British Journal of Political Science

1971 - 2025

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Volume 55, month January, 2025

Educating for Democracy? Going to College Increases Political Participation pp. -

Andreas Videbæk Jensen

A Crisis of Political Trust? Global Trends in Institutional Trust from 1958 to 2019 pp. -

Viktor Valgarðsson, Will Jennings, Gerry Stoker, Hannah Bunting, Daniel Devine, Lawrence McKay and Andrew Klassen

Can Official Messaging on Trust in Elections Break Through Partisan Polarization? pp. -

Jennifer Gaudette, Seth J. Hill, Thad Kousser, Mackenzie Lockhart and Mindy Romero

The Effects of Interactive Requests on the Quantity and Quality of Survey Responses: An International Methodological Experiment pp. -

Farsan Ghassim

Studying Multi-Level Systems with Cross-Level Data: Introducing Three Integrated Datasets pp. -

Leonce Röth, Daniel Saldivia Gonzatti, Lea Kaftan and André Kaiser

Party Behaviour and the Gender Voting Gap pp. -

Gonzalo Di Landro

Examining Voting Spillover Effects of Text Message Reminders pp. -

Karl-Oskar Lindgren, Pär Nyman and Sven Oskarsson

Do Voters Pay Attention to Transnational Politics? Party Positions, Transnational Families, and Voter Perceptions pp. -

Jeffrey Nonnemacher

Multidimensional Party Polarization in Europe: Cross-Cutting Divides and Effective Dimensionality pp. -

Jelle Koedam, Garret Binding and Marco R. Steenbergen

Do Citizens Stereotype Muslims as an Illiberal Bogeyman? Evidence from a Double-List Experiment pp. -

Stuart J. Turnbull-Dugarte, Alberto López Ortega and Michael Hunklinger

Children as Public Goods: At What Cost? pp. -

Liam Shields

Fixing the Past: The Effects of Human Rights Trials on Political Attitudes in Argentina pp. -

Pearce Edwards, Jennifer Gandhi and Donald Grasse

The Global Legislators Database: Characteristics of National Legislators in the World’s Democracies pp. -

Nicholas Carnes, Joshua Ferrer, Miriam Golden, Esme Lillywhite, Noam Lupu and Eugenia Nazrullaeva

Colonial Mapmaking, Ethnic Identity, and Traditional Authority in Africa pp. -

Christian Houle and Jeffrey Conroy-Krutz

Crowded Out: The Influence of Mental Load Priming on Intentions to Participate in Public Life pp. -

Anna Helgøy and Ana Catalano Weeks

Does the Presence or Absence of Elections Remove Gender Differences in Ambition for Public Service? pp. -

Hans J.G. Hassell, Gary E. Hollibaugh and Matthew R. Miles

The Group-Basis of Political Behaviour among Minoritized Communities: The Case of LGBTQ+ Linked Fate and Sexual and Gender Minorities pp. -

Nathan K. Chan and Gabriele Magni

Who’s to Blame? Post-conflict Violence, Political Messaging, and Attitudes Towards Peace Agreements pp. -

Frank Wyer

Substantive Representation of Women: Empirical Evidence pp. -

Yves Kläy, Reiner Eichenberger, Marco Portmann and David Stadelmann

When Do Political Parties Moralize?: A Cross-National Study of the Use of Moral Language in Political Communication on Immigration pp. -

Kristina Bakkær Simonsen and Tobias Widmann

Partisanship and Trust in Personal Doctors: Causes and Consequences pp. -

O’Brian, Neil A. and Thomas Bradley Kent

Benchmarking pandemic response: How the UK’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout impacted diffuse and specific support for the EU pp. -

Irene Rodríguez, Toni Rodon, Asli Unan, Lisa Herbig, Heike Klüver and Theresa Kuhn

Behind the Throne: Regime support coalitions around the world, 1789-2020 pp. -

Carl Henrik Knutsen, Sirianne Dahlum, Magnus B Rasmussen and Tore Wig

Absence: Electoral Cycles and Teacher Absenteeism in India pp. -

Emmerich Davies

The Demand Side of Democratic Backsliding: How Divergent Understandings of Democracy Shape Political Choice pp. -

Natasha Wunsch, Marc S. Jacob and Laurenz Derksen

Working For Democracy: Poll Officers and the Turnout Gender Gap pp. -

Pau Vall-Prat and Toni Rodon

Mobile Internet and the Quality of Elections in Low-Income Democracies pp. -

Alex Yeandle

Living in Different Worlds: Electoral Authoritarianism and Partisan Gaps in Perceptions of Electoral Integrity pp. -

Paula Windecker, Ioannis Vergioglou and Marc S. Jacob

Is It Still the Economy? Economic Voting in Polarized Politics pp. -

Thiago M. Q. Moreira

Deliberation and Human Nature pp. -

Ramon van der Does

Explaining peace during long and rapid power shifts: A theory of grand bargains pp. -

Mathias O. Frendem, Michael F. Joseph and William Spaniel

International Border Restrictions During COVID-19 as Global Health Security Theatre pp. -

Catherine Z. Worsnop

News Cycles and Satisfaction With Democracy: How the Pandemic Short-Circuited Media Polarization pp. -

Omar Hammoud-Gallego, Roberto S. Foa and Xavier Romero-Vidal

Do Political Leaders Understand Public Opinion Better than Backbenchers? pp. -

Stefaan Walgrave, Julie Sevenans, Frédéric Varone, Lior Sheffer and Christian Breunig

The Impact of Values on Issue Stances: Evidence from Panel Studies pp. -

Arjun Vishwanath

Call Me By Your Name: The Impacts of American Human Rights Violations in Authoritarian States pp. -

Jamie J. Gruffydd-Jones

Strategies of a Rising Power: Chinese Economic Influence in Regional International Organizations pp. -

Alicia R. Chen

How Parliamentarism Developed in Western Europe pp. -

Simon Davidsson

Ignoring Women’s Performance: A Survey Experiment on Policy Implementation in Argentina pp. -

Gustavo Diaz, Virginia Oliveros, Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro and Matthew S. Winters

When Reelection Increases Party Unity: Evidence from Parties in Mexico pp. -

Lucia Motolinia

The Islamist Advantage: The Religious Infrastructure of Electoral Victory pp. -

Sharan Grewal

More Turnover, Less Turnout? Domestic Migration and Political Participation Across Communities pp. -

Giuliana Pardelli and Alexander Kustov

Informed or Overwhelmed? Disentangling the Effects of Cognitive Ability and Information on Public Opinion pp. -

Adam R. Panish

The Gendered Cost of Politics pp. -

Frederik Klaaborg Kjøller and Lene Holm Pedersen

The Spillover of the US Capitol Insurrection: Reducing Expressed Support for Domestic Far-Right Parties pp. -

Ka Ming Chan

Who Counts? Non-Citizen Residents, Spatial Sorting, and Malapportionment pp. -

André Walter and Patrick Emmenegger

Evidence Can Change Partisan Minds but Less So in Hostile Contexts pp. -

Jin Woo Kim

Do Extreme Weather Events Increase Public Concern, Knowledge, and Attention to Climate Change in China? pp. -

Xun Cao and Zheng Su

Information, Uncertainty, and Public Support for Brinkmanship During the 2023 Debt Limit Negotiations pp. -

Matthew DiGiuseppe and Patrick E. Shea

Volume 54, month October, 2024

Compensation and Tax Fairness: Evidence From Four Countries pp. 1023-1042

Mariana Alvarado

The Enforcement of Political Norms pp. 1043-1066

Amalia Alvarez-Benjumea and Vicente Valentim

Mind the Gap: Why Wealthy Voters Support Brexit pp. 1067-1087

Jane Green and Raluca L. Pahontu

In the Shadows of Great Men: Retired Leaders and Informal Power Constraints in Autocracies pp. 1088-1114

Junyan Jiang, Tianyang Xi and Haojun Xie

Which Information Do Politicians Pay Attention To? Evidence from a Field Experiment and Interviews pp. 1115-1132

Roman Senninger and Henrik B. Seeberg

How Local Context Affects Populist Radical Right Support: A Cross-National Investigation Into Mediated and Moderated Relationships pp. 1133-1158

Kai Arzheimer, Carl Berning, Sarah de Lange, Jerome Dutozia, Jocelyn Evans, Myles Gould, Eelco Harteveld, Nick Hood, Gilles Ivaldi, Paul Norman, Wouter van der Brug and Tom van der Meer

Nationalism, Status, and Conspiracy Theories: Evidence from Pakistan pp. 1159-1179

Asfandyar Mir and Niloufer Siddiqui

The Wrong Winners: Anti-Corporate Animus and Attitudes Towards Trade pp. 1180-1197

Anil Menon and Iain Osgood

Bound by Borders: Voter Mobilization Through Social Networks pp. 1198-1216

Gary W. Cox, Jon Fiva and Max-Emil M. King

When Group Appeals Backfire: Explaining the Asymmetric Effects of Place-Based Appeals pp. 1217-1238

Lukas Haffert, Tabea Palmtag and Dominik Schraff

Dilemmas of Powerlessness: The Ethical Dimensions of Political Action in the Swedish Parliament pp. 1239-1255

Joel Martinsson

Local Newspaper Decline and Political Polarization – Evidence from a Multi-Party Setting pp. 1256-1275

Fabio Ellger, Hanno Hilbig, Sascha Riaz and Philipp Tillmann

European Institutional Integration and the Educational Divide in Support for the European Union pp. 1276-1295

Sharon Baute and Tobias Tober

The Populist Radical Right as Memory Entrepreneur? The Prominence, Sentiment, and Interpretations of History in the German Parliament pp. 1296-1317

Matthias Dilling and Félix Krawatzek

The Shadow Carceral State and Racial Inequality in Turnout pp. 1318-1339

Ted Enamorado, Anne McDonough and Tali Mendelberg

The Weight on Her Shoulders: Marginalization of Women Legislators in Parliaments and Substantive Representation of Women pp. 1340-1361

Reut Itzkovitch-Malka and Odelia Oshri

Party Positioning Under Populist State Leaders pp. 1362-1384

Marcel Garz and Tanmay Singh

Working Mothers and Political Daughters: Intergenerational Dynamics of Women's Political Officeholding pp. 1385-1394

Moa Frödin Gruneau and Johanna Rickne

Pre-Modern Institutions and Later Support for Autocrats in Democratic Elections pp. 1395-1403

Jonathan Stavnskær Doucette

Lexicographic Preferences in Candidate Choice. How Party Affiliation Dominates Gender and Race pp. 1404-1423

Morten Hjortskov and Simon Calmar Andersen

Unequal and Unsupportive: Exposure to Poor People Weakens Support for Redistribution among the Rich pp. 1424-1434

Matias Engdal Christensen, Peter Thisted Dinesen and Kim Mannemar Sønderskov

Do Minorities Feel Welcome in Politics? A Cross-Cultural Study of the United States and Sweden pp. 1435-1444

Nazita Lajevardi, Moa Mårtensson and Kåre Vernby

Do Minorities Feel Welcome in Politics? A Cross-Cultural Study of the United States and Sweden – ERRATUM pp. 1445-1445

Nazita Lajevardi, Moa Mårtensson and Kåre Vernby

Does (Non-)Localness Affect MPs’ Levels of Responsiveness? Evidence from a UK Field Experiment pp. 1446-1456

Diane Bolet and Rosie Campbell

Public Preferences Over Changes to the Composition of Government Tax Revenue pp. 1457-1467

Lucy Barnes, Julia de Romémont and Benjamin E. Lauderdale

How Gap Measures Determine Results: The Case of Proportional Systems and the Gender Mobilization Gap pp. 1468-1476

Mona Morgan-Collins

Shared Demographic Characteristics Do Not Reliably Facilitate Persuasion in Interpersonal Conversations: Evidence from Eight Experiments pp. 1477-1485

David E. Broockman, Joshua L. Kalla, Nicholas Ottone, Erik Santoro and Amanda Weiss

Why Politicians Won't Apologize: Communication Effects in the Aftermath of Sex Scandals pp. 1486-1495

Bence Hamrak, Gabor Simonovits, Alex Rusnak and Ferenc Szucs

Misconduct by Voters' Own Representatives Does Not Affect Voters' Generalized Political Trust pp. 1496-1505

Edmund Kelly and James Tilley

Estimating Ideal Points of British MPs Through Their Social Media Followership pp. 1506-1518

Conor Gaughan

Deliberative Distortions? Homogenization, Polarization, and Domination in Small Group Discussions - ERRATUM pp. 1519-1519

Robert C. Luskin, Gaurav Sood, James S. Fishkin and Kyu S. Hahn

Volume 54, month July, 2024

The Effects of Import Shocks, Electoral Institutions, and Radical Party Competition on Legislator Ideology: Evidence from France pp. 547-572

Anna M. Meyerrose and Sara Watson

Community Size and Electoral Preferences: Evidence From Post-Second World War Baden-Württemberg pp. 573-594

Luciana Fiorini, Michael Jetter, Christopher F. Parmeter and Christopher Parsons

Taxing the 1 per cent: Public Opinion vs Public Policy pp. 595-611

Ruben Mathisen

Less Human Than Human: Threat, Language, and Relative Dehumanization pp. 612-628

Shane P. Singh and Jaroslav Tir

Witch Hunts? Electoral Cycles and Corruption Lawsuits in Argentina pp. 629-648

Germán Feierherd, Ezequiel Gonzalez-Ocantos and Guadalupe Tuñón

Threats and the Public Constraint on Military Spending pp. 649-666

Matthew DiGiuseppe, Alessia Aspide and Jordan Becker

Party Origins, Party Infrastructural Strength, and Governance Outcomes pp. 667-692

Qingjie Zeng

Political Finance and Party Systems in the Normative Theory of Partisanship: Toward a Civic Model pp. 693-711

Matteo Bonotti and Zim Nwokora

Granting Immigrants the Right to Vote in National Elections: Empirical Evidence from Swedish Administrative Data pp. 712-729

Linuz Aggeborn, Henrik Andersson, Sirus H. Dehdari and Karl-Oskar Lindgren

The Importance of Breaking Even: How Local and Aggregate Returns Make Politically Feasible Policies pp. 730-747

Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, Patrick D. Tucker and John J. Cho

Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric and ICE Reporting Interest: Evidence from a Large-Scale Study of Web Search Data pp. 748-770

Masha Krupenkin, Shawndra Hill and David Rothschild

Insecurity and Support for Female Leadership in Conflict States: Evidence from Afghanistan pp. 771-792

Jasmine Bhatia and Steve L. Monroe

A New Dilemma of Social Democracy? The British Labour Party, the White Working Class and Ethnic Minority Representation pp. 793-815

Zack Grant and Geoffrey Evans

Religion, Sexuality Politics, and the Transformation of Latin American Electorates pp. 816-835

Amy Erica Smith and Taylor C. Boas

Value Conflicts Revisited: Muslims, Gender Equality, and Gestures of Respect pp. 836-850

Elisabeth Ivarsflaten, Marc Helbling, Paul M. Sniderman and Richard Traunmüller

Giving to the Extreme? Experimental Evidence on Donor Response to Candidate and District Characteristics pp. 851-873

Mellissa Meisels, Joshua D. Clinton and Gregory A. Huber

Presidential Elections and European Party Systems (1848–2020) pp. 874-891

Fernando Casal Bértoa and Till Weber

The Populist Backlash Against Globalization: A Meta-Analysis of the Causal Evidence pp. 892-916

Gábor Scheiring, Manuel Serrano-Alarcón, Alexandru Moise, Courtney McNamara and David Stuckler

Toeing the Party Line: The Asymmetric Influence of Feminism on Partisans' Participation pp. 917-927

Marzia Oceno and Sara Morell

Personal Economic Shocks and Public Opposition to Unauthorized Immigration pp. 928-936

Daniel J. Hopkins, Yotam Margalit and Omer Solodoch

Legislators' Emotional Engagement with Women's Issues: Gendered Patterns of Vocal Pitch in the German Bundestag pp. 937-945

Oliver Rittmann

Crossing the Line: Evidence for the Categorization Theory of Spatial Voting pp. 946-956

Mark Pickup, Erik Kimbrough and Eline A. de Rooij

How Government Efficiency Shapes Political Trust: Evidence from the Case of Brexit pp. 957-968

Frederik Godt Hansen

The PopuList: A Database of Populist, Far-Left, and Far-Right Parties Using Expert-Informed Qualitative Comparative Classification (EiQCC) pp. 969-978

Matthijs Rooduijn, Andrea L. P. Pirro, Daphne Halikiopoulou, Caterina Froio, Stijn Van Kessel, Sarah L. De Lange, Cas Mudde and Paul Taggart

Neither a Trait nor Wildly Fluctuating: On the Stability of Populist Attitudes and its Implications for Empirical Research pp. 979-992

Christian H. Schimpf, Alexander Wuttke and Harald Schoen

Nostalgia in European Party Politics: A Text-Based Measurement Approach pp. 993-1005

Stefan Müller and Sven-Oliver Proksch

Evaluating the Minority Candidate Penalty with a Regression Discontinuity Approach pp. 1006-1013

Ariel White, Paru Shah, Eric Gonzalez Juenke and Bernard L. Fraga

Young People Punish Undemocratic Behaviour Less Than Older People pp. 1014-1022

Kristian Vrede Skaaning Frederiksen

Volume 54, month April, 2024

Emissions Sufficientarianism pp. 281-294

Goran Duus-Otterstrom

Support for Deliberative mini-Publics among the Losers of Representative Democracy pp. 295-312

Jean-Benoit Pilet, Camille Bedock, David Talukder and Sacha Rangoni

Identity Propaganda pp. 313-338

Carlo M. Horz

Modulation of Democracy: Partisan Communication During and After Election Campaigns pp. 339-354

Bruno Castanho Silva, Lennart Schürmann and Sven-Oliver Proksch

Endogenous Benchmarking and Government Accountability: Experimental Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic pp. 355-372

Michael Becher, Sylvain Brouard and Daniel Stegmueller

Domination at Work: Resisting the Radical Diagnosis pp. 373-388

Harrison Frye

Inductive Risk and the Legitimacy of Non-Majoritarian Institutions pp. 389-404

Trym Nohr Fjørtoft

Window of Opportunity: War and the Origins of Parliament pp. 405-421

Gary W. Cox, Mark Dincecco and Massimiliano Onorato

Affirmative Action, Paternalism, and Respect pp. 422-436

Andreas Bengtson and Viki Møller Lyngby Pedersen

Landholding Inequality, Social Control, and Mass Opposition to Suffrage Extension pp. 437-455

Patrick Emmenegger, Andreina Thoma and André Walter

Does Protest Influence Political Speech? Evidence from UK Climate Protest, 2017–2019 pp. 456-473

Christopher Barrie, Thomas G. Fleming and Sam S. Rowan

The Expertise Paradox: How Policy Expertise Can Hinder Responsiveness pp. 474-491

Miguel M. Pereira and Patrik Öhberg

Anchoring Vignettes as a Diagnostic Tool for Cross-National (in)Comparability of Survey Measures: The Case of Voters’ Left-Right Self-Placement pp. 492-502

Nick Lin and Seonghui Lee

House Members on the News: Local Television News Coverage of Incumbents pp. 503-513

Gregory A. Huber and Patrick D. Tucker

The Rich Have a Slight Edge: Evidence from Comparative Data on Income-Based Inequality in Policy Congruence pp. 514-525

Mikael Persson and Anders Sundell

Legislative Resources, Corruption, and Incumbency pp. 526-535

Shane Martin, Charles T. McClean and Kaare W. Strøm

Are the Effects of Terrorism Short-Lived? pp. 536-545

Vincenzo Bove, Georgios Efthyvoulou and Harry Pickard

Volume 54, month January, 2024

Ancestral Kinship and the Origins of Ideology pp. 1-21

Neil Fasching and Yphtach Lelkes

Ballot Reform, the Personal Vote, and Political Representation in the United States pp. 22-39

Daniel J. Moskowitz and Jon C. Rogowski

Electoral Systems and Geographic Representation pp. 40-68

Leonardo Carella and Andrew Eggers

Heuristic Projection: Why Interest Group Cues May Fail to Help Citizens Hold Politicians Accountable pp. 69-87

David E. Broockman, Aaron Kaufman and Gabriel S. Lenz

How Local Factions Pressure Parties: Activist Groups and Primary Contests in the Tea Party Era pp. 88-109

Rachel M. Blum and Mike Cowburn

When Do Citizens Consider Political Parties Legitimate? pp. 110-128

Ann-Kristin Kölln

Founding Narratives and Men's Political Ambition: Experimental Evidence from US Civics Lessons pp. 129-151

Amanda Clayton, Diana Z. O'Brien and Jennifer M. Piscopo

Does Party-System Fragmentation Affect the Quality of Democracy? pp. 152-178

Vicente Valentim and Elias Dinas

‘Super-Unsupervised’ Classification for Labelling Text: Online Political Hostility as an Illustration pp. 179-200

Stig Hebbelstrup Rye Rasmussen, Alexander Bor, Mathias Osmundsen and Michael Bang Petersen

Lexical Ambiguity in Political Rhetoric: Why Morality Doesn't Fit in a Bag of Words pp. 201-219

Patrick W. Kraft and Robert Klemmensen

Economic Shocks and the Development of Immigration Attitudes pp. 220-240

Dillon Laaker

Social Pressure in the International Human Rights Regime: Why States Withdraw Treaty Reservations pp. 241-259

Christina Boyes, Cody D. Eldredge, Megan Shannon and Kelebogile Zvobgo

Extortion, Civic Action, and Political Participation among Guatemalan Deportees pp. 260-279

Elaine K. Denny, David Dow, Gabriella Levy and Mateo Villamizar-Chaparro