022
Social Brokerage: Accountability and the Social Life of Information

Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner

Social Brokerage: Accountability and the Social Life of Information
2022
Death and taxes in Machiavelli's Florentine state

Danielle Charette

Death and taxes in Machiavelli's Florentine state
2022
The Myth of Ideological Polarization

John M. Owen, IV

The Myth of Ideological Polarization
2022

Kirill Zhirkov

The Origins and Consequences of Racialized Schemas about U.S. Parties
2022

Leonard Schoppa

Taking Voice Seriously
2022

David Leblang

Labor Market Policy as Immigration Control: The Case of Temporary Protected Status
2022

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