British Journal of Political Science

1971 - 2025

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Volume 47, month October, 2017

The British Academy Brian Barry Prize Essay: An Exit, Voice and Loyalty Model of Politics pp. 719-748

William Roberts Clark, Matt Golder and Sona N. Golder

No Business Like FIRC Business: Foreign-Imposed Regime Change and Bilateral Trade pp. 749-782

Paul Zachary, Kathleen Deloughery and Alexander B. Downes

The Physical Consequences of Fiscal Flexibility: Sovereign Credit and Physical Integrity Rights pp. 783-807

K. Chad Clay and Matthew R. Digiuseppe

Open/Closed List and Party Choice: Experimental Evidence from the UK pp. 809-827

Jack Blumenau, Andrew C. Eggers, Dominik Hangartner and Simon Hix

A Categorization Theory of Spatial Voting: How the Center Divides the Political Space pp. 829-850

Jørgen Bølstad and Elias Dinas

The Party in Time pp. 851-868

Jonathan White

Implementing the Peace: The Aggregate Implementation of Comprehensive Peace Agreements and Peace Duration after Intrastate Armed Conflict pp. 869-892

Madhav Joshi and Jason Michael Quinn

How Democratic Alliances Solve the Power Parity Problem pp. 893-913

Justin Conrad

Re-examining Socialization Theory: How Does Democracy Influence the Impact of Education on Anti-Foreigner Sentiment? pp. 915-938

Jens Peter Frølund Thomsen and Mark Olsen

Cultural Distance and Interstate Conflicts pp. 939-949

Vincenzo Bove and Gunes Gokmen

Volume 47, month July, 2017

The British Academy Brian Barry Prize Essay: Can Religious Norms Undermine Effective Property Rights?: Evidence from Inheritance Rights of Widows in Colonial India pp. 479-499

Parashar Kulkarni

Campaign Perceptions of Electoral Closeness: Uncertainty, Fear and Over-Confidence pp. 501-519

Ryan D. Enos and Eitan D. Hersh

Cultivating Effective Brokers: A Party Leader’s Dilemma pp. 521-543

Edwin Camp

Unity in Diversity? The Development of Political Parties in the Parliament of Canada, 1867–2011 pp. 545-569

Jean-François Godbout and Bjørn Høyland

Knowing More from Less: How the Information Environment Increases Knowledge of Party Positions pp. 571-588

Susan Banducci, Heiko Giebler and Sylvia Kritzinger

Political Orientation, Information and Perceptions of Election Fraud: Evidence from Russia pp. 589-608

Graeme Robertson

The Effect of a Booming Local Economy in Early Childhood on the Propensity to Vote: Evidence from a Natural Experiment pp. 609-629

Henning Finseraas

Political Competition and Ethnic Riots in Democratic Transition: A Lesson from Indonesia pp. 631-651

Risa J. Toha

Commerce and Conflict: New Data about the Great War pp. 653-674

Joanne Gowa and Raymond Hicks

Resolving Civil Wars before They Start: The UN Security Council and Conflict Prevention in Self-Determination Disputes pp. 675-697

Kyle Beardsley, David E. Cunningham and Peter B. White

Repression and Activism among the Arab Spring’s First Movers: Evidence from Morocco’s February 20th Movement pp. 699-718

Adria K. Lawrence

Volume 47, month April, 2017

Rumors and Health Care Reform: Experiments in Political Misinformation pp. 241-262

Adam J. Berinsky

Markets as Mere Means pp. 263-281

Rutger Claassen

A War of (Mis)Information: The Political Effects of Rumors and Rumor Rebuttals in an Authoritarian Country pp. 283-311

Haifeng Huang

Diversity in the News? A Study of Interest Groups in the Media in the UK, Spain and Denmark pp. 313-328

Anne Skorkjær Binderkrantz, Laura Chaqués Bonafont and Darren R. Halpin

Mixed Signals: IMF Lending and Capital Markets pp. 329-349

Terrence Chapman, Songying Fang, Xin Li and Randall W. Stone

Long-Term Consequences of Election Results pp. 351-372

Anthony Fowler and Andrew B. Hall

Electoral Systems, Ethnic Heterogeneity and Party System Fragmentation pp. 373-389

David Lublin

Why Pre-Electoral Coalitions in Presidential Systems? pp. 391-411

Marisa Kellam

Candidate Ethnic Origins and Voter Preferences: Examining Name Discrimination in Local Elections in Britain pp. 413-435

Michael Thrasher, Galina Borisyuk, Colin Rallings and Richard Webber

Democracy by Demand? Reinvestigating the Effect of Self-expression Values on Political Regime Type pp. 437-461

Sirianne Dahlum and Carl Henrik Knutsen

Pitfalls in the Study of Democratization: Testing the Emancipatory Theory of Democracy pp. 463-472

Christian Welzel, Ronald Inglehart and Stefan Kruse

What Counts as Evidence? Panel Data and the Empirical Evaluation of Revised Modernization Theory pp. 473-478

Sirianne Dahlum and Carl Henrik Knutsen

Volume 47, month January, 2017

Autocratic Legislatures and Expropriation Risk pp. 1-17

Matthew Charles Wilson and Joseph Wright

Destined for Democracy? Labour Markets and Political Change in Colonial British America pp. 19-45

Elena Nikolova

Central Bank Independence and Fiscal Policy: Can the Central Bank Restrain Deficit Spending? pp. 47-70

Cristina Bodea and Masaaki Higashijima

Contingent Democratization: When Do Economic Crises Matter? pp. 71-90

Min Tang, Narisong Huhe and Qiang Zhou

Why Does Alejandro Know More about Politics than Catalina? Explaining the Latin American Gender Gap in Political Knowledge pp. 91-112

Marta Fraile and Raul Gomez

Is Belief in Conspiracy Theories Pathological? A Survey Experiment on the Cognitive Roots of Extreme Suspicion pp. 113-129

Scott Radnitz and Patrick Underwood

The Incumbency Bonus Revisited: Causes and Consequences of Media Dominance pp. 131-148

Christoffer Green-Pedersen, Peter B. Mortensen and Gunnar Thesen

Is Proportional Representation More Favourable to the Left? Electoral Rules and Their Impact on Elections, Parliaments and the Formation of Cabinets pp. 149-164

Holger Döring and Philip Manow

Inclusion, Dispersion, and Constraint: Powersharing in the World’s States, 1975–2010 pp. 165-185

Kaare W. Strøm, Scott Gates, Benjamin A.T. Graham and Håvard Strand

Pulling Together: Shared Intentions, Deliberative Democracy and Deeply Divided Societies pp. 187-202

O’Flynn, Ian

Mass Warfare and the Welfare State – Causal Mechanisms and Effects pp. 203-227

Herbert Obinger and Klaus Petersen

Party System Volatility in Post-Communist Europe pp. 229-234

Charles Crabtree and Matt Golder

Little is Known about Party System Volatility in Post-Communist Europe, but We Have Interesting New Methods and Data for Studying It pp. 235-239

Eleanor Neff Powell and Joshua A. Tucker

Volume 46, month October, 2016

Two Logics of Indirect Governance: Delegation and Orchestration pp. 719-729

Kenneth W. Abbott, Philipp Genschel, Duncan Snidal and Bernhard Zangl

Maximizing the Reliability of Cross-National Measures of Presidential Power pp. 731-741

David Doyle and Robert Elgie

Understanding Pre-electoral Coalitions in Central and Eastern Europe pp. 743-761

Raimondas Ibenskas

The Politics of Agency Death: Ministers and the Survival of Government Agencies in a Parliamentary System pp. 763-784

Oliver James, Nicolai Petrovsky, Alice Moseley and George A. Boyne

Party-constrained Policy Responsiveness: A Survey Experiment on Politicians’ Response to Citizen-initiated Contacts pp. 785-797

Patrik Öhberg and Elin Naurin

The Political Conditioning of Subjective Economic Evaluations: The Role of Party Discourse pp. 799-823

Sergi Pardos-Prado and Iñaki Sagarzazu

The Ideological Asymmetry of the American Party System pp. 825-844

Yphtach Lelkes and Paul M. Sniderman

Conflict will Harden your Heart: Exposure to Violence, Psychological Distress, and Peace Barriers in Israel and Palestine pp. 845-859

Sivan Hirsch-Hoefler, Daphna Canetti, Carmit Rapaport and Stevan E. Hobfoll

Measuring the Cost of Privacy: A Look at the Distributional Effects of Private Bargaining pp. 861-889

Jeffrey Kucik and Krzysztof J. Pelc

We Are the World: The U.S. Supreme Court’s Use of Foreign Sources of Law pp. 891-913

Ryan C. Black, Ryan J. Owens and Jennifer L. Brookhart

Justice below the State: Civil Society as a Site of Justice pp. 915-936

Chiara Cordelli

Institutions for the Anthropocene: Governance in a Changing Earth System pp. 937-956

John S. Dryzek

Volume 46, month July, 2016

Does Church Attendance Cause People to Vote? Using Blue Laws’ Repeal to Estimate the Effect of Religiosity on Voter Turnout pp. 481-500

Alan S. Gerber, Jonathan Gruber and Daniel Hungerman

Factories for Votes? How Authoritarian Leaders Gain Popular Support Using Targeted Industrial Policy pp. 501-527

Ji Yeon Hong and Sunkyoung Park

Places and Preferences: A Longitudinal Analysis of Self-Selection and Contextual Effects pp. 529-550

Aina Gallego, Franz Buscha, Patrick Sturgis and Daniel Oberski

Small Differences that Matter: The Impact of Discussion Modalities on Deliberative Outcomes pp. 551-566

Lucio Baccaro, André Bächtiger and Marion Deville

Party Cohesion in Westminster Systems: Inducements, Replacement and Discipline in the House of Commons, 1836–1910 pp. 567-589

Andrew C. Eggers and Arthur Spirling

Ideological Clarity in Multiparty Competition: A New Measure and Test Using Election Manifestos pp. 591-610

James Lo, Sven-Oliver Proksch and Jonathan B. Slapin

Leadership Competition and Disagreement at Party National Congresses pp. 611-632

Zachary Greene and Matthias Haber

Who Responds? Voters, Parties and Issue Attention pp. 633-654

Heike Klüver and Jae-Jae Spoon

Making Promises, Keeping Promises: Democracy, Ratification and Compliance in International Human Rights Law pp. 655-679

Jana von Stein

Kinds of Blue: Diversity in UN Peacekeeping Missions and Civilian Protection pp. 681-700

Vincenzo Bove and Andrea Ruggeri

Inaction Inertia in International Negotiations: The Consequences of Missed Opportunities pp. 701-717

Lesley G. Terris and Orit E. Tykocinski

Volume 46, month April, 2016

Why People Vote: Estimating the Social Returns to Voting pp. 241-264

Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, David Doherty and Conor M. Dowling

Mechanical and Psychological Effects of Electoral Reform pp. 265-279

Jon Fiva and Olle Folke

Policy, Office and Votes: The Electoral Value of Ministerial Office pp. 281-296

Shane Martin

Electoral Institutions and Electoral Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 297-320

Hanne Fjelde and Kristine Höglund

A Two-Stage Theory of Discussant Influence on Vote Choice in Multiparty Systems pp. 321-348

Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck and Julia Partheymüller

The Politics of Financialization in the United States, 1949–2005 pp. 349-370

Christopher Witko

To Link or Not to Link? Agenda Change in International Bargaining pp. 371-393

Heather Elko Mckibben

Judicial Instability and Endogenous Constitutional Change: Lessons from Latin America pp. 395-416

Aníbal Pérez-Liñán and Andrea Castagnola

Niche Party Success and Mainstream Party Policy Shifts – How Green and Radical Right Parties Differ in Their Impact pp. 417-436

Tarik Abou-Chadi

Majorities and Minarets: Religious Freedom and Public Space pp. 437-456

David Miller

A Long Constitution is a (Positively) Bad Constitution: Evidence from OECD Countries pp. 457-478

George Tsebelis and Dominic J. Nardi

A Long Constitution is a (Positively) Bad Constitution: Evidence from OECD Countries – CORRIGENDUM pp. 479-480

George Tsebelis and Dominic J. Nardi

Volume 46, month January, 2016

From Arrow’s Theorem to ‘Dark Matter’ pp. 1-9

Donald G. Saari

Juking the Stats? Authoritarian Information Problems in China pp. 11-29

Jeremy L. Wallace

Cabinet Formation and Portfolio Distribution in European Multiparty Systems pp. 31-43

Josh Cutler, Scott De Marchi, Max Gallop, Florian M. Hollenbach, Michael Laver and Matthias Orlowski

How Socialization Attenuates Tax Competition pp. 45-65

Fabrizio Gilardi and Fabio Wasserfallen

Pocketbook vs. Sociotropic Corruption Voting pp. 67-94

Marko Klašnja, Joshua A. Tucker and Kevin Deegan-Krause

Does Economic Globalization Influence the US Policy Mood?: A Study of US Public Sentiment, 1956–2011* pp. 95-125

Erica Owen and Dennis P. Quinn

Group Entitlement, Anger and Participation in Intergroup Violence pp. 127-148

Christopher Claassen

Citizens and Security Threats: Issues, Perceptions and Consequences Beyond the National Frame pp. 149-175

Daniel Stevens and Nick Vaughan-Williams

Who's Afraid of Conflict? The Mobilizing Effect of Conflict Framing in Campaign News pp. 177-194

Andreas R.T. Schuck, Rens Vliegenthart and Claes H. De Vreese

Media Content and Political Behavior in Observational Research: A Critical Assessment pp. 195-204

Zoltán Fazekas and Erik Gahner Larsen

Matching Theory and Data: Why Combining Media Content with Survey Data Matters pp. 205-213

Andreas R.T. Schuck, Rens Vliegenthart and Claes H. De Vreese

The Origins of Voluntary Compliance: Attitudes toward Taxation in Urban Nigeria pp. 215-238

Cristina Bodea and Adrienne LeBas

The Origins of Voluntary Compliance: Attitudes toward Taxation in Urban Nigeria – CORRIGENDUM pp. 239-240

Cristina Bodea and Adrienne Lebas