British Journal of Political Science

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Volume 51, month October, 2021

Economic Inequality, Immigrants and Selective Solidarity: From Perceived Lack of Opportunity to In-group Favoritism pp. 1357-1380

Gabriele Magni

‘They Take Our Houses’: Benefit Competition and the Erosion of Support for Immigrants' Social Rights pp. 1381-1401

Gerda Hooijer

Political Trust and Support for Immigration in the American Mass Public pp. 1402-1420

David Macdonald

The Two Faces of Party Ambiguity: A Comprehensive Model of Ambiguous Party Position Perceptions pp. 1421-1438

Dominic Nyhuis and Lukas F. Stoetzer

Party Cues in the News: Democratic Elites, Republican Backlash, and the Dynamics of Climate Skepticism pp. 1439-1456

Eric Merkley and Dominik A. Stecula

Dimensions of Elite Partisan Polarization: Disentangling the Effects of Incivility and Issue Polarization pp. 1457-1475

Rasmus Skytte

Divided by the Vote: Affective Polarization in the Wake of the Brexit Referendum pp. 1476-1493

Sara B. Hobolt, Thomas J. Leeper and James Tilley

Hawkish Partisans: How Political Parties Shape Nationalist Conflicts in China and Japan pp. 1494-1515

Trevor Incerti, Daniel Mattingly, Frances Rosenbluth, Seiki Tanaka and Jiahua Yue

Do as I Say or Do as I Do? How Social Relationships Shape the Impact of Descriptive and Injunctive Norms of Voting pp. 1516-1528

Edward Fieldhouse and David Cutts

Get Information or Get in Formation: The Effects of High-Information Environments on Legislative Elections pp. 1529-1549

Marc Trussler

Primaries Through the Looking Glass: The Electoral Effects of Opening the Selection of Top Candidates pp. 1550-1564

Javier Astudillo and Ignacio Lago

Who Wants To Be a Politician? Basic Human Values and Candidate Emergence in the United Kingdom pp. 1565-1581

James Weinberg

Who Benefits? How Local Ethnic Demography Shapes Political Favoritism in Africa pp. 1582-1600

Janina Beiser-McGrath, Carl Müller-Crepon and Yannick I. Pengl

Public Awareness and the Behavior of Unpopular Courts pp. 1601-1619

Jay N. Krehbiel

An ‘Institution-First’ Conception of Public Integrity pp. 1620-1635

Nikolas Kirby

Who Interacts with Whom? Drivers of Networked Welfare Governance in Europe pp. 1636-1653

Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen, Reini Schrama and Ellen Mastenbroek

Addressing Monotone Likelihood in Duration Modelling of Political Events pp. 1654-1671

Noel Anderson, Benjamin E. Bagozzi and Ore Koren

In Search of Self-Censorship pp. 1672-1684

Xiaoxiao Shen and Rory Truex

Measuring Media Freedom: An Item Response Theory Analysis of Existing Indicators pp. 1685-1704

Jonathan A. Solis and Philip D. Waggoner

The Extraordinary Relationship between Peacekeeping and Peace pp. 1705-1722

Barbara F. Walter, Lise Morje Howard and V. Page Fortna

Conversionary Protestants Do Not Cause Democracy pp. 1723-1733

Elena Nikolova and Jakub Polansky

Archived Attributes: An Internet-Text Approach to Measuring Legislator Attitudes and Behavior pp. 1734-1741

Emily Kalah Gade, Sarah Dreier, John Wilkerson and Anne Washington

Repression and Dissent in Contemporary Catalonia pp. 1742-1750

Laia Balcells, Spencer Dorsey and Juan F. Tellez

Voter Responses to Fiscal Austerity pp. 1751-1760

Evelyne Hübscher, Thomas Sattler and Markus Wagner

Female Empowerment and the Politics of Language: Evidence Using Gender-Neutral Amendments to Subnational Constitutions pp. 1761-1772

Benjamin J. Newman, Stephanie L. DeMora and Tyler T. Reny

Disentangling the Impact of Civil Association Membership on Political Participation: Evidence from Swedish Panel Data pp. 1773-1781

Linuz Aggeborn, Nazita Lajevardi and Pär Nyman

Electoral Reform and Strategic Coordination pp. 1782-1791

Jon Fiva and Simon Hix

Correcting Bias in Perceptions of Public Opinion Among American Elected Officials: Results from Two Field Experiments pp. 1792-1800

Joshua L. Kalla and Ethan Porter

Volume 51, month July, 2021

The British Academy Brian Barry Prize Essay Why Is There No Just Riot Theory? pp. 909-923

Jonathan Havercroft

Terror, Hate and the Demands of Counter-Speech pp. 924-939

Jeffrey W. Howard

Keeping Friends Close, But Enemies Closer: Foreign Aid Responses to Natural Disasters pp. 940-962

Cindy Cheng and Shahryar Minhas

(A)Political Constituency Development Funds: Evidence from Pakistan pp. 963-980

Rabia Malik

Rebels, Revenue and Redistribution: The Political Geography of Post-Conflict Power-Sharing in Africa pp. 981-1001

Felix Haass and Martin Ottmann

War Makes the Regime: Regional Rebellions and Political Militarization Worldwide pp. 1002-1023

Ferdinand Eibl, Steffen Hertog and Dan Slater

Wartime Violence and Post-War Women's Representation pp. 1024-1039

Dino Hadzic and Margit Tavits

The Cultural Sources of the Gender Gap in Voter Turnout pp. 1040-1061

Ruth Dassonneville and Filip Kostelka

Racial Attitudes Through a Partisan Lens pp. 1062-1079

Andrew M. Engelhardt

Deprivation in the Midst of Plenty: Citizen Polarization and Political Protest pp. 1080-1096

John D. Griffin, Chad Kiewiet de Jonge and Vania Ximena Velasco-Guachalla

The Role of Child Perception and Motivation in Political Socialization pp. 1097-1118

Peter K. Hatemi and Christopher Ojeda

Material Interests, Identity and Linked Fate in Three Countries pp. 1119-1137

Michael J. Donnelly

The Trump Effect: An Experimental Investigation of the Emboldening Effect of Racially Inflammatory Elite Communication pp. 1138-1159

Benjamin Newman, Jennifer L. Merolla, Sono Shah, Danielle Casarez Lemi, Loren Collingwood and S. Karthick Ramakrishnan

A Populist Paradox? How Brexit Softened Anti-Immigrant Attitudes pp. 1160-1180

Cassilde Schwartz, Miranda Simon, David Hudson and Jennifer van-Heerde-Hudson

Depolarization, Repolarization and Redistributive Ideological Change in Britain, 1983–2016 pp. 1181-1202

Gidon Cohen and Sarah Cohen

Party Institutionalization and Welfare State Development pp. 1203-1229

Magnus B. Rasmussen and Carl Henrik Knutsen

Education and Attitudes toward Redistribution in the United States pp. 1230-1250

John G. Bullock

How Political Contestation Over Judicial Nominations Polarizes Americans’ Attitudes Toward the Supreme Court pp. 1251-1269

Jon C. Rogowski and Andrew R. Stone

Silencing Their Critics: How Government Restrictions Against Civil Society Affect International ‘Naming and Shaming’ pp. 1270-1291

Hannah Smidt, Dominic Perera, Neil J. Mitchell and Kristin M. Bakke

Elite Communication and the Popular Legitimacy of International Organizations pp. 1292-1313

Lisa M. Dellmuth and Jonas Tallberg

Elite Communication and the Popular Legitimacy of International Organizations – CORRIGENDUM pp. 1314-1314

Lisa M. Dellmuth and Jonas Tallberg

More Accurate, But No Less Polarized: Comparing the Factual Beliefs of Government Officials and the Public pp. 1315-1322

Nathan Lee, Brendan Nyhan, Jason Reifler and D. J. Flynn

More Accurate, But No Less Polarized: Comparing the Factual Beliefs of Government Officials and the Public – CORRIGENDUM pp. 1323-1323

Nathan Lee, Brendan Nyhan, Jason Reifler and D. J. Flynn

Citizen Evaluations of Legislator–Constituent Communication pp. 1324-1331

Mia Costa

Global Racist Contagion Following Donald Trump's Election pp. 1332-1339

Marco Giani and Pierre-Guillaume Méon

Does Electing Extremist Parties Increase Violence and Intolerance? pp. 1340-1347

Nicholas Kuipers, Gareth Nellis and Michael Weaver

Popular Support for Environmental Protection: A Life-Cycle Perspective pp. 1348-1355

Benny Geys, Tom-Reiel Heggedal and Rune J. Sørensen

How Do Observers Assess Resolve? – CORRIGENDUM pp. 1356-1356

Joshua D Kertzer, Jonathan Renshon and Keren Yarhi-Milo

Volume 51, month April, 2021

The Political Legacy of Violence During China's Cultural Revolution pp. 463-487

Yuhua Wang

Violence on Many Sides: Framing Effects on Protest and Support for Repression pp. 488-506

Pearce Edwards and Daniel Arnon

Military Aid, Regime Vulnerability and the Escalation of Political Violence pp. 507-525

Andrew Boutton

Ruling Parties in Authoritarian Regimes: Rethinking Institutional Strength pp. 526-540

Anne Meng

How State Capacity Helps Autocrats win Elections pp. 541-558

Merete Bech Seeberg

Don't Call It a Comeback: Autocratic Ruling Parties After Democratization pp. 559-583

Michael K. Miller

Principled or Pragmatic? Morality Politics in Direct Democracy pp. 584-603

Céline Colombo

Reconsidering Tolerance: Insights From Political Theory and Three Experiments pp. 604-623

Calvert W. Jones and Teresa M. Bejan

Negativity Bias: The Impact of Framing of Immigration on Welfare State Support in Germany, Sweden and the UK pp. 624-645

Sabina Avdagic and Lee Savage

Incumbent Tenure Crowds Out Economic Voting pp. 646-665

Martin Vinæs Larsen

When Deliberation Produces Persuasion rather than Polarization: Measuring and modeling Small Group Dynamics in a Field Experiment pp. 666-684

Kevin M. Esterling, Archon Fung and Taeku Lee

Escaping the Disengagement Dilemma: Two Field Experiments on Motivating Citizens to Report on Public Services pp. 685-705

Mark T. Buntaine, Daniel L. Nielson and Jacob T. Skaggs

Stuck in the middle: Ideology, valence and the electoral failures of centrist parties pp. 706-723

Roi Zur

Why Local Party Leaders Don't Support Nominating Centrists pp. 724-749

David E. Broockman, Nicholas Carnes, Melody Crowder-Meyer and Christopher Skovron

The Effects of Female Leadership on Women's Voice in Political Debate pp. 750-771

Jack Blumenau

The Political Dynamics of Portfolio Design in European Democracies pp. 772-787

Ulrich Sieberer, Thomas M. Meyer, Hanna Bäck, Andrea Ceron, Albert Falcó-Gimeno, Isabelle Guinaudeau, Martin Ejnar Hansen, Kristoffer Kolltveit, Tom Louwerse, Wolfgang C. Müller and Thomas Persson

The Politics of Procedural Choice: Regulating Legislative Debate in the UK House of Commons, 1811–2015 pp. 788-806

Niels D. Goet

Media's Influence on LGBTQ Support Across Africa pp. 807-826

Stephen Winkler

The Political Morality of School Composition: The Case of Religious Selection pp. 827-844

Matthew Clayton, Andrew Mason, Adam Swift and Ruth Wareham

Muslim Trade and City Growth Before the Nineteenth Century: Comparative Urbanization in Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia pp. 845-868

Lisa Blaydes and Christopher Paik

Do Political Finance Reforms Reduce Corruption? pp. 869-889

Calla Hummel, John Gerring and Thomas Burt

Ethics in Elite Experiments: A Perspective of Officials and Voters pp. 890-898

Elin Naurin and Patrik Öhberg

Directing Compliance? Remedial Approach and Compliance with European Court of Human Rights Judgments pp. 899-907

Øyvind Stiansen

Volume 51, month January, 2021

The British Academy Brian Barry Prize Essay: Representing the Future: The Interests of Future Persons in Representative Democracy pp. 1-15

Andre Santos Campos

Adapt or Perish? How Parties Respond to Party System Saturation in 21 Western Democracies, 1945–2011 pp. 16-38

Marc van de Wardt and Arjen van Witteloostuijn

Adapt or Perish? How Parties Respond to Party System Saturation in 21 Western Democracies, 1945–2011 – CORRIGENDUM pp. 39-39

Marc van de Wardt and Arjen van Witteloostuijn

Reconceptualizing Dimensions of Political Competition In Europe: A Demand-side Approach pp. 40-59

Jonathan Wheatley and Fernando Mendez

Vote Expectations Versus Vote Intentions: Rival Forecasting Strategies pp. 60-67

Andreas E. Murr, Mary Stegmaier and Michael S. Lewis-Beck

How to Close the Gender Gap in Political Participation: Lessons from Matrilineal Societies in Africa pp. 68-92

Amanda Lea Robinson and Jessica Gottlieb

Conceptions of National Identity and Ambivalence towards Immigration pp. 93-114

Emmy Lindstam, Matthias Mader and Harald Schoen

‘Why Do You Ask?’ The Nature and Impacts of Attitudes towards Public Opinion Surveys in the Arab World pp. 115-136

Justin J. Gengler, Mark Tessler, Russell Lucas and Jonathan Forney

Beyond Positive and Negative: New Perspectives on Feedback Effects in Public Opinion on the Welfare State pp. 137-162

Marius R Busemeyer, Aurélien Abrassart and Roula Nezi

Trends in Public Support for Welfare Spending: How the Economy Matters pp. 163-180

Christopher Wlezien and Stuart Soroka

In the Shadow of Conflict: How Emotions, Threat Perceptions and Victimization Influence Foreign Policy Attitudes pp. 181-202

A. Kupatadze and T. Zeitzoff

High-Profile Criminal Violence: Why Drug Cartels Murder Government Officials and Party Candidates in Mexico pp. 203-229

Guillermo Trejo and Sandra Ley

Systematic Measurement Error in Election Violence Data: Causes and Consequences pp. 230-252

Inken von Borzyskowski and Michael Wahman

Development or Rent Seeking? How Political Influence Shapes Public Works Provision in India pp. 253-274

Anjali Thomas

Crazy Like a Fox? Are Leaders with Reputations for Madness More Successful at International Coercion? pp. 275-293

Roseanne W. McManus

Crazy Like a Fox? Are Leaders with Reputations for Madness More Successful at International Coercion? - CORRIGENDUM pp. 294-307

Roseanne W. McManus

How Do Observers Assess Resolve? pp. 308-330

Joshua D Kertzer, Jonathan Renshon and Keren Yarhi-Milo

Electoral Cycles in Government Policy Making: Strategic Timing of Austerity Reform Measures in Western Europe pp. 331-352

Daniel Strobl, Hanna Bäck, Wolfgang C. Müller and Mariyana Angelova

Contingent Advantage? Sovereign Borrowing, Democratic Institutions and Global Capital Cycles pp. 353-373

Cameron Ballard-Rosa, Layna Mosley and Rachel L Wellhausen

Redistribution and the Quality of Government: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe pp. 374-393

Bilyana Petrova

Economic Sanctions and Government Spending Adjustments: The Case of Disaster Preparedness pp. 394-411

Elena V McLean and Taehee Whang

Multilevel Analysis with Few Clusters: Improving Likelihood-Based Methods to Provide Unbiased Estimates and Accurate Inference pp. 412-426

Martin Elff, Jan Paul Heisig, Merlin Schaeffer and Susumu Shikano

Voters Punish Politicians with Depression pp. 427-436

Peter John Loewen and Ludovic Rheault

Do Voters Benchmark Economic Performance? pp. 437-449

Vincent Arel-Bundock, André Blais and Ruth Dassonneville

Benchmarking across Borders: An Update and Response pp. 450-453

Mark A Kayser and Michael Peress

Comment on Elff et al pp. 454-459

Daniel Stegmueller

Rejoinder to Daniel Stegmueller's Comments pp. 460-462

Martin Elff, Jan Paul Heisig, Merlin Schaeffer and Susumu Shikano