British Journal of Political Science

1971 - 2025

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Volume 50, month October, 2020

Party Polarization, Ideological Sorting and the Emergence of the US Partisan Gender Gap pp. 1217-1243

Daniel Q. Gillion, Jonathan M. Ladd and Marc Meredith

Does Social Disagreement Attenuate Partisan Motivated Reasoning? A Test Case Concerning Economic Evaluations pp. 1245-1261

Joshua Robison

Core Political Values and the Long-Term Shaping of Partisanship pp. 1263-1281

Geoffrey Evans and Anja Neundorf

Personnel Politics: Elections, Clientelistic Competition and Teacher Hiring in Indonesia pp. 1283-1305

Jan H Pierskalla and Audrey Sacks

Compulsory Voting: A Defence pp. 1307-1324

Lachlan M Umbers

Beyond Opportunity Costs: Campaign Messages, Anger and Turnout among the Unemployed pp. 1325-1339

S. Erdem Aytaç, Eli Gavin Rau and Susan Stokes

Constrained Presidential Power in Africa? Legislative Independence and Executive Rule Making in Kenya, 1963–2013 pp. 1341-1358

Opalo, Ken Ochieng’

Presidents’ Sex and Popularity: Baselines, Dynamics and Policy Performance pp. 1359-1379

Ryan E Carlin, Miguel Carreras and Gregory J Love

Are Transfer-Dependent Governments More Creditworthy? Reassessing the Fiscal Federal Foundations of Subnational Default Risk pp. 1381-1403

Kyle Hanniman

The Future is a Moving Target: Predicting Political Instability pp. 1405-1417

Drew Bowlsby, Erica Chenoweth, Cullen Hendrix and Jonathan D. Moyer

Risk and Self-Respect pp. 1419-1437

Alice Baderin and Lucy Barnes

The Development of Students’ Engagement in School, Community and Democracy pp. 1439-1457

John B. Holbein, D. Sunshine Hillygus, Matthew A. Lenard, Christina Gibson-Davis and Darryl V. Hill

Revolutionary Homophobia: Explaining State Repression against Sexual Minorities pp. 1459-1480

Joshua Tschantret

Policy Preferences after Crime Victimization: Panel and Survey Evidence from Latin America pp. 1481-1495

Giancarlo Visconti

Does Counter-Attitudinal Information Cause Backlash? Results from Three Large Survey Experiments pp. 1497-1515

Andrew Guess and Alexander Coppock

Does Counter-Attitudinal Information Cause Backlash? Results from Three Large Survey Experiments – CORRIGENDUM pp. 1517-1517

Andrew Guess and Alexander Coppock

What Makes People Worry about the Welfare State? A Three-Country Experiment pp. 1519-1537

Achim Goerres, Rune Karlsen and Staffan Kumlin

Do Islamic State’s Deadly Attacks Disengage, Deter, or Mobilize Supporters? pp. 1539-1559

Joan Barceló and Elena Labzina

Cognitive Biases and Communication Strength in Social Networks: The Case of Episodic Frames pp. 1561-1581

Lene Aarøe and Michael Bang Petersen

Agenda Control and Electoral Success in the US House pp. 1583-1592

David Fortunato and Nathan W Monroe

What the Enemy Knows: Common Knowledge and the Rationality of War pp. 1593-1607

Thomas Chadefaux

Volume 50, month July, 2020

What is Islamophobia? Disentangling Citizens’ Feelings Toward Ethnicity, Religion and Religiosity Using a Survey Experiment pp. 811-828

Marc Helbling and Richard Traunmüller

The Causal Effect of Radical Right Success on Mainstream Parties’ Policy Positions: A Regression Discontinuity Approach pp. 829-847

Tarik Abou-Chadi and Werner Krause

Are All ‘Birthers’ Conspiracy Theorists? On the Relationship Between Conspiratorial Thinking and Political Orientations pp. 849-866

Adam M. Enders, Steven M. Smallpage and Robert N. Lupton

Perceived Discrimination and Political Behavior pp. 867-892

Kassra A.R. Oskooii

Does Media Coverage Drive Public Support for UKIP or Does Public Support for UKIP Drive Media Coverage? pp. 893-910

Justin Murphy and Daniel Devine

Political Leadership in the Media: Gender Bias in Leader Stereotypes during Campaign and Routine Times pp. 911-931

Loes Aaldering and Daphne Joanna Van Der Pas

Does threatening their franchise make registered voters more likely to participate? Evidence from an aborted voter purge pp. 933-954

Daniel R. Biggers and Daniel A. Smith

Investor Rights versus Human Rights: Do Bilateral Investment Treaties Tilt the Scale? pp. 955-977

Cristina Bodea and Fangjin Ye

Setting the Party Agenda: Interest Groups, Voters and Issue Attention pp. 979-1000

Heike Klüver

A Function-Sensitive Approach to the Political Legitimacy of Global Governance pp. 1001-1024

Eva Erman

Launching Revolution: Social Media and the Egyptian Uprising’s First Movers pp. 1025-1045

Killian Clarke and Korhan Kocak

Citizen Duty and the Ethical Power of Communities: Mixed-Method Evidence from East Asia pp. 1047-1065

Aram Hur

Guns or Money? Defense Co-operation and Bilateral Lending as Coevolving Networks pp. 1067-1088

Brandon J Kinne and Jonas B. Bunte

Obstacle to Peace? Ethnic Geography and Effectiveness of Peacekeeping pp. 1089-1109

Jessica Di Salvatore

Review Article: A Structured Review of Semi-Presidential Studies: Debates, Results and Missing Pieces pp. 1111-1136

Jenny Åberg and Thomas Sedelius

Roll-Call Votes in the German Bundestag: A New Dataset, 1949–2013 pp. 1137-1145

Ulrich Sieberer, Thomas Saalfeld, Tamaki Ohmura, Henning Bergmann and Stefanie Bailer

Elections and Uncertain Decisions in Politics: A Survey Experiment with US Municipal Officials pp. 1147-1153

Daniel Mark Butler

Reducing the Cost of Voting: An Evaluation of Internet Voting’s Effect on Turnout pp. 1155-1167

Nicole Goodman and Leah C. Stokes

Electoral Spillovers in an Intertwined World: Brexit Effects on the 2016 Spanish Vote pp. 1169-1174

Agelos Delis, Konstantinos Matakos and Dimitrios Xefteris

Election Ink and Turnout in a Partial Democracy pp. 1175-1191

Karen E. Ferree, Danielle F. Jung, Robert A. Dowd and Clark C. Gibson

When Do You Get Economists as Policy Makers? pp. 1193-1205

Mark Hallerberg and Joachim Wehner

Message Received? Experimental Findings on How Messages about Corruption Shape Perceptions pp. 1207-1215

Caryn Peiffer

Volume 50, month April, 2020

Restraining the Huddled Masses: Migration Policy and Autocratic Survival pp. 403-433

Michael K. Miller and Margaret E. Peters

Corruption and Ideological Voting pp. 435-456

Diana Burlacu

Getting a Hand By Cutting Them Off: How Uncertainty over Political Corruption Affects Violence pp. 457-480

Paul Zachary and William Spaniel

For and Against Brexit: A Survey Experiment of the Impact of Campaign Effects on Public Attitudes toward EU Membership pp. 481-495

Matthew Goodwin, Simon Hix and Mark Pickup

Tones from a Narrowing Race: Polling and Online Political Communication during the 2014 Scottish Referendum Campaign pp. 497-509

Evelyne Brie and Yannick Dufresne

Feudalism, Collaboration and Path Dependence in England’s Political Development pp. 511-533

Gabriel Leon

Are Western-Educated Leaders Less Prone to Initiate Militarized Disputes? pp. 535-566

Joan Barceló

The Liberal Ethics of Non-Interference pp. 567-584

Marco Mariotti and Roberto Veneziani

Pension Returns and Popular Support for Neoliberalism in Post-Pension Reform Latin America pp. 585-620

Andrew Kerner

The Moral Roots of Partisan Division: How Moral Conviction Heightens Affective Polarization pp. 621-640

Kristin N. Garrett and Alexa Bankert

The Behavioral Consequences of Election Outcomes: Evidence From Campaign Contributions pp. 641-652

Nicolas K. Dumas and Kyle Shohfi

Beclouding Party Position as an Electoral Strategy: Voter Polarization, Issue Priority and Position Blurring pp. 653-675

Kyung Joon Han

On the Representativeness of Primary Electorates pp. 677-685

John Sides, Chris Tausanovitch, Lynn Vavreck and Christopher Warshaw

‘Reserved Ratification’: An Analysis of States’ Entry of Reservations Upon Ratification of Human Rights Treaties pp. 687-712

Heather Elko McKibben and Shaina D. Western

Voting Rights and Immigrant Incorporation: Evidence from Norway pp. 713-730

Jeremy Ferwerda, Henning Finseraas and Johannes Bergh

Violence, Empathy and Altruism: Evidence from the Ivorian Refugee Crisis in Liberia pp. 731-755

Alexandra C. Hartman and Benjamin S. Morse

Ethnicity, National Identity and the State: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 757-779

Elliott Green

Rising to the Occasion? Youth Political Knowledge and the Voting Age pp. 781-792

Olof Rosenqvist

When Do the Wealthy Support Redistribution? Inequality Aversion in Buenos Aires pp. 793-805

German Feierherd, Luis Schiumerini and Susan Stokes

Beyond Positive and Negative: New Perspectives on Feedback Effects in Public Opinion on the Welfare State – ERRATUM pp. 807-807

Marius R Busemeyer, Aurélien Abrassart, Spyridoula Nezi and Roula Nezi

The Club Approach: A Gateway to Effective Climate Co-operation? – ERRATUM pp. 809-809

Jon Hovi, Detlef F. Sprinz, Håkon Sælen and Arild Underdal

Volume 50, month January, 2020

Gender, Incumbency and Party List Nominations pp. 1-15

Stephen A. Meserve, Daniel Pemstein and William T. Bernhard

The Strategic Origins of Electoral Authoritarianism pp. 17-44

Michael K. Miller

Oilfields, Mosques and Violence: Is There a Resource Curse in Xinjiang? pp. 45-78

Ji Yeon Hong and Wenhui Yang

Dominant Party Rule, Elections, and Cabinet Instability in African Autocracies pp. 79-101

Alex M. Kroeger

How Do People Evaluate Foreign Aid To ‘Nasty’ Regimes? pp. 103-127

Tobias Heinrich and Yoshiharu Kobayashi

Reciprocity and Public Opposition to Foreign Direct Investment pp. 129-153

Adam S. Chilton, Helen V. Milner and Dustin Tingley

Uncovering High-Level Corruption: Cross-National Objective Corruption Risk Indicators Using Public Procurement Data pp. 155-164

Mihály Fazekas and Gábor Kocsis

Risky Business? Welfare State Reforms and Government Support in Britain and Denmark pp. 165-184

Seonghui Lee, Carsten Jensen, Christoph Arndt and Georg Wenzelburger

Nuanced Accountability: Voter Responses to Service Delivery in Southern Africa pp. 185-215

Daniel de Kadt and Evan S. Lieberman

Ethnic Diversity, Segregation and Ethnocentric Trust in Africa pp. 217-239

Amanda Lea Robinson

Values and Political Predispositions in the Age of Polarization: Examining the Relationship between Partisanship and Ideology in the United States, 1988–2012 pp. 241-260

Robert N. Lupton, Steven M. Smallpage and Adam M. Enders

Coalition Bargaining Duration in Multiparty Democracies pp. 261-280

Alejandro Ecker and Thomas M. Meyer

Who Gets into the Papers? Party Campaign Messages and the Media pp. 281-302

Thomas M. Meyer, Martin Haselmayer and Markus Wagner

Beyond the Hazard Ratio: Generating Expected Durations from the Cox Proportional Hazards Model pp. 303-320

Jonathan Kropko and Jeffrey J. Harden

The Influence of Local Ethnic Diversity on Group-Centric Crime Attitudes pp. 321-343

Frederik Hjorth

How Exposure to Violence Affects Ethnic Voting pp. 345-362

Dino Hadzic, David Carlson and Margit Tavits

Burden Sharing: Income, Inequality and Willingness to Fight pp. 363-379

Christopher J. Anderson, Anna Getmansky and Sivan Hirsch-Hoefler

A Get-Out-the-Vote Experiment on the World’s Largest Participatory Budgeting Vote in Brazil pp. 381-389

Tiago Peixoto, Fredrik M. Sjoberg and Jonathan Mellon

What Makes Parties Adapt to Voter Preferences? The Role of Party Organization, Goals and Ideology pp. 391-401

Daniel Bischof and Markus Wagner