British Journal of Political Science

1971 - 2025

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Volume 41, month October, 2011

Sibling Ideological Influence: A Natural Experiment pp. 693-712

R. Urbatsch

Japanese Liberal Democratic Party Support and the Gender Gap: A New Approach pp. 713-733

Daniel P. Aldrich and Rieko Kage

A Test of Core Vote Theories: The British Conservatives, 1997–2005 pp. 735-764

Jane Green

Ideological Hedging in Uncertain Times: Inconsistent Legislative Representation and Voter Enfranchisement pp. 765-794

Antoine Yoshinaka and Christian R. Grose

Casualties and Incumbents: Do the Casualties from Interstate Conflicts Affect Incumbent Party Vote Share? pp. 795-817

Michael T. Koch

Policy Responsiveness in Post-communist Europe: Public Preferences and Economic Reforms pp. 819-839

Andrew Roberts and Byung-Yeon Kim

The Hidden Effects of Rules Not Broken: Career Paths, Institutional Rules and Anticipatory Exit in Legislatures pp. 841-857

Kristin Kanthak

Disaggregating Mediations: The Impact of Multiparty Mediation pp. 859-881

Tobias Böhmelt

Do We Really Need a New ‘Constructivist Institutionalism’ to Explain Institutional Change? pp. 883-906

Stephen Bell

Marketization via Compensation: Health Care and the Politics of the Right in Advanced Industrialized Nations pp. 907-926

Carsten Jensen

Volume 41, month July, 2011

Foreign-Imposed Regime Change, State Power and Civil War Onset, 1920–2004 pp. 453-475

Goran Peic and Dan Reiter

Selection and Sanctioning in European Parliamentary Elections pp. 477-498

Sara B. Hobolt and Bjørn Høyland

National Debates, Local Responses: The Origins of Local Concern about Immigration in Britain and the United States pp. 499-524

Daniel J. Hopkins

The Political Economy of Imperialism, Decolonization and Development pp. 525-556

Erik Gartzke and Dominic Rohner

Assessing the Importance of Financial and Human Capital for Interest Group Sector Strength across American Communities pp. 557-580

Maryann Barakso, Jessica C. Gerrity and Brian F. Schaffner

Freedom for All? The Strength and Limits of Political Tolerance pp. 581-597

Michael Petersen, Rune Slothuus, Rune Stubager and Lise Togeby

Government Intentions and Citizen Preferences in Dynamic Perspective pp. 599-619

Paul V. Warwick

‘The Arithmetic of Compassion’: Rethinking the Politics of Photography pp. 621-643

James Johnson

Expressive Political Behaviour: Foundations, Scope and Implications pp. 645-670

Alan Hamlin and Colin Jennings

Third Ways and Social Democracy: The Right Way to Go? pp. 671-680

Hans Keman

Probability and Plausibility of Cycles in Three-party Systems: A Mathematical Formulation and Application pp. 681-692

Katri Sieberg and Michael D. McDonald

Volume 41, month April, 2011

Informal Social Networks and Rational Voting pp. 229-257

Samuel Abrams, Torben Iversen and David Soskice

The Moving Centre: Preferences for Government Activity in Britain, 1950–2005 pp. 259-285

John Bartle, Sebastian Dellepiane-Avellaneda and James Stimson

Downs, Stokes and the Dynamics of Electoral Choice pp. 287-314

David Sanders, Harold D. Clarke, Marianne C. Stewart and Paul Whiteley

Engineering Good Times: Fiscal Manipulation in a Global Economy pp. 315-340

O’Mahony, Angela

Party-System Extremism in Majoritarian and Proportional Electoral Systems pp. 341-361

Jay K. Dow

Risk Inequality and the Polarized American Electorate pp. 363-387

Philipp Rehm

Who’s to Blame? The Distribution of Responsibility in Developing Democracies pp. 389-411

Isabella Alcañiz and Timothy Hellwig

Review Article: Comparative Political Science and the Study of Education pp. 413-443

Marius R. Busemeyer and Christine Trampusch

Political Toleration: A Reply to Newey pp. 445-447

Peter Jones

Reply to Dow: Party Positions, Votes and the Mediating Role of Electoral Systems? pp. 448-452

Lawrence Ezrow

Volume 41, month January, 2011

Context and Economic Expectations: When Do Voters Get It Right? pp. 1-31

Raymond M. Duch and Randolph T. Stevenson

Do British Party Politics Exhibit Cycles? pp. 33-55

Samuel Merrill, Bernard Grofman and Thomas L. Brunell

Does Ethnic Diversity Erode Trust? Putnam’s ‘Hunkering Down’ Thesis Reconsidered pp. 57-82

Patrick Sturgis, Ian Brunton-Smith, Sanna Read and Nick Allum

Economic Performance and Elite Defection from Hegemonic Parties pp. 83-110

Ora John Reuter and Jennifer Gandhi

Cross-Cuttingness, Cleavage Structures and Civil War Onset pp. 111-138

Joel Sawat Selway

Information, Commitment and Consensus: A Comparison of Three Perspectives on Delegation in the European Union pp. 139-159

Robert Thomson and René Torenvlied

The Density of the EU Interest System: A Test of the ESA Model pp. 161-190

Anne Messer, Joost Berkhout and David Lowery

Review Article: ‘Major Combat Operations Have Ended’? Arguing about Rational Choice pp. 191-210

Andrew Hindmoor

The Participatory Personality: Evidence from Latin America pp. 211-221

Jeffery J. Mondak, Damarys Canache, Mitchell A. Seligson and Matthew V. Hibbing

Political Toleration: A Reply to Jones pp. 223-227

Glen Newey

Volume 40, month October, 2010

State of Independence: Explaining and Maintaining the Distinctive Competence of the British Journal of Political Science pp. 711-724

Jack H. Nagel

Perverting the Course of Politics pp. 725-739

Robert E. Goodin

Does Democracy Reduce Economic Inequality? pp. 741-757

Jeffrey F. Timmons

The Social Origins of Electoral Volatility in Africa pp. 759-779

Karen E. Ferree

Ideology, Party Factionalism and Policy Change: An integrated dynamic theory pp. 781-804

Ian Budge, Lawrence Ezrow and Michael D. McDonald

Political Polarization and Cabinet Stability in Multiparty Systems: A Social Networks Analysis of European Parliaments, 1945–98 pp. 805-833

Zeev Maoz and Zeynep Somer-Topcu

Political Representation and its Mechanisms: A Dynamic Left–Right Approach for the United Kingdom, 1976–2006 pp. 835-856

Armen Hakhverdian

Integration, Cohesion and National Identity: Theoretical Reflections on Recent British Policy pp. 857-874

Andrew Mason

Electoral System Change, Generations, Competitiveness and Turnout in New Zealand, 1963–2005 pp. 875-895

Jack Vowles

Compulsory Voting: A Critical Perspective pp. 897-915

Annabelle Lever

On the Justifiability of Compulsory Voting: Reply to Lever pp. 917-923

Lisa Hill

Democracy and Voting: A Response to Lisa Hill pp. 925-929

Annabelle Lever

Volume 40, month July, 2010

The Journal as a System of Norms pp. 477-485

Albert Weale

Colonialism, Property Rights and the Modern World Income Distribution pp. 487-508

Matthew D. Fails and Jonathan Krieckhaus

A Comparison of International and Domestic Sources of Global Governance Dynamics pp. 509-538

Thomas Bernauer, Anna Kalbhenn, Vally Koubi and Gabriele Spilker

In Defence of Mercenarism pp. 539-559

Cécile Fabre

Punctuations and Turning Points in British Politics: The Policy Agenda of the Queen’s Speech, 1940–2005 pp. 561-586

Peter John and Will Jennings

Position Taking in European Parliament Speeches pp. 587-611

Sven-Oliver Proksch and Jonathan B. Slapin

Reflection in the Shadow of Blame: When Do Politicians Appoint Commissions of Inquiry? pp. 613-634

Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan

The Stakes of Losing Office, Term Limits and Democracy pp. 635-662

Alexander Baturo

The Political Conditionality of Mass Media Influence: When Do Parties Follow Mass Media Attention? pp. 663-677

Christoffer Green-Pedersen and Rune Stubager

Review Article: Democratic Inclusiveness: A Reinterpretation of Lijphart’s Patterns of Democracy pp. 679-692

Steffen Ganghof

Candidate Gender and Electoral Success in Single Transferable Vote Systems pp. 693-709

Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer, Michael Malecki and Brian F. Crisp

Volume 40, month April, 2010

Journals and the Production of Knowledge: A Publishing Perspective pp. 237-248

Patrick McCartan

‘Off With Their Heads’: British Prime Ministers and the Power to Dismiss pp. 249-278

Anthony King and Nicholas Allen

Centre-Party Strength and Major-Party Divergence in Britain, 1945–2005 pp. 279-304

Jack H. Nagel and Christopher Wlezien

The Dynamics of Ethnonationalist Contention pp. 305-331

Michelle Benson and Gregory Saxton

Disaggregating Deliberation’s Effects: An Experiment within a Deliberative Poll pp. 333-347

Cynthia Farrar, James S. Fishkin, Donald P. Green, Christian List, Robert C. Luskin and Elizabeth Levy Paluck

Social Identity, Electoral Institutions and the Number of Candidates pp. 349-375

Eric S. Dickson and Kenneth Scheve

Party Policy and Group Affiliation in the European Parliament pp. 377-398

Gail McElroy and Kenneth Benoit

Sophisticated Voting on Competing Ballot Measures: Spatial Theory and Evidence pp. 399-418

David Hugh-Jones

Divided We Fall: Opposition Fragmentation and the Electoral Fortunes of Governing Parties pp. 419-434

Ko Maeda

Deliberative Democracy in an Unlikely Place: Deliberative Polling in China pp. 435-448

James S. Fishkin, Baogang He, Robert C. Luskin and Alice Siu

Better Know Your Dependent Variable: A Multination Analysis of Government Support Measures in Economic Popularity Models pp. 449-468

Mark Pickup

The Red Queen and the Dynamics of Resource Spending in Party Competition pp. 469-475

Alex Coram

Volume 40, month January, 2010

The Career of a Generalist Journal pp. 1-10

Robert E. Goodin

Spatial Models, Cognitive Metrics, and Majority Rule Equilibria pp. 11-30

Macartan Humphreys and Michael Laver

Most Common When Least Important: Deliberation in the European Union Council of Ministers pp. 31-50

Daniel Naurin

The Individual–Institutional Nexus of Protest Behaviour pp. 51-73

Russell Dalton, Alix Van Sickle and Steven Weldon

Explaining the De Facto Independence of Public Broadcasters pp. 75-89

Chris Hanretty

Political Cycles, Political Institutions and Public Expenditure in India, 1980–2000 pp. 91-113

Lawrence Sáez and Aseema Sinha

The Attribution of Credit and Blame to Governments and Its Impact on Vote Choice pp. 115-134

Michael Marsh and James Tilley

Land Redistribution/Restitution in South Africa: A Model of Multiple Values, as the Past Meets the Present pp. 135-169

James L. Gibson

Do Women Need Women Representatives? pp. 171-194

Rosie Campbell, Sarah Childs and Joni Lovenduski

Review Article: Good Governance, Institutions and Economic Development: Beyond the Conventional Wisdom pp. 195-224

Sebastian Dellepiane-Avellaneda

Selection Effects in Roll Call Votes pp. 225-235

Simon Hug