American Political Science Review

1968 - 2026

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Volume 120, issue 3, 2026

How the Pro-Beijing Media Influences Voters: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment pp. _1

Jay C. Kao

Attitudinal and Behavioral Legacies of Wartime Violence: A Meta-Analysis pp. _10

Joan Barceló

Peace Dividends: Criminal Governance, Rational Violence, and Economic Development pp. _11

Bruno Pantaleão

Mapping the Political Contours of the Regulatory State: Dynamic Estimates of Agency Ideal Points pp. _12

Alex Acs

State-Building and Rebellion in the Run-Up to the French Revolution pp. _13

Michael Albertus and Victor Gay

Do Donors Punish Extremist Primary Nominees? Evidence from Congress and American State Legislatures pp. _14

Andrew C. W. Myers

Claimability in International Relations: Oil Discoveries, Territorial Claims, and Interstate Conflicts pp. _15

Kyosuke Kikuta

More than Symbols: The Effect of Symbolic Policies on Climate Policy Support pp. _16

Theodore Tallent, Malo Jan and Luis Sattelmayer

Consequences of the Black Sea Slave Trade: Long-Run Development in Eastern Europe pp. _17

Volha Charnysh and Ranjit Lall

When the Church Votes Left: How Progressive Bishops Supported the Workers’ Party in Brazil pp. _18

Guadalupe Tuñón

The Cornered Mouse: Sanctioned Elites and Authoritarian Realignment in the Japanese Legislature, 1936–1942 pp. _19

Makoto Fukumoto

Demand and Supply of Criminal Governance: Experimental Evidence from Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador pp. _2

Javier Osorio and Susan Brewer-Osorio

Publication of Replication Materials for “Political Cleavages within Industry: Firm-Level Lobbying for Trade Liberalization” pp. _20

In Song Kim

More than Money: The Political Consequences of Reparations pp. _3

Elsa Voytas

The Green Transition and Political Polarization Along Occupational Lines pp. _4

Vincent Heddesheimer, Hanno Hilbig and Erik Voeten

Democratic Deepening or Elite Persistence? How Local Elites Adapt to Electoral Reform in Rural India pp. _5

Alyssa R. Heinze

How Firms, Bureaucrats, and Ministries Benefit from the Revolving Door: Evidence from Japan pp. _6

Trevor Incerti

Race, Responsiveness, and Representation in U.S. Lawmaking pp. _7

G. Agustin Markarian, Jacob S. Hacker, Mackenzie Lockhart and Zoltan Hajnal

The Impact of Welfare on Intergroup Relations: Caste-Based Social Insurance and Social Integration in India pp. _8

Akshay Govind Dixit

Threats and Commitments: International Tribunals and Domestic Trials in Peace Negotiations pp. _9

Genevieve Bates

Volume 120, issue 2, 2026

Land, Power, and Property Rights: The Political Economy of Land Titling in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 399-418

Matthew K. Ribar

A Precolonial Paradox? Rethinking Political Centralization and Its Legacies pp. 419-438

Martha Wilfahrt

Smoke and Mirrors: Strategic Messaging and the Politics of Noncompliance pp. 439-457

Julia C. Morse and Tyler Pratt

Institutional Recognition: Activating Representation to Build Police Responsiveness to Women pp. 458-476

Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner, Akshay Mangla and Sandip Sukhtankar

A Critical Phenomenology of Racialized Vulnerability: Judith Butler and the Rodney King Trial pp. 477-489

Ayten Gündoğdu

Jean Bodin’s Demonic Constitutionalism: Sovereignty, Natural Law, and Political Theology pp. 490-503

Eero Arum and Gio Maria Tessarolo

State Legitimacy and Sector-Level Claim-Making: Evidence from East Jerusalem pp. 504-526

Hannah E. Bagdanov

Hidden Majoritarianism and Women’s Career Progression in Proportional Representation Systems pp. 527-545

Daniel M. Smith, Alexandra Cirone, Dawn L. Teele, Gary W. Cox and Jon Fiva

Storm from the Steppes: Warfare and Succession Institutions in Pre-Modern Eurasia, 1000–1799 CE pp. 546-563

Daniel Steven Smith

How Partisan Are U.S. Local Elections? Evidence from 2020 Cast Vote Records pp. 564-581

Aleksandra Conevska, Shigeo Hirano, Shiro Kuriwaki, Jeffrey B. Lewis, Can Mutlu and James M. Snyder

The Political Transformation of Corporate America, 2001–2022 pp. 582-598

Reilly S. Steel

What Happens When You Can’t Check the Box? Categorization Threat and Public Opinion among Middle Eastern and North African Americans pp. 599-623

D’urso, Amanda Sahar

The Path of Law: Legal Uncertainty and Issues of First Impression in the U.S. Courts of Appeals pp. 624-640

Anthony R. Taboni

Lights, Camera, Inaction? The Effects of Gavel-to-Gavel Floor Coverage on U.S. State Legislatures pp. 641-661

Jeffrey Lyons and Josh M. Ryan

Racial Inequality in War pp. 662-680

Connor Huff, Eric Min and Robert Schub

Political Symbols and Social Order: Confederate Monuments and Performative Violence in the Post-Reconstruction U.S. South pp. 681-706

Lee-Or Ankori-Karlinsky

Race, Democracy, and Public Support for War pp. 707-724

Michael Tomz and Jessica L. P. Weeks

Countering Misinformation Early: Evidence from a Classroom-Based Field Experiment in India pp. 725-745

Priyadarshi Amar, Sumitra Badrinathan, Simon Chauchard and Florian Sichart

Citizenship Renunciation without Emigration pp. 746-758

Lior Erez

Performative Violence and the Spectacular Debut of the Atomic Bomb pp. 759-778

Joshua Byun and Austin Carson

Institutional Forbearance as a Mechanism of Democratic Stability pp. 779-791

Sean Ingham

Performative Violence and the Spectacular Debut of the Atomic Bomb – ADDENDUM pp. 792-792

Joshua Byun and Austin Carson

Ideology and Revolution in Civil Wars: The “Marxist Paradox” –CORRIGENDUM pp. 793-794

Laia Balcells and Stathis N. Kalyvas

Volume 120, issue 1, 2026

Black Troops, White Rage, and Political Violence in the Postbellum American South pp. 1-20

Joshua Byun and Hyunku Kwon

Voting in Authoritarian Elections pp. 21-36

Turkuler Isiksel and Thomas B. Pepinsky

The Train Wrecks of Modernization: Railway Construction and Separatist Mobilization in Europe pp. 37-54

Yannick I. Pengl, Carl Müller-Crepon, Roberto Valli, Lars-Erik Cederman and Luc Girardin

Domestic Institutions, Geographic Concentration, and Agricultural Liberalization pp. 55-71

In Song Kim, Megumi Naoi and Tomoya Sasaki

Partisan Leaning pp. 72-91

Zuheir Desai, Anderson Frey and Scott A. Tyson

Plutopopulism: Wealth and Trump’s Financial Base pp. 92-109

Sean Kates, Eric Manning, Tali Mendelberg and Omar Wasow

How Cases Speak to One Another: Using Translation to Rethink Generalization in Political Science Research pp. 110-122

Erica S. Simmons and Nicholas Rush Smith

Electoral Gender Quotas and Democratic Legitimacy pp. 123-140

Amanda Clayton, O’brien, Diana Z. and Jennifer M. Piscopo

Ideology and Revolution in Civil Wars: The “Marxist Paradox” pp. 141-159

Laia Balcells and Stathis N. Kalyvas

A New Measure of Affective Polarization pp. 160-178

Nicolas Campos and Christopher Federico

Military Service and Immigrants’ Integration: Evidence from the Vietnam Draft Lotteries pp. 179-188

Nan Zhang and Melissa M. Lee

Unconditional Loyalty: The Survival of Minority Autocracies pp. 189-206

Salam Alsaadi

Press Coverage and Accountability in State Legislatures pp. 207-225

Andrew C. W. Myers

Family Ties, Social Control, and Authoritarian Distribution to Elites pp. 226-244

Antonella Bandiera, Horacio Larreguy and Jorge Mangonnet

Causal Panel Analysis under Parallel Trends: Lessons from a Large Reanalysis Study pp. 245-266

Albert Chiu, Xingchen Lan, Ziyi Liu and Yiqing Xu

War and Responsibility pp. 267-290

M. Patrick Hulme

Who Needs a Theory of Justice? Judith Shklar and the Politics of Injustice pp. 291-302

Robin Douglass

Marketing Taxation? Experimental Evidence on Enforcement and Bargaining in Malawian Markets pp. 303-318

Lucy Martin, Brigitte Seim, Simon Hoellerbauer and Luis A. Camacho

Resistance, Law, and the Limits of the Disobedience Framework pp. 319-331

Çi̇ğdem Çidam

Ecological Personhood: A Bridging Approach pp. 332-345

Mónica Brito Vieira and Sean Fleming

Why Inequalities Persist: Parties’ (Non)Responses to Economic Inequality, 1970–2020 pp. 346-364

Alexander Horn, Martin Haselmayer and K. Jonathan Klüser

“They Attend Strictly to Their Own Business”: Disability and the Construction of the Worker-Citizen pp. 365-380

Ann K. Heffernan

Mass Versus Donor Attitudes on the Importance of Supreme Court Nominations pp. 381-388

Brandice Canes-Wrone, Jonathan P. Kastellec and Nicolas Studen

Do Politicians Outside the United States Also Think Voters Are More Conservative than They Really Are? – CORRIGENDUM pp. 389-390

Jean-Benoit Pilet, Lior Sheffer, Luzia Helfer, Frederic Varone, Rens Vliegenthart and Stefaan Walgrave

Administrative Records Mask Racially Biased Policing—CORRIGENDUM pp. 391-391

Dean Knox, Will Lowe and Jonathan Mummolo