Social Science Quarterly

2001 - 2026

Current editor(s): Robert L. Lineberry

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Volume 107, issue 5, 2026

Overlooked and Undervalued: Gendered Prestige Hierarchies Among County Clerks

Ethan M. Bernick, Chardie L. Baird, Brianne Heidbreder and Andrew Navarro

The Shock That Stayed: The COVID Pandemic and Its Impact on Assessment

Zoe Bogan, Juntao Chi, Olivia Cutka, Gabe Codada, Janani Eswaran, Nathan Fang, Ralph David Fernando, Nick Foxworthy, Avalin Hess, Ranit Kar, Jennifer Karakash, Warren Kim, Violet Lamptey, Adam Longstreth, Sydney Machado, Riley Odier, Thomas Pigott, David Rasmussen, Sophia Richason, Faith Shands, David Tashjian, Ariana Wagner, Jianhan Yin and William Bianco

Examining the Dynamics Between Criminal Justice Campaign Messaging, News Coverage, Public Policy Mood, and Voter Participation in Judicial Elections

Hayley Munir, Marcy Shieh and Michael Catalano

Exposure to Crime and Perceptions of Crime in Major U.S. Cities

David Doherty, Mena Whalen, Emily Richter and Dana Garbarski

Understanding Translation and Cultural Meaning‐Making in Cross‐Language Qualitative Research: Methodological Innovations and Challenges

Momna Rani

Polarized by Education: Political Affiliation, Education, and Beliefs on the Free Market

Michael Ervin and Samuel H. Fishman

Who Deserves To Belong? Partisan News, Anti‐Immigrant Misinformation, Immigrant Deservingness, and Immigration Policy Preferences

Bixuan Ren, Nalae Hong and Lars Willnat

Measuring Judicial Legitimacy: Public Support for the Mexican Supreme Court, 1998–2024

Alejandro Díaz‐Domínguez

Distinctions Between the Morality and Legality of Abortion: Compartmentalized Versus Aligned Attitudes Across Political Affiliation and Abortion Identity

Ronna C. Turner, Kristen N. Jozkowski, Elizabeth E. McElroy and Brandon L. Crawford

State Child Tax Credits and Family Well‐Being: Early Evidence From Minnesota

Godwin Aipoh

Assimilation or Ethnic Revival? Immigration Attitudes, Immigrant Generation, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States

Ernesto F. L. Amaral and Masatoshi Kuniyoshi

Vote, Pray, and Fear: Politics, Religion, and Fear of Crime in Today's United States

Madeline Brock, Nicole E. Rader and Margaret Ralston

Political Ideology and Perceived Racial Discrimination Across Race Groups

Virginia K. Leiter, Eric Silver and John Iceland

The Price of Denial: Admission Status, Race, and Punishment Severity in Federal Supervision Revocation Hearings

Amos Malone

The Convergence of Zero‐Sum Thinking and Illiberalism in the United States

Jacob Morrier, Beatrice Magistro and R. Michael Alvarez

Constraint Push or Motivational Pull? Number of Children and Willingness to Bear Environmental Costs in the United States and South Korea

Jeeyoung Park and Kiyoung Chang

Balancing Growth and Impact: A Conjoint Analysis of Public Preferences for Data Center Policy

Fengxiu Zhang, Shuping Wang, Saba Siddiki, David W. S. Wong and Jie Xu

Beauty, Strategy, and Jury Votes: Physical Attractiveness and Winning in Survivor

Vojtěch Kotrba and Eliška Halamová

From Mainstream News to Prediction Markets: Dual Pathways of Information Seeking During an Anticipatory Security Crisis

Vered Elishar, Dana Weimann‐Saks and Yaron Ariel

Does Intergroup Contact Reduce Affective Polarization? A Natural Experiment

Dehua Sun

From Need to Belong to Social Media Envy: Parallel Mediation Through Entertainment and Reality Alteration

Manuel Goyanes and Briana M. Trifiro

Not all Policy Losses Are the Same: How Judge–Public Co‐Partisanship Shapes Public Perceptions of the Court following a Judicial Policy Loss

Nathan T. Carrington, Joseph Coll and Logan Strother

What Beliefs Are Central in the Climate Change Belief System Network?

Matthew C. Nowlin

Cultural Churches as Third Places and Relational Transitional Spaces Between Tradition and Innovation in Urban and Rural Areas

Maria Rammelmeier

Volume 107, issue 4, 2026

Extraversion, Gender, and the Perceived Pleasantness of Politics

Amanda Friesen, Isabella Rebasso, Jamie Hong Chow and Paul A. Djupe

Speaking the State: Linguistic Displacement and Political Support

Haofeng Ma and Jeongho Choi

When Authoritarian Regimes Provide Public Goods: Motivation and Capacity

Da Sul Kim

The Industrial Organization of Regulatory Capture

Neal D. Woods, Kenneth Aba and Spencer Baily

Come From Away: Internal Migration and Nativist Attitudes in Canada

Isabelle Côté and Didier Ruedin

What Moves Love? Skin‐Tone Discrimination in the Dating Market in Mexico

Claudia Josselyn Barranco‐Santamaria and Raymundo M. Campos‐Vazquez

Turnout Misreporting at the Intersection of Race and Immigration

Stephanie Chan

The Punitiveness of the Mass Public: Lessons From Exploratory Studies

Kevin J. Mullinix, Nathan Brophy, Robert J. Norris and Kyra Cornell

Clarkonomics Comes to the WNBA

E. Frank Stephenson

Volume 107, issue 3, 2026

Meeting Students Where They Are: A Field Experiment of Classroom Interventions for Voter Turnout Among College Students

Timothy Bynion and Jennifer Nicoll Victor

An Army for God: Gun Ownership, Christian Nationalism, and Support for Political Violence

Donald Haider‐Markel, Brooklyn Walker and Abigail Vegter

Placing Your Faith: The Religious Foundations of America's Urban–Rural Divide

James R. G. Kirk and Levi G. Allen

Hostile Campaign Rhetoric and Electoral Outcomes

Jack Banks and Daniel F. Stone

Chief Justices, Consensus, and Policy Cohesion: Examining How Chief Justices Marshal Their Courts

Drew Noble Lanier and Mark S. Hurwitz

Regional Disparities and Risk Factors in US Drinking Water Violations: Analyzing Trends From 2006 to 2020

Binita Mahato, Xi Chen, Steven McKnight, Nurun Naher, Xiaodan Zhang, Joseph Aistrup, Jonathan M. Fisk and John C. Morris

Can Donald Trump Shape the Outcome of Elections Abroad? Unraveling and Comparing the “Trump Effect” in the 2025 Canadian and Australian Federal Elections

Jean‐Nicolas Bordeleau, Rodrigo Praino and Daniel Stockemer

Rules for Thee, Not for Me: Mass Attitudes on Judge Shopping

Miles T. Armaly and Elizabeth A. Lane

Racial Boundaries and Religious Context: White Americans’ Opposition to Interracial Marriage With Asians

Fanhao Nie and Minsun Song

Has Political Violence Affected Americans’ Commitment to Democratic Participation? The Mitigating Role of Neighborhood Social Cohesion

James A. Piazza

Election Fraud in the American Mind

Mitchell Brown, Spencer Goidel, Soren Jordan, Bridgett A. King, Isaac Westfall and Ryan Williamson

Generational Shifts and Gendered Divides: Exploring Attitudes on Social, Cultural, and Political Issues in the United States

April K. Clark, Izabelle P. Chick, Juliet E. Carlisle and Eric R. A. N. Smith

Young Radical Response: Senators React to Trump Conviction

Maggie Macdonald and Annelise Russell

Judging Bias: How Sexual Orientation Cues Shape Perceptions of Judicial Impartiality Across Two Social Contexts

Matthew C. Dempsey and Joshua R. Thompson

When Politics Causes Panic: Political Anxiety as a Unique Form of Distress

Aaron Weinschenk and Kevin B. Smith

A Multi‐Study Assessment of Public Attitudes Toward Government's Role in Regulating Abortion Before and After the Dobbs v. Jackson Decision

Beyza E. Buyuker, Xiana Bueno, Carlin Hoffacker, Ronna C. Turner, Brandon L. Crawford, Wen‐Juo Lo and Kristen N. Jozkowski

The Legacy of Mobilization: Democratization Pathways and Protest Participation in Third‐Wave Democracies

Hyun‐Jin Cha

Money Can't Buy Me Love: Self‐Financing in Oklahoma State Legislative Races

Jamie N. Smith

Economic Development and the Environment: Revisiting Ecological Modernization Theory and the Environmental Kuznets Curve, 1990–2020

Steven A. Mejia

Volume 107, issue 2, 2026

Why Do White Supremacist Groups Re‐Emerge? The Case of the 1960s Ku Klux Klan

Trellace Marie Lawrimore

Voters’ Facial Expression Analysis as a Complement to Traditional Election Polls: Affective Voting in Spanish National Elections in 2023

Francisco Javier Otamendi, Lucía M. Guerras, Félix‐Fernando Muñoz and Eva Borrega‐Alonso

Evaluating Evidentiary Standards in the Realm of Citizen Policy Evaluation

Florian Justwan, Bert Baumgaertner, Markie McBrayer, Jacob Bindley, Alexa Benitez, Kira Haile and Bergen Kludt‐Painter

Marginal Food Security and Depressive Symptoms: NHANES 2009–2020

Aimee Imlay and Margaret Ralston

Protecting Children With More Guns?: The Effect of School Shootings on Parents' Gun Regulation Attitudes

Seungjoon Yoo

Partisanship, Trump Favorability, and Americans’ Evaluations of the FBI

Carly Watts and James C. Garand

Female Leadership and the Gendered Impacts of Financial Crises: Are Female‐Led Governments Better Able to “Weather the Storm?”

Shanshan Lian, Robert Blanton, Shannon Blanton and Dursun Peksen

The Politics of Presidential Pardons: Partisan Differences in Modern Clemency Decisions

Banks Miller, Brett Curry and Maureen Stobb

Pounding the Pavement: Field Experimental Evidence From a Persuasion Canvassing Study on Campaign Finance Reform Attitudes

Costas Panagopoulos, Jonathan Krasno, Kyle Endres, Philip Moniz and Michael Schwam‐Baird

Madness as Strategy? Leader Reputation and the Logic of Elite Purges in Autocracies

Taekbin Kim, John Ishiyama and Marijke Breuning

How the Question Shaped the Answer: A Randomized Field Experiment Examining Elicitation Formats and Inflation Perceptions

Puneet Vatsa

Identity and Wildfire Risk: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Climate Change Attitudes in Los Angeles

Adrian D. Pantoja, Sarah Allen Gershon, Samantha Gottsegen, Journey Lipscomb and Shayla Riley

Effects of News‐Bothers‐Me on News Media Use and Political Knowledge

Yonghwan Kim, Janggeun Lee and Harim Lee

Neutralizing Rape: Applying Sykes and Matza's Techniques to Rape Myths on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (SVU)

Gemini Alexis Creason‐Parker

Life‐Cycle and Generational Influences on Chinese Political Behavior and Attitudes: Age Matters, and so Does Context

Robert Harmel, Zhaoqing Li, Chen Shen and Yao‐Yuan Yeh

Understanding Responses to Global Terrorism: How Do Americans React to Terror and How Does It Impact Opinion on the Use of Force?

Neilan S. Chaturvedi and Tom Le

Heterogeneity in Public Understanding of the Causes of Inflation in the United Kingdom and the United States

Shaun Bowler and Simon Price

Abortion Attitudes in the Age of Trump: A Comparison of Latino and White Americans

Eric Hanley

The Crooked Pictures in Our Heads: Partisan Cable Coverage of Congress

Adam J. Schiffer

Moral Intuitions and Support for Immigration

John Iceland, Eric Silver and Ibrahim Enes Atac

Understanding Climate Policy Support: Public Concern, Institutional Trust, and Political Ideology in the United States

Jeonghwa Yang, Hyunseok Hwang and Arnold Vedlitz

Informal Labor Markets After Disasters: Evidence From Rural and Urban Low‐Income Communities in Puerto Rico

Jose Caraballo‐Cueto

Volume 107, issue 1, 2026

Tweeting Advice and Consent?: How Congress Talks About Supreme Court Nominations and Legitimacy Online

Benjamin R. Burnley

Corporate Political Responsibility and Board Diversity in the United States: A Study of Demographic, Cognitive, and Gender Influences

Hamzeh Al Amosh

Citizen Voices Reshaping Politics: How Public Trust Shapes Party Polarization

Solbi Kim

Talent, Capital, and the FIFA World Cup: How Participation Affects Football Players’ Market Value

Zsolt Havran, Dániel Claro and Karolina Nessel

Framing Motives and Objectives: Which Frames Increase US Public Support for Defending Taiwan?

Chung‐li Wu and Alex Min‐Wei Lin