British Journal of Political Science

1971 - 2025

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Volume 45, month October, 2015

Three Paths to Constitutionalism – and the Crisis of the European Union pp. 705-714

Bruce Ackerman

Which Democracies Will Last? Coups, Incumbent Takeovers, and the Dynamic of Democratic Consolidation pp. 715-738

Milan W. Svolik

A New Approach to the Study of Parties Entering Government pp. 739-754

Garrett Glasgow and Sona N. Golder

Crafting Mass Partisanship at the Grass Roots pp. 755-775

David Samuels and Cesar Zucco

Legislative Gridlock and Bureaucratic Politics in the European Union pp. 777-797

Dirk Junge, Thomas König and Bernd Luig

Your Place or Mine? Institutional Capture and the Creation of Overlapping International Institutions pp. 799-827

Johannes Urpelainen and Thijs Van de Graaf

A Particular Difference: European Identity and Civilian Targeting pp. 829-851

Tanisha M. Fazal and Brooke C. Greene

Wired Voters: The Effects of Internet Use on Voters’ Electoral Uncertainty pp. 853-881

Laura Sudulich, Matthew Wall and Leonardo Baccini

Candidate Ethnicity and Vote Choice in Britain pp. 883-905

Stephen D. Fisher, Anthony F. Heath, David Sanders and Maria Sobolewska

‘We Don't Do God’? Religion and Party Choice in Britain pp. 907-927

James Tilley

Whose Issue Is It Anyway? A New Look at the Meaning and Measurement of Issue Ownership pp. 929-938

Andrew Therriault

Volume 45, month July, 2015

‘It Isn’t What We Don’t Know that Gives Us Trouble, It’s What We Know that Ain’t So’: Misinformation and Democratic Politics pp. 467-475

Jennifer Hochschild and Katherine Levine Einstein

Legislative Activity and Gridlock in the European Union pp. 477-499

Christophe Crombez and Simon Hix

Democratic Pieces: Autocratic Elections and Democratic Development since 1815 pp. 501-530

Michael K. Miller

The Upside of Accents: Language, Inter-group Difference, and Attitudes toward Immigration pp. 531-557

Daniel J. Hopkins

All Policies Are Glocal: International Environmental Policy Making with Strategic Subnational Governments pp. 559-582

Michael M. Bechtel and Johannes Urpelainen

Easing the Heavy Hand: Humanitarian Concern, Empathy, and Opinion on Immigration pp. 583-607

Benjamin J. Newman, Todd K. Hartman, Patrick L. Lown and Stanley Feldman

Direct and Indirect Representation pp. 609-634

Shigeo Hirano and Michael M. Ting

Jus Post Bellum and the Responsibility to Rebuild pp. 635-661

James Pattison

Parties, Institutions and the Politics of Law and Order: How Political Institutions and Partisan Ideologies Shape Law-and-Order Spending in Twenty Western Industrialized Countries pp. 663-687

Georg Wenzelburger

Education and Political Participation pp. 689-703

Mikael Persson

Volume 45, month April, 2015

The British Academy Brian Barry Prize Essay: Mandatory Citizenship for Immigrants pp. 235-251

Helder De Schutter and Lea Ypi

Reassessing the Links between Regime Type and Economic Performance: Why Some Authoritarian Regimes Show Stable Growth and Others Do Not pp. 253-285

Siddharth Chandra and Nita Rudra

Oil and Autocratic Regime Survival pp. 287-306

Joseph Wright, Erica Frantz and Barbara Geddes

The Political Economy of Prevention pp. 307-327

Ian Gough

Who Caucuses? An Experimental Approach to Institutional Design and Electoral Participation pp. 329-351

Christopher F. Karpowitz and Jeremy C. Pope

Compensation or Constraint? How Different Dimensions of Economic Globalization Affect Government Spending and Electoral Turnout pp. 353-389

John Marshall and Stephen D. Fisher

An ‘A’ for Effort: Experimental Evidence on UN Security Council Engagement and Support for US Military Action in Japan pp. 391-410

Atsushi Tago and Maki Ikeda

When is Good News About Pro-Co-operation Lobbies Good News About Co-operation? pp. 411-433

Stephen Chaudoin and Johannes Urpelainen

Scandal Potential: How Political Context and News Congestion Affect the President's Vulnerability to Media Scandal pp. 435-466

Brendan Nyhan

Volume 45, month January, 2015

Human Rights Institutions, Sovereignty Costs and Democratization pp. 1-27

Emilie M. Hafner-Burton, Edward D. Mansfield and Jon C.W. Pevehouse

Online Social Media and Political Awareness in Authoritarian Regimes pp. 29-51

Ora John Reuter and David Szakonyi

Foreign Aided: Why Democratization Brings Growth When Democracy Does Not pp. 53-71

Jacob Gerner Hariri

The Impact of Campaign Finance Laws on Party Competition pp. 73-95

Joshua D. Potter and Margit Tavits

Explaining Party Positions on Decentralization pp. 97-119

Simon Toubeau and Markus Wagner

The Politics of Fission: An Analysis of Faction Breakaways among Italian Parties (1946–2011) pp. 121-139

Andrea Ceron

The Origins of Patronage Politics: State Building, Centrifugalism, and Decolonization pp. 141-171

Paul D. Kenny

Policy Representation, Social Representation and Class Voting in Britain pp. 173-193

Oliver Heath

Fair's Fair? Principles, Partisanship, and Perceptions of the Fairness of Campaign Rhetoric pp. 195-213

Daniel Stevens, Barbara Allen, John Sullivan and Eric Lawrence

Political Legitimacy in the Real Normative World: The Priority of Morality and the Autonomy of the Political pp. 215-233

Eva Erman and Niklas Möller

Volume 44, month October, 2014

Strategic Behavior and Organizational Structure in Religions pp. 717-739

Donald Wittman

Dynamic Elite Partisanship: Party Loyalty and Agenda Setting in the US House pp. 741-772

René Lindstädt and Ryan J. Vander Wielen

Learning Democracy: Education and the Fall of Authoritarian Regimes pp. 773-797

Howard Sanborn and Clayton L. Thyne

Coups and Democracy pp. 799-825

Nikolay Marinov and Hein Goemans

Why Does the Apple Fall Far from the Tree? How Early Political Socialization Prompts Parent-Child Dissimilarity pp. 827-852

Elias Dinas

Taking the Fight to Them: Neighborhood Human Rights Organizations and Domestic Protest pp. 853-875

Sam R. Bell, Tavishi Bhasin, K. Chad Clay and Amanda Murdie

Does WTO Dispute Settlement Enforce or Inform? pp. 877-902

Thomas Sattler, Gabriele Spilker and Thomas Bernauer

Profitable Participation: Technology Innovation as an Influence on the Ratification of Regulatory Treaties pp. 903-936

Christopher Marcoux and Johannes Urpelainen

Volume 44, month July, 2014

Who Protests in Greece? Mass Opposition to Austerity pp. 487-513

Wolfgang Rüdig and Georgios Karyotis

Beyond Presidentialism and Parliamentarism pp. 515-544

José Antonio Cheibub, Zachary Elkins and Tom Ginsburg

Technology Competition and International Co-operation: Friends or Foes? pp. 545-574

Sung Eun Kim and Johannes Urpelainen

Gaming Democracy: Elite Dominance during Transition and the Prospects for Redistribution pp. 575-603

Michael Albertus and Victor Menaldo

Principals, Agents and Human Rights pp. 605-630

David Cingranelli, Paola Fajardo-Heyward and Mikhail Filippov

The Institutional Turn in Comparative Authoritarianism pp. 631-653

Thomas Pepinsky

Unbundling the Relationship between Authoritarian Legislatures and Political Risk pp. 655-684

Nathan Jensen, Edmund Malesky and Stephen Weymouth

Too Much of a Bad Thing? Civilian Victimization and Bargaining in Civil War pp. 685-706

Reed M. Wood and Jacob D. Kathman

Volume 44, month April, 2014

Correct Voting Across Thirty-Three Democracies: A Preliminary Analysis pp. 239-259

Richard R. Lau, Parina Patel, Dalia F. Fahmy and Robert R. Kaufman

Understanding Parties’ Policy Shifts in Western Europe: The Role of Valence, 1976–2003 pp. 261-286

Michael Clark

Predictably Unpredictable: The Effects of Conflict Involvement on the Error Variance of Vote Models pp. 287-299

Laron K. Williams and David J. Brule

Legislative Effects of Electoral Mandates pp. 301-321

Santiago Olivella and Margit Tavits

Legitimacy and Compliance with International Law: Access to Detainees in Civil Conflicts, 1991–2006 pp. 323-355

Hyeran Jo and Catarina P. Thomson

Does Peacekeeping Work? A Disaggregated Analysis of Deployment and Violence Reduction in the Bosnian War pp. 357-380

Stefano Costalli

State Strategies in Multi-Ethnic Territories: Explaining Variation in the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc pp. 381-408

Sarah Zukerman Daly

The Logic of Pro-Poor Policymaking: Political Entrepreneurship and Mass Education pp. 409-444

Stephen Kosack

Determinants of Upper-Class Dominance in the Heavenly Chorus: Lessons from European Union Online Consultations pp. 445-459

Anne Rasmussen and Brendan J. Carroll

The Insider–Outsider Dilemma pp. 460-475

Johannes Lindvall and David Rueda

Volume 44, month January, 2014

The Ties that Bind: A Network Analysis of Human Rights International Nongovernmental Organizations pp. 1-27

Amanda Murdie

Portfolio Allocation and the Vote of No Confidence* pp. 29-39

Sona N. Golder and Jacquelyn A. Thomas

Social Capital and Voter Turnout: Evidence from Saint's Day Fiestas in Mexico pp. 41-59

Matthew D. Atkinson and Anthony Fowler

Must Europe Be Swiss? On the Idea of a Voting Space and the Possibility of a Multilingual Demos pp. 61-82

Joseph Lacey

Elections, Uncertainty and Irreversible Investment pp. 83-106

Brandice Canes-Wrone and Jee-Kwang Park

What's the Risk? Bilateral Investment Treaties, Political Risk and Fixed Capital Accumulation pp. 107-121

Andrew Kerner and Jane Lawrence

Revisiting Electoral Volatility in Post-Communist Countries: New Data, New Results and New Approaches pp. 123-147

Eleanor Neff Powell and Joshua A. Tucker

When Do Governments Resort to Election Violence? pp. 149-179

Emilie M. Hafner-Burton, Susan D. Hyde and Ryan S. Jablonski

Electoral Institutions and the Emergence of Terrorist Groups pp. 181-204

Deniz Aksoy and David B. Carter

When and Whom to Join: The Expansion of Ongoing Violent Interstate Conflicts pp. 205-238

Kyle A. Joyce, Faten Ghosn and Reşat Bayer