American Political Science Review

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Volume 106, issue 4, 2012

Notes from the Editors pp. iii-ix

Anonymous

Unemployment and the Democratic Electoral Advantage pp. 685-702

John R. Wright

How Words and Money Cultivate a Personal Vote: The Effect of Legislator Credit Claiming on Constituent Credit Allocation pp. 703-719

Justin Grimmer, Solomon Messing and Sean J. Westwood

Sources of Bias in Retrospective Decision Making: Experimental Evidence on Voters’ Limitations in Controlling Incumbents pp. 720-741

Gregory A. Huber, Seth J. Hill and Gabriel S. Lenz

Tying Your Enemy's Hands in Close Races: The Politics of Federal Transfers in Brazil pp. 742-761

Fernanda Brollo and Tommaso Nannicini

The Adverse Effects of Sunshine: A Field Experiment on Legislative Transparency in an Authoritarian Assembly pp. 762-786

Edmund Malesky, Paul Schuler and Anh Tran

Borrowed Power: Debt Finance and the Resort to Arms pp. 787-809

Branislav L. Slantchev

“Writing a Name in the Sky”: Rancière, Cavell, and the Possibility of Egalitarian Inscription pp. 810-826

Aletta J. Norval

Democracy's Dignity pp. 827-846

Josiah Ober

The Supreme Court's Many Median Justices pp. 847-866

Benjamin E. Lauderdale and Tom S. Clark

On the Demos and Its Kin: Nationalism, Democracy, and the Boundary Problem pp. 867-882

Arash Abizadeh

Does Combat Experience Foster Organizational Skill? Evidence from Ethnic Cleansing during the Partition of South Asia pp. 883-907

Saumitra Jha and Steven Wilkinson

Legislative Bargaining and the Dynamics of Public Investment pp. 908-909

Marco Battaglini, Salvatore Nunnari and Thomas R. Palfrey

Volume 106, issue 3, 2012

Notes from the Editors pp. iii-x

Anonymous

The Autocratic Legacy of Early Statehood pp. 471-494

Jacob Gerner Hariri

Inequality and Regime Change: Democratic Transitions and the Stability of Democratic Rule pp. 495-516

Stephan Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman

Putting Inequality in Its Place: Rural Consciousness and the Power of Perspective pp. 517-532

Katherine Cramer Walsh

Gender Inequality in Deliberative Participation pp. 533-547

Christopher F. Karpowitz, Tali Mendelberg and Lee Shaker

The Civic Origins of Progressive Policy Change: Combating Violence against Women in Global Perspective, 1975–2005 pp. 548-569

Mala Htun and S. Laurel Weldon

Crime Victimization and Political Participation pp. 570-587

Regina Bateson

Collective Action, Clientelism, and Connectivity pp. 588-606

Mahvish Shami

Competing for Liberty: The Republican Critique of Democracy pp. 607-621

Nadia Urbinati

Rule Creation in a Political Hierarchy pp. 622-643

Clifford J. Carrubba and Tom S. Clark

Socratic Method and Political Science pp. 644-660

Christopher Meckstroth

Benchmarking across Borders: Electoral Accountability and the Necessity of Comparison pp. 661-684

Mark Andreas Kayser and Michael Peress

Volume 106, issue 2, 2012

Notes from the Editors pp. iii-ix

Anonymous

Elite Competition, Religiosity, and Anti-Americanism in the Islamic World pp. 225-243

Lisa Blaydes and Drew A. Linzer

The Missionary Roots of Liberal Democracy pp. 244-274

Robert D. Woodberry

Between Polis and Empire: Aristotle's Politics pp. 275-293

Mary G. Dietz

Does the Leader's Ethnicity Matter? Ethnic Favoritism, Education, and Health in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 294-325

Raphael Franck and Ilia Rainer

Strongmen and Straw Men: Authoritarian Regimes and the Initiation of International Conflict pp. 326-347

Jessica L. Weeks

The Influence of Federal Spending on Presidential Elections pp. 348-366

Douglas L. Kriner and Andrew Reeves

Legislatures, Bureaucracies, and Distributive Spending pp. 367-385

Michael M. Ting

Insecure Alliances: Risk, Inequality, and Support for the Welfare State pp. 386-406

Philipp Rehm, Jacob S. Hacker and Mark Schlesinger

Legislative Bargaining and the Dynamics of Public Investment pp. 407-429

Marco Battaglini, Salvatore Nunnari and Thomas R. Palfrey

A Source of Bias in Public Opinion Stability pp. 430-454

James N. Druckman, Jordan Fein and Thomas J. Leeper

Another Realism: The Politics of Gandhian Nonviolence pp. 455-470

Karuna Mantena

Volume 106, issue 1, 2012

Notes from the Editors pp. v-xi

Anonymous

Candidate Genes and Political Behavior pp. 1-34

Evan Charney and William English

When Natural Experiments Are Neither Natural nor Experiments pp. 35-57

Jasjeet S. Sekhon and Rocio Titiunik

The Economic Origins of Democracy Reconsidered pp. 58-80

John R. Freeman and Dennis P. Quinn

Democracy, War, and Wealth: Lessons from Two Centuries of Inheritance Taxation pp. 81-102

Kenneth Scheve and David Stasavage

Electoral Business Cycles in OECD Countries pp. 103-122

Brandice Canes-Wrone and Jee-Kwang Park

Dynamic Government Performance: Honeymoons and Crises of Confidence pp. 123-145

Torun Dewan and David Myatt

The Perils of Unearned Foreign Income: Aid, Remittances, and Government Survival pp. 146-165

Faisal Z. Ahmed

Getting Ahead in the Communist Party: Explaining the Advancement of Central Committee Members in China pp. 166-187

Victor Shih, Christopher Adolph and Mingxing Liu

The People, Rhetoric, and Affect: On the Political Force of Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk pp. 188-203

Melvin L. Rogers

The European Court of Justice, State Noncompliance, and the Politics of Override pp. 204-213

Alec Stone Sweet and Thomas Brunell

Understanding the Role of the European Court of Justice in European Integration pp. 214-223

Clifford J. Carruba, Matthew Gabel and Charles Hankla

Volume 105, issue 4, 2011

Notes from the Editors pp. iii-ix

Anonymous

Searching for Good Policies pp. 643-662

Steven Callander

Expertise and Scale of Conflict: Governments as Advocates in American Indian Politics pp. 663-682

Laura E. Evans

Voting with Your Feet: Exit-based Empowerment in Democratic Theory pp. 683-701

Mark E. Warren

Governance and Prison Gangs pp. 702-716

David Skarbek

Politicizing Agency Spending Authority: Lessons from a Bush-era Scandal pp. 717-734

Sanford C. Gordon

Rethinking Culture: The Social Lineage Account pp. 735-749

Alan Patten

“From This Far Place”: On Justice and Absence pp. 750-764

W. James Booth

Unpacking the Black Box of Causality: Learning about Causal Mechanisms from Experimental and Observational Studies pp. 765-789

Kosuke Imai, Luke Keele, Dustin Tingley and Teppei Yamamoto

Newspapers and Parties: How Advertising Revenues Created an Independent Press pp. 790-808

Maria Petrova

Democracy, Development, and the International System pp. 809-828

Carles Boix

Collective Action with Uncertain Payoffs: Coordination, Public Signals, and Punishment Dilemmas pp. 829-851

Mehdi Shadmehr and Dan Bernhardt

Volume 105, issue 3, 2011

Notes from the Editors pp. iii-ix

Anonymous

The Cost of Empty Threats: A Penny, Not a Pound pp. 437-456

Jack Snyder and Erica D. Borghard

The Decider's Dilemma: Leader Culpability, War Outcomes, and Domestic Punishment pp. 457-477

Sarah E. Croco

Horizontal Inequalities and Ethnonationalist Civil War: A Global Comparison pp. 478-495

Lars-Erik Cederman, Nils B. Weidmann and Kristian Skrede Gleditsch

Elite Influence on Public Opinion in an Informed Electorate pp. 496-515

John G. Bullock

Deliberation with Evidence pp. 516-529

Jérôme Mathis

The Ideological Mapping of American Legislatures pp. 530-551

Boris Shor and Nolan McCARTY

Do Democracies Select More Educated Leaders? pp. 552-566

Timothy Besley and Marta Reynal-Querol

Patronage and Elections in U.S. States pp. 567-585

Olle Folke, Shigeo Hirano and James M. Snyder

Making Outsiders' Votes Count: Detecting Electoral Fraud through a Natural Experiment pp. 586-603

Kentaro Fukumoto and Yusaku Horiuchi

Intersectionality, Quotas, and Minority Women's Political Representation Worldwide pp. 604-620

Melanie M. Hughes

Clarifying the Concept of Representation pp. 621-630

Jane Mansbridge

The Concepts of Representation pp. 631-641

Andrew Rehfeld

Volume 105, issue 2, 2011

Notes from the Editors pp. iii-x

Anonymous

Caught in the Draft: The Effects of Vietnam Draft Lottery Status on Political Attitudes pp. 221-237

Robert S. Erikson and Laura Stoker

Jurisdiction Size and Local Democracy: Evidence on Internal Political Efficacy from Large-scale Municipal Reform pp. 238-258

David Lassen and Søren Serritzlew

Deliberation, Democracy, and the Rule of Reason in Aristotle's Politics pp. 259-274

James Lindley Wilson

Divide and Conquer or Divide and Concede: How Do States Respond to Internally Divided Separatists? pp. 275-297

Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham

Hobbes on the Causes of War: A Disagreement Theory pp. 298-315

Arash Abizadeh

The Structure of Inequality and the Politics of Redistribution pp. 316-336

Noam Lupu and Jonas Pontusson

Strategic Opposition and Government Cohesion in Westminster Democracies pp. 337-358

Torun Dewan and Arthur Spirling

Parties, Coalitions, and the Internal Organization of Legislatures pp. 359-380

Daniel Diermeier and Razvan Vlaicu

On Partisan Political Justification pp. 381-396

Jonathan White and Lea Ypi

Judicial Review as a Response to Political Posturing pp. 397-414

Justin Fox and Matthew C. Stephenson

Does International Law Promote the Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes? Evidence from the Study of Territorial Conflicts since 1945 pp. 415-436

Paul K. Huth, Sarah E. Croco and Benjamin J. Appel

Volume 105, issue 1, 2011

Notes from the Editors pp. iii-ix

Anonymous

Do Natural Resources Fuel Authoritarianism? A Reappraisal of the Resource Curse pp. 1-26

Stephen Haber and Victor Menaldo

The Tragedy of the Nomenklatura: Career Incentives and Political Radicalism during China's Great Leap Famine pp. 27-45

James Kung and Shuo Chen

Bribes, Lobbying, and Development pp. 46-63

Bård Harstad and Jakob Svensson

Is There a Trade-off between Security and Liberty? Executive Bias, Privacy Protections, and Terrorism Prevention pp. 64-78

Tiberiu Dragu

Competing on Good Politicians pp. 79-99

Vincenzo Galasso and Tommaso Nannicini

Toward a Mobilization Conception of Democratic Representation pp. 100-114

Lisa Disch

Turning Out to Vote: The Costs of Finding and Getting to the Polling Place pp. 115-134

Henry E. Brady and John E. McNulty

How Large and Long-lasting Are the Persuasive Effects of Televised Campaign Ads? Results from a Randomized Field Experiment pp. 135-150

Alan S. Gerber, James G. Gimpel, Donald P. Green and Daron R. Shaw

Parties, Pivots, and Policy: The Status Quo Test pp. 151-165

Jesse Richman

Costly Jobs: Trade-related Layoffs, Government Compensation, and Voting in U.S. Elections pp. 166-188

Yotam Margalit

Hobbes, Savagery, and International Anarchy pp. 189-204

Pat Moloney

Coercion and (Global) Justice pp. 205-220

Laura Valentini