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

Early Money and Strategic Candidate Exit pp. -

Danielle M. Thomsen

Venturing Beyond the Vote: Routes to Feeling Represented through Unelected Representation pp. -

Andrea Vik, Pieter de Wilde, Oliver Treib and Lene Aarøe

Media Platforming and the Normalisation of Extreme Right Views pp. -

Diane Bolet and Florian Foos

Not Getting the Message on Climate? Attention as a Key Barrier to Mass-Marketing Experimentally-Validated Messages pp. -

Nicholas Carnes and Geoffrey L. Henderson

Austerity and Social Spending: Estimating the Long-Run Effects of Fiscal Adjustment pp. -

Nils Blossey

The Religious Roots of Belief in Misinformation: Experimental Evidence from India pp. -

Simon Chauchard and Sumitra Badrinathan

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

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

Should Political Discrimination be Unlawful? pp. -

Thomas W. Simpson

Parents, Peers and Political Participation: Social Influence among Roommates pp. -

Brad T. Gomez and Matthew T. Pietryka

Bargaining Complexity Beyond Arithmetic pp. -

Axel Cronert and Pär Nyman

Executive Policymaking Coalitions, Veto Activation, and Collective Action Problems pp. -

Nicholas G. Napolio

Perceptions of Ethnic Minority Discrimination: Statistics and Stories Move Majorities pp. -

Peter Thisted Dinesen, Clara Vandeweerdt and Kim Mannemar Sønderskov

Anti-homeless Hostile Design as Wrongful Discrimination pp. -

Andreas Albertsen and Carl Knight

Detecting Group Mentions in Political Rhetoric A Supervised Learning Approach pp. -

Hauke Licht and Ronja Sczepanski

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

Farsan Ghassim

Rethinking Citizen Competence: A New Theoretical and Empirical Framework pp. -

Steven Klein and Ethan Porter

Deepening, Bridging, and Moving Minds in Stressful Times pp. -

Simon Stocker, André Bächtiger, Bernhard Kittel and Marco Steenbergen

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

Matthew DiGiuseppe and Patrick E. Shea

Believing What Politicians Communicate: Ideological Presentation of Self and Voters’ Perceptions of Politician Ideology pp. -

Hans J. G. Hassell, Michael Heseltine and Kevin Reuning

The Gendered Persistence of Authoritarian Indoctrination pp. -

Nourhan A. Elsayed, Hanno Hilbig, Sascha Riaz and Daniel Ziblatt

The Electoral Implications of Legislative Candidate Selection Democratization pp. -

Jorge M. Fernandes, Alon Yakter, Yael Shomer and Gert-Jan Put

Inflation and Incumbent Support: Experimental Evidence from the 2024 US Presidential Election pp. -

Selim Erdem Aytaç, Daniel McDowell and David A. Steinberg

Green Party Entry and Conservative Backlash: Evidence from Germany pp. -

Tom Arend, Fabio Ellger and António Valentim

Paths to Power: A New Dataset on the Social Profile of Governments pp. -

Jacob Nyrup, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Peter Egge Langsæther and Ina Lyftingsmo Kristiansen

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

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

Right-Wing Terror, Media Backlash, and Voting Preferences for the Far Right pp. -

Alexander De Juan, Felix Haass and Julian Voß

Policlim: A Dataset of Climate Change Discourse in the Political Manifestos of Forty-Five Countries from 1990 to 2022 pp. -

Mary Sanford, Silvia Pianta, Nicolas Schmid and Giorgio Musto

Climate Policy Costs, Regional Politics, and Backlash against International Co-operation pp. -

Patrick Bayer and Federica Genovese

Election Pledges in Multiparty Governments: When do Voters Accept Non-Fulfillment? pp. -

Juha Ylisalo, Theres Matthieß, Katrin Praprotnik and Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik

If They Don’t Do the Job, We’ll Do It! Regional Economic Conditions and Support for Democratic Innovations in Europe pp. -

Emilien Paulis, Take Sipma and David Talukder

Exposure to Confederate Monuments: The Political Effect of Non-Intervention pp. -

Ana Ruipérez Núñez

Autocratic Audiences and Linguistic Complexity pp. -

Nikita Khokhlov and Alexander Baturo

Interstate Conflict Increases the Appeal of Undemocratic Candidates pp. -

Kristian Frederiksen and Lasse Laustsen

Activism and the Electoral Participation of Women pp. -

Mona Morgan-Collins and Valeria Rueda

Party Behaviour and the Gender Voting Gap pp. -

Gonzalo Di Landro

Do More Disaggregated Electoral Results Deter Aggregation Fraud? pp. -

Miguel R. Rueda, Guy Grossman and Shuning Ge

Seeking Opportunity in the Knowledge Economy: Moving Places, Moving Politics? pp. -

Valentina Consiglio and Thomas Kurer

Can Student Body Diversity Foster Inter-ethnic Trust, Tolerance, and National Identification Prioritization? The Role of Friendship in Kenya pp. -

Jaimie Bleck, Robert Dowd, Danice Guzman, John Mugo and Jackline Oluoch-Aridi

Educational Networks, Social Closure, and Cleavage Stabilization pp. -

David Attewell and Delia Zollinger

Defending the Status Quo? How Re-election Shapes Criminal Collusion in Mexico pp. -

Adee Weller

Globalization, Higher Education, and Neoliberal Values: Evidence from the Bologna Process pp. -

Marco Giani

How Are Social Groups Linked to the Vote? Social Group Perceptions and Party Choice pp. -

Rune Stubager

Estimating the Impact of Drone Strikes on Civilians Using Call Detail Records pp. -

Paolo Bertolotti, Aidan Milliff, Fotini Christia and Ali Jadbabaie

Public Works and Intimate Partner Violence: Experimental Evidence on Women’s Economic Empowerment in Egypt and Tunisia pp. -

Robert A. Blair and Eric Mvukiyehe

Reluctance to Speak Your Mind: Changing Perceptions of the Costs of Speaking Out Among Black and White Americans pp. -

James L. Gibson

Examining Voting Spillover Effects of Text Message Reminders pp. -

Karl-Oskar Lindgren, Pär Nyman and Sven Oskarsson

A Rainbow Ceiling? Sexual Orientation and Party Leader Evaluations pp. -

Joseph Francesco Cozza, Gonzalo Di Landro, Andrea Aldrich and Zeynep Somer-Topcu

How to Distinguish Human Error From Election Fraud: Evidence From the 2019 Malawi Election pp. -

Johan Ahlbäck and Ryan Jablonski

Political Scandals and Vertical Contagion in Multilevel Systems pp. -

Jac Larner, Robert Johns, Ailsa Henderson, Fraser McMillan and Christopher Carman

Turning a Blind Eye to Repression: Examining Popular Approval for State Crackdowns on Peaceful Protests in Russia pp. -

Suthan Krishnarajan and Jakob Tolstrup

Regional Labor Markets, Residential Mobility, and Anti-Immigration Sentiment pp. -

Denis Cohen and Sergi Pardos-Prado

Leveling and Spotlighting: How the European Court of Justice Favors the Weak to Promote Its Legitimacy pp. -

Silje Synnøve Lyder Hermansen, Tommaso Pavone and Louisa Boulaziz

The Consequences of Elite Action Against Elections pp. -

Rachel Porter, Jeffrey J. Harden, Emily Anderson, Géssica de Freitas, Mackenzie R. Dobson, Abigail Hemmen and Emma Schroeder

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

Jeffrey Nonnemacher

Public Support for Pro-environment and Environment-Critical Movements pp. -

Dirck De Kleer, Catherine E. De Vries and Simon van Teutem

From the Factory Floor to the Ballot Box: Firm-Based Origins of Brazil’s Populist Right pp. -

Matias Giannoni

Inferring Individual Preferences from Group Decisions: Judicial Preference Variation and Aggregation on Collegial Courts pp. -

Dominik Hangartner, Benjamin E. Lauderdale and Judith Spirig

Dynamic Democratic Backsliding pp. -

Eddy S. F. Yeung

Public Opinion and Emphatic Legislative Speech: Evidence from an Automated Video Analysis pp. -

Oliver Rittmann, Tobias Ringwald and Dominic Nyhuis

Hide and Seek: Offshore Financial Centers and Targeted Sanctions pp. -

Menevis Cilizoglu and Chelsea Estancona

The Politics of Imperial Nostalgia pp. -

Christopher Claassen and Daniel Devine

A Meta-Analysis of Attitudes Towards Migrants and Displaced Persons pp. -

Sigrid Weber, Nik Stoop, Peter van der Windt and Haoyu Zhai

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

Does the Accumulation of Assets Shape Voting Preferences? Evidence from a Longitudinal Study in Britain pp. -

Justin Robinson, Pavlos Vasilopoulos and Sofia Vasilopoulou

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

Jin Woo Kim

Family Matters: How Concerns about the Financial Wellbeing of Young Relatives Shape the Political Preferences of Older Adults pp. -

Zack Grant, Jane Green and Geoffrey Evans

Choosing Democracy Over Party? How Civic Education Can Mitigate the Anti-Democratic Effects of Partisan Polarization pp. -

Melek Hilal Eroglu, Steven E. Finkel, Anja Neundorf, Aykut Öztürk and Ericka G. Rascón Ramírez

Trustworthy Media and Gender Gaps in Political Participation after Civil War: Experimental Evidence from Rural Liberia pp. -

Eric Mvukiyehe

Deliberation and Human Nature – CORRIGENDUM pp. -

Ramon van der Does

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

Xun Cao and Zheng Su

The Correlates of Ethnicity: Why the Ethnic Majority Expects That Ethnic Minorities Contribute Less to the Collective pp. -

Mathias Kruse

Macrointerest Across Countries pp. -

Yue Hu and Frederick Solt

Legislative Cooptation in Authoritarian Regimes: Policy Cooperation in the Kuwait National Assembly pp. -

Daniel L. Tavana and Erin York

Gender Vote Gaps Among Ethnic Minority Voters in Britain pp. -

Nicole S. Martin and Rosalind Shorrocks

Inflation, Blame Attribution, and the 2022 US Congressional Elections pp. -

Leonardo Baccini and Stephen Weymouth

Defending the Status Quo or Seeking Change? Electoral Outcomes, Affective Polarization, and Support for Referendums pp. -

Bjarn Eck and Emilien Paulis

Mandate Complexity and United Nations Peacekeeping Contributions pp. -

Lisa Hultman, Jacob D. Kathman and Megan Shannon

Gendered Expectations: Do Voters Reward Women for Supporting Women’s Interests? pp. -

Nichole M. Bauer, Anna Gunderson, Jeong Hyun Kim, Elizabeth Lane, Belinda Davis and Kathleen Searles

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

Matthew DiGiuseppe and Patrick E. Shea

Selecting the ‘Best’? Competing Dimensions of Politician Quality in the Developing World pp. -

Ananish Chaudhuri, Vegard Iversen, Francesca R. Jensenius and Pushkar Maitra

Beyond Retraumatization: Trauma-Informed Political Science Research pp. -

Amanda Weiss

Beyond Observational Relationships: Evidence from a Ten-Country Experiment that Policy Disputes Cause Affective Polarization pp. -

Noam Gidron, James Adams, Will Horne and Thomas Tichelbaecker

Understanding Voter Fatigue: Election Frequency and Electoral Abstention Approval pp. -

Filip Kostelka

How Do Electoral Outcomes Affect Campaign Contributions? The Role of Personal Loyalty and Investment Motives pp. -

Miguel R. Rueda and Nelson A. Ruiz

Political Activists are Not Driven by Instrumental Motives: Evidence from Two Natural Field Experiments pp. -

Anselm Hager, Lukas Hensel, Johannes Hermle and Christopher Roth

What Is the Point of Harm Reduction? A Relational Egalitarian Perspective pp. -

Giacomo Floris

The Electoral Appeal of Symbolic Class Signalling Through Cultural Consumption pp. -

David Weisstanner and Sarah Engler

How Does Public Opinion Respond to Government Injustices Against Historically Discriminated Minorities? Evidence from Norway pp. -

Helga Malmin Binningsbø, Karin Dyrstad and Henning Finseraas

Digital Interdependence and Power Politics pp. -

Harry Oppenheimer

The Politics of Small Business Owners pp. -

Neil Malhotra, Yotam Margalit and Saikun Shi

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

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

Spraying Conflict: Aerial Drug Eradication and Armed Violence in Colombia pp. -

Juan Felipe Campos-Contreras, Camilo Nieto-Matiz and Luis L. Schenoni

Voter Sexism and Electoral Penalties for Women Candidates: Evidence from Four Democracies pp. -

Rosalind Shorrocks, Elizabeth Ralph-Morrow and Roosmarijn de Geus

Taxation and Social Intermediaries: Experimental Evidence from Lagos, Nigeria pp. -

Jessica Gottlieb, Adrienne LeBas and Janica Magat

Principled Pragmatism: Big Business and Campaign Contributions After January 6 pp. -

Amy Meli and Florian Gawehns