British Journal of Political Science

1971 - 2025

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Volume 52, month October, 2022

Who are the 3 Per Cent? The Connections Among Climate Change Contrarians pp. 1503-1522

Laura D. Young and Erin B. Fitz

Location, Location, Location: How Electoral Opportunities Shape Women's Emergence as Candidates pp. 1523-1543

Heather L. Ondercin

Gender Stereotyping and the Electoral Success of Women Candidates: New Evidence from Local Elections in the United States pp. 1544-1563

Sarah F. Anzia and Rachel Bernhard

Understanding Ambivalent Sexism and its Relationship with Electoral Choice in Britain pp. 1564-1583

Roosmarijn de Geus, Elizabeth Ralph-Morrow and Rosalind Shorrocks

No Longer Conforming to Stereotypes? Gender, Political Style and Parliamentary Debate in the UK pp. 1584-1601

Lotte Hargrave and Jack Blumenau

Constrained Citizens? Ideological Structure and Conflict Extension in the US Electorate, 1980–2016 pp. 1602-1621

Christopher Hare

Television and Economic Voting in US Presidential Elections pp. 1622-1634

B.K. Song

Can Raising the Stakes of Election Outcomes Increase Participation? Results from a Large-Scale Field Experiment in Local Elections pp. 1635-1650

Gregory A. Huber, Alan S. Gerber, Daniel R. Biggers and David J. Hendry

Phantom Pains: The Effect of Police Killings of Black Americans on Black British Attitudes pp. 1651-1667

Ayobami Laniyonu

The Long Shadow of Agrarian Conflict: Agrarian Inequality and Voting in Spain pp. 1668-1688

Jordi Domenech and Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca

Commodity Shocks and Incumbency Effects pp. 1689-1708

Lucas Novaes and Luis Schiumerini

Casting Ballots When Knowing Results pp. 1709-1727

Victor Araújo and Malu A.C. Gatto

Participation Improves Collective Decisions (When It Involves Deliberation): Experimental Evidence From Kenya pp. 1728-1747

Tara Grillos

Civil War and Citizens' Demand for the State: An Empirical Test of Hobbesian Theory pp. 1748-1768

Robert A. Blair

From Chatter to Action: How Social Networks Inform and Motivate in Rural Uganda pp. 1769-1789

Jennifer M. Larson, Janet I. Lewis and Pedro L. Rodriguez

When Do Private Actors Engage in Censorship? Evidence From a Correspondence Experiment with Russian Private Media Firms pp. 1790-1809

Quintin H. Beazer, Charles D. Crabtree, Christopher J. Fariss and Holger L. Kern

How Does International Intervention Work to Secure Peace Settlements After Civil Conflicts? pp. 1810-1830

Aila M. Matanock and Adam Lichtenheld

Language, Ethnicity, and Separatism: Survey Results from Two Post-Soviet Regions pp. 1831-1851

Kyle L. Marquardt

How Do Violent Politicians Govern? The Case of Paramilitary-Tied Mayors in Colombia pp. 1852-1875

Sarah Zukerman Daly

Where Is Presidential Power? Measuring Presidential Discretion Using Experts pp. 1876-1890

Kenneth Lowande and Charles R. Shipan

The Effect of Electoral Inversions on Democratic Legitimacy: Evidence from the United States pp. 1891-1901

John M. Carey, Gretchen Helmke, Brendan Nyhan, Mitchell Sanders, Susan C. Stokes and Shun Yamaya

County Over Party: How Governors Prioritized Geography Not Particularism in the Distribution of Opportunity Zones pp. 1902-1910

David Glick and Maxwell Palmer

When Is A Pledge A Pledge? pp. 1911-1922

Suthan Krishnarajan and Carsten Jensen

Public Distrust in Disputed Elections: Evidence from Latin America pp. 1923-1930

Victor Hernández-Huerta and Francisco Cantú

How Open Lists Undermine the Electoral Support of Cohesive Parties pp. 1931-1943

Thomas Bräuninger, Thomas Däubler, Robert Huber and Lukas Rudolph

Global Capital Cycles and Market Discipline: Perceptions of Developing-Country Borrowers pp. 1944-1953

Alexandra O. Zeitz

Sanctuary Cities in Europe? A Policy Survey of Urban Policies in Support of Irregular Migrants pp. 1954-1963

David Kaufmann, Nora Räss, Dominique Strebel and Fritz Sager

Untying Hands: De-escalation, Reputation, and Dynamic Audience Costs pp. 1964-1976

Kai Quek

Cultural Backlash? How (Not) to Explain the Rise of Authoritarian Populism pp. 1977-1993

Armin Schäfer

The Role of Child Perception and Motivation in Political Socialization – ERRATUM pp. 1994-1995

Peter K. Hatemi and Christopher Ojeda

Volume 52, month July, 2022

Immigrant Political Representation and Local Ethnic Concentration: Evidence from a Swedish Refugee Placement Program pp. 997-1012

Karl-Oskar Lindgren, Michael D. Nicholson and Sven Oskarsson

Does Immigration Produce a Public Backlash or Public Acceptance? Time-Series, Cross-Sectional Evidence from Thirty European Democracies pp. 1013-1031

Christopher Claassen and Lauren McLaren

A New Electorate? Explaining the Party Preferences of Immigrant-Origin Voters at the 2017 Bundestag Election pp. 1032-1054

Achim Goerres, Sabrina Jasmin Mayer and Dennis Christopher Spies

Against the Flow: Differentiating Between Public Opposition to the Immigration Stock and Flow pp. 1055-1075

Yotam Margalit and Omer Solodoch

The Effects of Dehumanizing Attitudes about Black People on Whites’ Voting Decisions pp. 1076-1098

Ashley Jardina and Spencer Piston

The Super-Predator Effect: How Negative Targeted Messages Demobilize Black Voters pp. 1099-1112

Christopher Stout and Keith Baker

Protecting the Vote? Peacekeeping Presence and the Risk of Electoral Violence pp. 1113-1132

Hanne Fjelde and Hannah M. Smidt

Did Terrorism Affect Voting in the Brexit Referendum? pp. 1133-1150

Vincenzo Bove, Georgios Efthyvoulou and Harry Pickard

Leader Nationalism, Ethnic Identity, and Terrorist Violence pp. 1151-1167

Seung-Whan Choi

Democratizing the Party: The Effects of Primary Election Reforms in Ghana pp. 1168-1185

Nahomi Ichino and Noah L. Nathan

How Does Uncertainty Affect Voters' Preferences? pp. 1186-1204

Love Christensen

Deliberative Distortions? Homogenization, Polarization, and Domination in Small Group Discussions pp. 1205-1225

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

Feminism as Epic Theory pp. 1226-1239

Kate M. Phelan

Rethinking Women's Interests: An Inductive and Intersectional Approach to Defining Women's Policy Priorities pp. 1240-1257

Tevfik Murat Yildirim

Pronoun Usage as a Measure of Power Personalization: A General Theory with Evidence from the Chinese-Speaking World pp. 1258-1275

Amy H. Liu

Taxing the Tails in a Global Economy: How Electoral, Party and Wage Bargaining Systems Interact to Determine the Taxes Paid by the Poor and Rich pp. 1276-1295

Jude C. Hays

Are Policy Analogies Persuasive? The Household Budget Analogy and Public Support for Austerity pp. 1296-1314

Lucy Barnes and Timothy Hicks

When Does Income Inequality Cause Polarization? pp. 1315-1332

Jacob R. Gunderson

Winning Hearts and Minds for Rebel Rulers: Foreign Aid and Military Contestation in Syria pp. 1333-1354

Allison Carnegie, Kimberly Howe, Adam G. Lichtenheld and Dipali Mukhopadhyay

Foreign Aid and Soft Power: Great Power Competition in Africa in the Early Twenty-first Century pp. 1355-1376

Robert A. Blair, Robert Marty and Philip Roessler

Militarization and Perceptions of Law Enforcement in the Developing World: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment in Mexico pp. 1377-1397

Gustavo Flores-Macías and Jessica Zarkin

The Comparative Legislators Database pp. 1398-1408

Sascha Göbel and Simon Munzert

Are Populists Sore Losers? Explaining Populist Citizens' Preferences for and Reactions to Referendums pp. 1409-1417

Hannah Werner and Kristof Jacobs

Response Options and the Measurement of Political Knowledge pp. 1418-1427

John G. Bullock and Kelly Rader

How do Public Officials Learn About Policy? A Field Experiment on Policy Diffusion pp. 1428-1435

Miguel M. Pereira

Locked Out of College: When Admissions Bureaucrats Do and Do Not Discriminate pp. 1436-1446

Jacob R. Brown and Hanno Hilbig

Political Equality and Substantive Representation by Interest Groups pp. 1447-1454

Frida Boräng and Daniel Naurin

What Countries Select More Experienced Leaders? The PolEx Measure of Political Experience pp. 1455-1464

Alexander Baturo and Johan A. Elkink

The Institutional Order of Liberalization pp. 1465-1471

Amanda B. Edgell, Vanessa A. Boese, Seraphine F. Maerz, Patrik Lindenfors and Staffan I. Lindberg

Asset Specificity, Corporate Protection and Trade Policy: Firm-Level Evidence from Antidumping Petitions in Nineteen Jurisdictions pp. 1472-1481

Benjamin C. K. Egerod and Mogens K. Justesen

The Perils of Estimating Disengagement Effects of Deadly Terrorist Attacks Utilizing Social Media Data pp. 1482-1489

Tanja Marie Hansen

Islamic State's Terrorist Attacks Disengage Their Supporters: Robust Evidence from Twitter pp. 1490-1501

Joan Barceló and Elena Labzina

Volume 52, month April, 2022

Do Stereotypes Explain Discrimination Against Minority Candidates or Discrimination in Favor of Majority Candidates? pp. 501-519

Lea Portmann

Do Disabled Candidates Represent Disabled Citizens? pp. 520-534

Stefanie Reher

The Diminishing Value of Representing the Disadvantaged: Between Group Representation and Individual Career Paths pp. 535-552

Stefanie Bailer, Christian Breunig, Nathalie Giger and Andreas M. Wüst

Can Elites Escape Blame by Explaining Themselves? Suspicion and the Limits of Elite Explanations pp. 553-572

Joshua Robison

Partisan Misalignment and the Counter-Partisan Response: How National Politics Conditions Majority-Party Policy Making in the American States pp. 573-592

Nicholas S. Miras and Stella M. Rouse

Learning at Home and Abroad: How Competition Conditions the Diffusion of Party Strategies pp. 593-612

Sebastian Juhl and Laron K. Williams

The Ties That Bind: Text Similarities and Conditional Diffusion among Parties pp. 613-630

Nils Düpont and Martin Rachuj

Living Together, Voting Together: Voters Moving in Together Before an Election Have Higher Turnout pp. 631-648

Jens Olav Dahlgaard, Yosef Bhatti, Jonas Hedegaard Hansen and Kasper M. Hansen

Candidate Filtering: The Strategic Use of Electoral Manipulations in Russia pp. 649-670

David Szakonyi

When Autocrats Threaten Citizens with Violence: Evidence from China pp. 671-696

Erin Baggott Carter and Brett L. Carter

Politics of Nostalgia and Populism: Evidence from Turkey pp. 697-714

Ezgi Elçi

Railroads and Reform: How Trains Strengthened the Nation State pp. 715-735

Alexandra Cermeño, Kerstin Enflo and Johannes Lindvall

The Origins of Colonial Investments in Former British and French Africa pp. 736-757

Joan Ricart-Huguet

Incumbents Beware: The Impact of Offshoring on Elections pp. 758-780

Stephanie J. Rickard

Do Investor–State Disputes (Still) Harm FDI? pp. 781-804

Andrew Kerner and Krzysztof J. Pelc

What We Talk about When We Talk about Poverty: Culture and Welfare State Development in Britain, Denmark and France pp. 805-828

Cathie Martin and Tom Chevalier

How Credit Markets Substitute for Welfare States and Influence Social Policy Preferences: Evidence from US States pp. 829-849

Andreas Wiedemann

Cyber Terrorism and Public Support for Retaliation – A Multi-Country Survey Experiment pp. 850-868

Ryan Shandler, Michael L. Gross, Sophia Backhaus and Daphna Canetti

The Interaction of Structural Factors and Diffusion in Social Unrest: Evidence from the Swing Riots pp. 869-885

Toke Aidt and Gabriel Leon-Ablan

Hate Speech Prosecution of Politicians and its Effect on Support for the Legal System and Democracy pp. 886-907

Roderik Rekker and Joost van Spanje

Mitigating Servility: Policies of Egalitarian Self-Relations pp. 908-920

Anne-Sofie Greisen Hojlund

Libertarian Paternalism and the Problem of Preference Architecture pp. 921-933

Johannes Kniess

Civic Education in High School and Voter Turnout in Adulthood pp. 934-948

Aaron C. Weinschenk and Christopher T. Dawes

When Does Accommodation Work? Electoral Effects of Mainstream Left Position Taking on Immigration pp. 949-957

Frederik Hjorth and Martin Vinæs Larsen

Explaining the Relationship Between Class Position and Political Preferences: A Long-Term Panel Analysis of Intra-Generational Class Mobility pp. 958-967

Peter Egge Langsæther, Geoffrey Evans and Tom O'Grady

Does Free-Market Reform Induce Protest? Selection, Post-Treatment Bias, and Depoliticization pp. 968-976

Marcus J. Kurtz and Adam Lauretig

Terrorism and Migration: An Overview pp. 977-996

Marc Helbling and Daniel Meierrieks

Volume 52, month January, 2022

Value Shift: Immigration Attitudes and the Sociocultural Divide pp. 1-20

Caroline Marie Lancaster

Economic Opportunities, Emigration and Exit Prisoners pp. 21-40

Carlo M. Horz and Moritz Marbach

The Price of Probity: Anticorruption and Adverse Selection in the Chinese Bureaucracy pp. 41-64

Junyan Jiang, Zijie Shao and Zhiyuan Zhang

The Effects of China's Development Projects on Political Accountability pp. 65-84

Szu-Ning Ping, Yi-Ting Wang and Wen-Yang Chang

Why Do States Intervene in the Elections of Others? The Role of Incumbent–Opposition Divisions pp. 85-106

Johannes Bubeck, Kai Jäger, Nikolay Marinov and Federico Nanni

Political Knowledge and Misinformation in the Era of Social Media: Evidence From the 2015 UK Election pp. 107-127

Kevin Munger, Patrick J. Egan, Jonathan Nagler, Jonathan Ronen and Joshua Tucker

It's All About Solidarity Stupid! How Solidarity Frames Structure the Party Political Sphere pp. 128-145

Peter Thijssen and Pieter Verheyen

Many Ways to be Right: Cross-Pressured Voters in Western Europe pp. 146-161

Noam Gidron

Parties on the Left, Parties on the Right: Electoral Competition and Citizenship Policy Change in Europe pp. 162-180

John Graeber

The Effect of Austerity Packages on Government Popularity During the Great Recession pp. 181-199

Abel Bojar, Björn Bremer, Hanspeter Kriesi and Chendi Wang

Macrointerest pp. 200-220

David A. M. Peterson, Joanne M. Miller, Kyle L. Saunders and Scott D. McClurg

Real, but Limited: A Meta-Analytic Assessment of Framing Effects in the Political Domain pp. 221-237

Eran Amsalem and Alon Zoizner

The Role of Communities in the Transmission of Political Values: Evidence from Forced Population Transfers pp. 238-258

Volha Charnysh and Leonid Peisakhin

Revealing Issue Salience via Costly Protest: How Legislative Behavior Following Protest Advantages Low-Resource Groups pp. 259-279

LaGina Gause

Constitutional Rigidity Matters: A Veto Players Approach pp. 280-299

George Tsebelis

Premise Disputes and Political Ideology pp. 300-319

David C. Barker and Morgan Marietta

Who Gets What: The Economy, Relative Gains and Brexit pp. 320-338

Jane Green, Timothy Hellwig and Edward Fieldhouse

Democracy, Autocracy, and Everything in Between: How Domestic Institutions Affect Environmental Protection pp. 339-357

Jana von Stein

Governmental Responses to Terrorism in Autocracies: Evidence from China pp. 358-380

Philip B. K. Potter and Chen Wang

With Frenemies Like These: Rising Power Voting Behavior in the UN General Assembly pp. 381-398

Martin Binder and Autumn Lockwood Payton

Crime Victimization Increases Turnout: Evidence from Individual-Level Administrative Panel Data pp. 399-407

Kim Mannemar Sønderskov, Peter Thisted Dinesen, Steven E. Finkel and Kasper M. Hansen

State First? A Disaggregation and Empirical Interrogation pp. 408-415

David Andersen and Jonathan Doucette

Have Europeans Grown Tired of Democracy? New Evidence from Eighteen Consolidated Democracies, 1981–2018 pp. 416-428

Alexander Wuttke, Konstantin Gavras and Harald Schoen

Process vs. Outcome? How to Evaluate the Effects of Participatory Processes on Legitimacy Perceptions pp. 429-436

Hannah Werner and Sofie Marien

Western Political Rhetoric and Radicalization pp. 437-444

William O'Brochta, Margit Tavits and Deniz Aksoy

TIP for Tat: Political Bias in Human Trafficking Reporting pp. 445-455

Rachel Harmon, Daniel Arnon and Baekkwan Park

Reducing Risk as well as Inequality: Assessing the Welfare State's Insurance Effects pp. 456-466

Jacob S. Hacker and Philipp Rehm

Dynamic Political Interest: How Personality Differences and the Political Environment Shape Political Interest pp. 467-474

Erik Gahner Larsen

Birth Order and Voter Turnout pp. 475-482

Bernt Bratsberg, Christopher T. Dawes, Andreas Kotsadam, Karl-Oskar Lindgren, Richard Öhrvall, Sven Oskarsson and Oddbjørn Raaum

Partisan Context and Procedural Values: Attitudes Towards Presidential Secrecy Before and after the 2016 US Election pp. 483-491

Daniel Berliner

The Heightened Importance of Racism and Sexism in the 2018 US Midterm Elections pp. 492-500

Brian F. Schaffner