Journal of Theoretical Politics

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Volume 33, issue 4, 2021

The limits of information revelation in multilateral negotiations: A theory of treatymaking pp. 399-429

James D. Morrow and Kevin L. Cope

On the separation of executive and legislative powers: Executive independence, liberty, and social welfare pp. 430-454

Justin Fox and Mattias K Polborn

Solving the guardianship dilemma by war pp. 455-474

Jacque Gao

Axioms for defeat in democratic elections pp. 475-524

Wesley H. Holliday and Eric Pacuit

Volume 33, issue 3, 2021

Biased politicians and independent agencies pp. 279-299

Amy Pond

Poor people’s beliefs and the dynamics of clientelism pp. 300-332

Miquel Pellicer, Eva Wegner, Lindsay J. Benstead and Ellen Lust

Separation of powers with ideological parties pp. 333-382

Alvaro Forteza and Juan Pereyra

Indirect accountability of political appointees pp. 383-396

Christopher Li

Volume 33, issue 2, 2021

Electoral competition in the presence of identity politics pp. 169-197

Leyla D. Karakas and Devashish Mitra

Sanctions and incentives to repudiate external debt pp. 198-224

Carlo de Bassa, Edoardo Grillo and Francesco Passarelli

Skill, power and marginal contribution in committees pp. 225-235

Ruth Ben-Yashar, Shmuel Nitzan and Tomoya Tajika

Violence, coercion, and settler colonialism pp. 236-273

Chelsea A. Pardini and Ana Espinola-Arredondo

Erratum to ‘Don’t hatch the messenger? On the desirability of restricting the political activity of bureaucrats’ pp. 274-276

Jean Guillaume Forand and Gergely Ujhelyi

Volume 33, issue 1, 2021

A model of electoral alliances in highly fragmented party systems pp. 3-24

Marcelo de C Griebeler and Roberta Carnelos Resende

Group cooperation against a hegemon pp. 25-55

Guillaume Cheikbossian

Schooling, nation building and industrialization pp. 56-94

Esther Hauk and Javier Ortega

Don’t hatch the messenger? On the desirability of restricting the political activity of bureaucrats pp. 95-139

Jean Guillaume Forand and Gergely Ujhelyi

The stability of multi-level governments pp. 140-166

Enriqueta Aragonès and Clara Ponsatí

Volume 32, issue 4, 2020

Security in the absence of a state: Traditional authority, livestock trading, and maritime piracy in northern Somalia pp. 497-537

Avidit Acharya, Robin Harding and J. Andrew Harris

Power transfers, military uncertainty, and war pp. 538-556

William Spaniel

Should I stay or should I go? British voter you got to let me know! Prime Ministers, intra-party conflict, and membership referendums in the British Westminster model pp. 557-581

Thomas König and Xiao Lu

Social conflict, property rights, and the capital–labor split pp. 582-604

Christodoulos Stefanadis

The politics of fiscal federalism: Building a stronger decentralization theorem pp. 605-639

Raúl A. Ponce-Rodríguez, Charles Hankla, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Eunice Heredia-Ortiz

Corrigendum pp. 640-640

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Volume 32, issue 3, 2020

Editors’ introduction to JTP issue 32(3) pp. 363-365

Torun Dewan and John W Patty

When strategic uninformed abstention improves democratic accountability pp. 366-388

Gento Kato

Strategic candidacy for political compromise in party politics pp. 389-408

Akifumi Ishihara

Cults of personality, preference falsification, and the dictator’s dilemma pp. 409-434

Charles Crabtree, Holger L Kern and David A Siegel

A majoritarian basis for judicial countermajoritarianism pp. 435-459

James R. Rogers and Joseph Daniel Ura

Authoritarian election as an incentive scheme pp. 460-493

Hao Hong and Tsz-Ning Wong

Volume 32, issue 2, 2020

Editors’ introduction pp. 185-187

Torun Dewan and John W Patty

Subpoena power and informational lobbying pp. 188-234

Arnaud Dellis and Mandar Oak

War and diplomacy on the world stage: Crisis bargaining before third parties pp. 235-261

Scott Wolford

Delegation and political turnover pp. 262-288

Greg Sasso

Legislative bargaining and partisan delegation pp. 289-311

Thomas Choate, John Weymark and Alan E Wiseman

Military conscription, external security, and income inequality: The missing link pp. 312-347

Nikitas Konstantinidis

Parties, agendas, and roll rates pp. 348-359

Shawn Patterson and Thomas Schwartz

Volume 32, issue 1, 2020

Revisiting electoral personalism pp. 3-10

José Antonio Cheibub and Monika Nalepa

Who wins preference votes? An analysis of party loyalty, ideology, and accountability to voters pp. 11-35

Olle Folke and Johanna Rickne

The personal vote and party cohesion: Modeling the effects of electoral rules on intraparty politics pp. 36-69

Royce Carroll and Monika Nalepa

Preference vote and intra-party competition in open list PR systems pp. 70-95

José Antonio Cheibub and Gisela Sin

Voting behavior under proportional representation pp. 96-111

Peter Buisseret and Carlo Prato

Public goods equilibria under closed- and open-list proportional representation pp. 112-142

Daniel M Kselman

Party, candidate, and voter incentives under free list proportional representation pp. 143-167

Thomas Mustillo and John Polga-Hecimovich

Challenging the wisdom on preferential proportional representation pp. 168-182

Carol Mershon

Volume 31, issue 4, 2019

Editor’s Introduction to JTP issue 31.4 pp. 477-479

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A global game of diplomacy pp. 480-506

Matt Malis and Alastair Smith

Persuading policy-makers pp. 507-542

Christian Salas

The design of enforcement: Collective action and the enforcement of international law pp. 543-567

Leslie Johns

Accessing the state: Executive constraints and credible commitment in dictatorship pp. 568-599

Anne Meng

Plausible deniability pp. 600-625

Joshua A Strayhorn

Strategic Ambiguity with Probabilistic Voting pp. 626-641

Yasushi Asako

Why differentiated integration is such a common practice in Europe: A rational explanation pp. 642-659

Katharina Holzinger and Jale Tosun

Collective risk social dilemma and the consequences of the US withdrawal from international climate negotiations pp. 660-676

Oleg Smirnov

Presidential action and the Supreme Court: The case of signing statements pp. 677-698

Sharece Thrower

Volume 31, issue 3, 2019

Editors’ Introduction to JTP issue 31.3 pp. 283-285

Torun Dewan and John W Patty

Strategic promotion, reputation, and responsiveness in bureaucratic hierarchies pp. 286-307

Xinyu Fan and Feng Yang

Competing signals in the judicial hierarchy pp. 308-329

Joshua A Strayhorn

Terrorism prevention with reelection concerns and valence competition pp. 330-369

Haritz Garro

The efficacy of cheap talk in collective action problems pp. 370-402

Brenton Kenkel

Lobbying dynamics pp. 403-452

David P Baron

What are the effects of entry of new extremist parties on the policy platforms of mainstream parties? pp. 453-473

Samuel Merrill and Bernard Grofman

Volume 31, issue 2, 2019

Editors’ Introduction to JTP issue 31.2 pp. 129-131

Torun Dewan and John W Patty

Organizing evaluation: Assessing combat leadership quality pp. 132-155

William A. Wagstaff

Motivating political support with group-based rewards pp. 156-182

Alastair Smith and Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

Dissolution power, confidence votes, and policymaking in parliamentary democracies pp. 183-208

Michael Becher

A dynamic model of party membership and ideologies pp. 209-243

Bilge Öztürk Göktuna

A spatial valence model of political participation in China pp. 244-259

Jason Y Wu

What is opposition good for? pp. 260-280

Betul Demirkaya

Volume 31, issue 1, 2019

Editors’ Introduction to JTP issue 31.1 pp. 3-5

Torun Dewan and John W Patty

Partisan strength and legislative bargaining pp. 6-45

Thomas Choate, John Weymark and Alan E Wiseman

The superdominance relation, the positional winner, and more missing links between Borda and Condorcet pp. 46-65

Raúl Pérez-Fernández and Bernard De Baets

Incentives for progressive income taxation pp. 66-102

M. Socorro Puy

Fear and citizen coordination against dictatorship pp. 103-125

Abraham Aldama, Mateo Vásquez-Cortés and Lauren Elyssa Young