Political Science Research and Methods

2013 - 2026

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Volume 14, issue 2, 2026

Analyzing the impact of events through surveys: formalizing biases and introducing the dual randomized survey design pp. 255-275

Andrew Bertoli, Laura Jakli and Henry Pascoe

Beyond political connections: a measurement model approach to estimating firm-level political influence in 41 countries pp. 276-295

David C. Francis and Robert Kubinec

Challenger entry and electoral accountability pp. 296-314

Jacob Morrier

Climate regulation’s effects on businesses and public support for climate action pp. 315-335

Anil Menon, Katie Nissen and Iain Osgood

Out of order: specification check sequencing in Cox models pp. 336-352

Benjamin T. Jones and Shawna K. Metzger

Everything in moderation? The effect of extremist nominations on individual and corporate PAC fundraising pp. 353-369

Mellissa Meisels

Social segregation, inter-group contact, and discriminatory policing pp. 370-387

Ryan Hübert and Andrew T. Little

From cradle to congress: the effect of birthplace on legislative decision-making pp. 388-413

Colin Emrich, Hillary Style and Ryan J. Vander Wielen

Bayesian reasoning for qualitative replication analysis: Examples from climate politics pp. 414-429

Tasha Fairfield and Andrew Charman

Reassessing World Bank conditionality: beyond count measures pp. 430-450

Jacob Winter, Ben Cormier, Teresa Kramarz and Mark S. Manger

Improved LM test for robust model specification searches in covariance structure analysis: application in political science research pp. 451-471

Bang Quan Zheng and Peter M. Bentler

Measurement error when surveying issue positions: a MultiTrait MultiError approach pp. 472-489

Kim Backström, Alexandru Cernat, Rasmus Sirén and Peter Söderlund

Fiscal opportunity coupled with political willingness? Unpacking the effects of TELs and partisan governments on income inequality in the American states, 1986–2020 pp. 490-505

George A. Krause and Michelle L. Lofton

Economic evaluations and partisan faultfinding: when are respondents most likely to answer survey questions honestly? pp. 506-522

Jan Zilinsky and James Bisbee

Using contextual measures to capture citizens’ perception of inequality in their surrounding environment pp. 523-532

Benjamin J. Newman

Discounting extreme positions: party normalization and support for the far right pp. 533-541

Laia Balcells, Sergi Martínez and Ethan vanderWilden

The case for multiple UESDs and an application to migrant deaths in the Mediterranean Sea pp. 542-550

Joris Frese

Conservative bias in perceptions of public opinion among citizens: perceived social norms about abortion rights in post-Roe United States pp. 551-560

Giulia Fornaro

Volume 14, issue 1, 2026

Heroes and villains: motivated projection of political identities pp. 1-21

Stuart J. Turnbull-Dugarte and Markus Wagner

Measuring legislators’ ideological position in large chambers using pairwise-comparisons pp. 22-39

Christian Breunig and Benjamin Guinaudeau

Interactions among simultaneous elections pp. 40-52

Congyi Zhou

Are local policy attitudes distinct? pp. 53-70

Brian F. Schaffner, Jesse H. Rhodes and Raymond J. La Raja

Yellow peril or model minority? Measuring Janus-faced prejudice toward Asians in the United States pp. 71-86

D.G. Kim and Enze Han

Presenting the StanDat database on international standards: improving data accessibility on marginal topics pp. 87-105

Solveig Bjørkholt

Understanding the impact of the 2018 voter ID pilots on turnout at the London local elections: A synthetic difference-in-difference approach pp. 106-123

Tom Barton

Opportunistic rebel tactics in civil war: Evidence from Colombia pp. 124-142

Andres Uribe and Noah Schouela

Foreign aid, FDI and the personalization of power in autocracies pp. 143-159

Bernat Puertas and Abel Escribà-Folch

(When) are lobbying expenditures a good proxy for lobbying activity? pp. 160-167

Sebastian Thieme

Reward or punishment? The distribution of life-cycle returns to political office pp. 168-176

Jens Olav Dahlgaard, Frederik K. Kjøller and Nicolai Kristensen

Income, education, and policy priorities pp. 177-189

Chris Tausanovitch and Derek E. Holliday

Do external threats increase bipartisanship in the United States? An experimental test in the shadow of China's rise pp. 190-200

Eddy S. F. Yeung and Weifang Xu

Can autocratic power influence the media in democracies? Evidence from China's expulsion of American journalists pp. 201-212

Ruilin Lai

Criminal fragmentation in Mexico pp. 213-220

Jane Esberg

Reducing attrition in phone-based panel surveys: best practices and semi-automation for survey workflows pp. 221-230

Ala Alrababah, Marine Casalis, Daniel Masterson, Dominik Hangartner, Stefan Wehrli and Jeremy Weinstein

Decentralization and ideology pp. 231-239

Anna M. Wilke, Georgiy Syunyaev and Michael Ting

Does mainstream populism work? Populist rhetoric and the electoral fortunes of mainstream parties pp. 240-252

Markus Kollberg

When hearts meet minds: complementary effects of perspective-getting and information on refugee inclusion – ERRATUM pp. 253-253

Claire L. Adida, Adeline Lo, Melina Platas, Lauren Prather and Scott Williamson

Volume 13, issue 4, 2025

Survey sampling in the Global South using Facebook advertisements pp. 781-797

Leah R. Rosenzweig, Parrish Bergquist, Katherine Hoffmann Pham, Francesco Rampazzo and Matto Mildenberger

When hearts meet minds: complementary effects of perspective-getting and information on refugee inclusion pp. 798-814

Claire L. Adida, Adeline Lo, Melina Platas, Lauren Prather and Scott Williamson

Intra-ethnic divisions and disagreement over self-determination demands in ethnic movements pp. 815-831

Frederik Gremler, Manuel Vogt and Nils B. Weidmann

Multidimensional conflicts over disarmament and international security: analyzing speeches in the First Committee of the UN General Assembly pp. 832-849

Daniel Finke and Tobias Risse

Who decides who gets in? Diplomats, bureaucrats, and visa issuance pp. 850-864

David Lindsey

Access denied: how bureaucrats shape politicians’ incentives to choose restrictive asylum policies pp. 865-884

Moritz Marbach and Carlo M. Horz

(Mis)perception of party congruence and satisfaction with democracy pp. 885-902

Royce Carroll, Yen-Chieh Liao and Li Tang

Does vote buying undermine confidence in ballot secrecy? Theory and experimental evidence pp. 903-922

Sergio J. Ascencio and Han Il Chang

Linking datasets on organizations using half a billion open-collaborated records pp. 923-942

Brian Libgober and Connor T. Jerzak

ecolRxC: Ecological inference estimation of R × C tables using latent structure approaches pp. 943-961

Jose M. Pavía and Søren Risbjerg Thomsen

Are solidarity and identification as people of color distinct? Validating new measures across Asian, Black, Latino, and Multiracial Americans pp. 962-978

Efrén Pérez, Seth K. Goldman, Yuen J. Huo, Tatishe Nteta and Linda R. Tropp

Advocacy campaigns and gender bias in media coverage of elections pp. 979-993

Theresa Gessler, Fabrizio Gilardi and Maël Kubli

Competent legislators or mere pawns? Experimental evidence of attitudes toward gender quota politicians pp. 994-1007

Carolyn Barnett, Alexandra Blackman and Marwa Shalaby

Women on the ballot and women at the polls: how women's representation shapes voter turnout in local elections pp. 1008-1024

Emanuel Coman and Sarah Shair-Rosenfield

Europeans’ attitudes toward the EU following Russia's invasion of Ukraine pp. 1025-1030

Asli Unan and Heike Klüver

Facial finetuning: using pretrained image classification models to predict politicians’ success pp. 1031-1041

Asbjørn Lindholm, Christian Hjorth and Julian Schuessler

The national network of US state legislators on Twitter pp. 1042-1054

Ishita Gopal, Taegyoon Kim, Nitheesha Nakka, Frederick J. Boehmke, Jeffrey J. Harden and Bruce A. Desmarais

Differential efficacy of survey incentives across contexts: experimental evidence from Australia, India, and the United States pp. 1055-1064

Katharine Conn, Cecilia Hyunjung Mo and Bhumi Purohit

Survey sampling in the Global South using Facebook advertisements – CORRIGENDUM pp. 1065-1065

Leah R. Rosenzweig, Parrish Bergquist, Katherine Hoffmann Pham, Francesco Rampazzo and Matto Mildenberger

Volume 13, issue 3, 2025

Persistent unilateral action pp. 507-526

David Foster

How and when candidate race affects inferences about ideology and group favoritism pp. 527-544

Jennifer D. Wu and Gregory A. Huber

Campaign communication and legislative leadership pp. 545-566

Stefan Müller and Naofumi Fujimura

Inclusive meritocracy: ability and descriptive representation among Danish politicians pp. 567-590

Jens Olav Dahlgaard and Rasmus T. Pedersen

The effects of party labels on vote choice with realistic candidate differentiation pp. 591-610

Noam Titelman and Benjamin E. Lauderdale

Stance detection: a practical guide to classifying political beliefs in text pp. 611-628

Michael Burnham

Strengthening mainstream consensus? The effect of radical right populist parties on the defense policies of left parties pp. 629-644

Miku Matsunaga and Thomas Winzen

Polarization versus professionalism: military and civilian views on the domestic use of the military pp. 645-662

Kolby Hanson and Austin J. Knuppe

Estimating public opinion from surveys: the impact of including a “don't know” response option in policy preference questions pp. 663-679

Mads Andreas Elkjær and Christopher Wlezien

Boys, girls, and children: gender and question-wording in the measurement of authoritarianism pp. 680-701

David A.M. Peterson and Carrie Swartz

Two terms of endearment? Incumbent-party performance in US presidential elections pp. 702-714

John V. Kane

Congressional support for democratic norms on January 6th pp. 715-724

Alison Craig and Bethany Albertson

American partisans vastly under-estimate the diversity of other partisans’ policy attitudes pp. 725-735

Nicholas C. Dias, Yphtach Lelkes and Jacob Pearl

Quality of legislation and compliance: a natural language processing approach pp. 736-744

Moritz Osnabrügge and Matia Vannoni

Increasing intergovernmental coordination to fight crime: evidence from Mexico pp. 745-754

Marco Alcocer

Exposure to anti-refugee hate crimes and support for refugees in Germany pp. 755-764

Eroll Kuhn and Rahsaan Maxwell

Are pro-immigrant messages ineffective? Moralization as a rhetorical strategy for mainstream parties pp. 765-771

Kristina Bakkær Simonsen

Does interstate conflict affect attitudes towards domestic minorities? Evidence from India pp. 772-779

Christopher Clary, Sameer Lalwani, Niloufer Siddiqui and Neelanjan Sircar

Volume 13, issue 2, 2025

Trust in government and American public opinion toward foreign aid pp. 245-263

David Macdonald

How to train your stochastic parrot: large language models for political texts pp. 264-281

Joseph T. Ornstein, Elise N. Blasingame and Jake S. Truscott

Political communication in the real world: evidence from a natural experiment in Germany pp. 282-297

Armin Seimel

The political consequences of technological change that benefits low-skilled workers pp. 298-314

Henning Finseraas and Ole Henning Nyhus

How should we estimate inverse probability weights with possibly misspecified propensity score models? pp. 315-336

Hiroto Katsumata

Who cares? Measuring differences in preference intensity pp. 337-353

Charlotte Cavaillé, Daniel L. Chen and Karine Van der Straeten

Do the Bretton Woods Institutions promote economic transparency? pp. 354-372

James R. Hollyer, Xun Pang, B. Peter Rosendorff and James Raymond Vreeland

On the measurement of preference falsification using nonresponse rates pp. 373-391

Ammar Shamaileh

Partisan communication in two-stage elections: the effect of primaries on intra-campaign positional shifts in congressional elections pp. 392-411

Mike Cowburn and Marius Sältzer

Self-reported political ideology pp. 412-433

Eddy S.F. Yeung and Kai Quek

Do presidents favor co-partisan mayors in the allocation of federal grants? pp. 434-443

Heonuk Ha and Jeffery A. Jenkins

Local elections do not increase local news demand pp. 444-454

Joshua McCrain and Erik Peterson

The population ecology of interest groups and counter-mobilization: reproductive rights organizations in the United States, 1920–1985 pp. 455-464

Tristan M. Hightower

The making of the boy who cried wolf: fake news and media skepticism pp. 465-474

Myunghoon Kang and Greg Chih-Hsin Sheen

Subject to change: quantifying transformation in armed conflict actors at scale using text pp. 475-481

Margaret J. Foster

The policy basis of group sentiments pp. 482-488

Scott Clifford, Elizabeth Simas and JeongKyu Suh

Setting the tone: the diffusion of moral and moral-emotional appeals across political and public discourse pp. 489-496

Tobias Widmann and Kristina Bakkær Simonsen

A spatiotemporal analysis of NATO member states' defense spending: how much do allies actually free ride? pp. 497-504

Ringailė Kuokštytė and Vytautas Kuokštis

Do presidents favor co-partisan mayors in the allocation of federal grants? – ADDENDUM pp. 505-505

Heonuk Ha and Jeffery A. Jenkins

Volume 13, issue 1, 2025

The micro-task market for lemons: data quality on Amazon's Mechanical Turk pp. 1-20

Douglas J. Ahler, Carolyn E. Roush and Gaurav Sood

Is it worth door-knocking? Evidence from a United Kingdom-based Get Out The Vote (GOTV) field experiment on the effect of party leaflets and canvass visits on voter turnout pp. 21-35

Joshua Townsley

Leader-contingent sanctions as a cause of violent political conflict pp. 36-55

Yu Mei

A foot out the door: what drives bureaucratic exit into lobbying careers? pp. 56-75

Alexander Bolton and Joshua McCrain

Roll-call voting under random seating assignment pp. 76-95

David Darmofal, Charles J. Finocchiaro and Indridi H. Indridason

Political shocks and asset prices pp. 96-113

Daniel Carnahan and Sebastian Saiegh

Asian American Racial Threat and Support for Racially Discriminatory Policy pp. 114-131

Andrew Ifedapo Thompson

Must watch propaganda: the marginal treatment effect of foreign media among always-takers pp. 132-149

Robert Gulotty and Arthur Zeyang Yu

Civic associations, populism, and (un-)civic behavior: evidence from Germany pp. 150-166

Bogdan G. Popescu and Marlene Jugl

The American public's attitudes over how judges use legal principles to make decisions pp. 167-182

Albert H. Rivero and Andrew R. Stone

Compulsory civic duty and turnout: evidence from a natural experiment pp. 183-192

Joaquin Artes and Ignacio Jurado

The unsettled effect of physical height on political preferences pp. 193-202

Barry C. Burden, Pamela Herd and Donald P. Moynihan

How to improve the substantive interpretation of regression results when the dependent variable is logged pp. 203-211

Oliver Rittmann, Marcel Neunhoeffer and Thomas Gschwend

Affective polarization and the destabilization of core political values pp. 212-220

Trent Ollerenshaw

Survey mode and satisfaction with democracy pp. 221-228

Hamad Ejaz and Judd R. Thornton

Evaluating methods for examining the relative persuasiveness of policy arguments pp. 229-236

Jared McDonald and Michael J. Hanmer

Revisiting the evidence on thermostatic response to democratic change: degrees of democratic support or researcher degrees of freedom? pp. 237-243

Yue Hu, Yuehong Cassandra Tai and Frederick Solt

How to improve the substantive interpretation of regression results when the dependent variable is logged – ERRATUM pp. 244-244

Oliver Rittmann, Marcel Neunhoeffer and Thomas Gschwend