Journal of Theoretical Politics

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Volume 30, issue 4, 2018

Editors’ Introduction to JTP issue 30.4 pp. 385-387

Torun Dewan and John W Patty

Rivalry among agents seeking large budgets pp. 388-409

Kimiko Terai and Amihai Glazer

Crises, investments, and political institutions pp. 410-430

Per F Andersson and Johannes Lindvall

What resource curse? The null effect of remittances on public good provision pp. 431-450

Desiree Desierto

Signature requirements for initiatives pp. 451-476

Tomoya Tajika

Simultaneous and sequential voting under general decision rules pp. 477-488

Friedel Bolle

Volume 30, issue 3, 2018

Editors’ Introduction to JTP issue 30.3 pp. 269-271

Torun Dewan and John W. Patty

Directional equilibria pp. 272-305

Hun Chung and John Duggan

Centripetal and centrifugal incentives in mixed-member proportional systems pp. 306-334

Anna-Sophie Kurella, Thomas Bräuninger and Franz Urban Pappi

A model of electoral competition between national and regional parties pp. 335-357

Mihir Bhattacharya

Multiwinner approval rules as apportionment methods pp. 358-382

Markus Brill, Jean-François Laslier and Piotr Skowron

Volume 30, issue 2, 2018

Editors’ Introduction to JTP issue 30.2 pp. 181-183

Torun Dewan and John W. Patty

‘Sons of the soil’: A model of assimilation and population control pp. 184-223

Avidit Acharya, David D Laitin and Anna Zhang

‘Strong’ states and strategic governance: A model of territorial variation in state presence pp. 224-245

Jessica Steinberg

Attract voters or appease activists? Opposition parties’ dilemma and party policy change pp. 246-266

Florence So

Volume 30, issue 1, 2018

Editors’ introduction pp. 3-5

Torun Dewan and John W Patty

Clarity or collaboration: Balancing competing aims in bureaucratic design pp. 6-44

Christopher Carrigan

The electoral strategies of a populist candidate: Does charisma discourage experience and encourage extremism? pp. 45-73

Gilles Serra

Elections and durable governments in parliamentary governments pp. 74-118

David P Baron

Mediation in the shadow of an audience: How third parties use secrecy and agenda-setting to broker settlements pp. 119-146

Shawn L. Ramirez

Power-sharing ‘discontinuities’: Legitimacy, rivalry, and credibility pp. 147-177

Saurabh Pant

Erratum pp. 178-178

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Volume 29, issue 4, 2017

Editors’ introduction pp. 517-519

David P Baron and John W Patty

Path-dependency and coordination in multi-candidate elections with behavioral voters pp. 520-545

Costel Andonie and Daniel Diermeier

When extremes meet: Redistribution in a multiparty model with differentiated parties pp. 546-577

Konstantinos Matakos and Dimitrios Xefteris

Identity, repression, and the threat of ethnic conflict in a strong state pp. 578-598

Christine S Mele and David A Siegel

On repression and its effectiveness pp. 599-622

Tiberiu Dragu

Representation, sophisticated voting, and the size of the gridlock region pp. 623-646

Myunghoon Kang

Policy bargaining and militarized conflict pp. 647-678

Peter Bils and William Spaniel

Volume 29, issue 3, 2017

More dangerous than dyads: how a third party enables rationalist explanations for war pp. 353-381

Max Gallop

Tariff politics and congressional elections: exploring the Cannon Thesis pp. 382-414

Andrew J Clarke, Jeffery A Jenkins and Kenneth S Lowande

Electoral competition with ideologically biased voters pp. 415-439

Marco Magnani

The hidden cost of direct democracy: How ballot initiatives affect politicians’ selection and incentives pp. 440-466

Carlo Prato and Bruno Strulovici

Qualitative investigation of theoretical models: the value of process tracing pp. 467-491

Peter Lorentzen, M Taylor Fravel and Jack Paine

Higher bars for incumbents and experience pp. 492-513

Hans Gersbach and Markus Müller

Volume 29, issue 2, 2017

Ambition, personalist regimes, and control of authoritarian leaders pp. 167-190

Svetlana Kosterina

Partisan optimism and political bargaining pp. 191-213

Thomas Jensen and Andreas Madum

Are non-competitive elections good for citizens? pp. 214-242

Andrew T Little

Storable votes and judicial nominations in the US Senate pp. 243-272

Alessandra Casella, Sébastien Turban and Gregory Wawro

Bargaining with a biased autocrat pp. 273-298

Colin Krainin and John Slinkman

Group incentives and rational voting1 pp. 299-326

Alastair Smith, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Tom LaGatta

Valence uncertainty and the nature of the candidate pool in elections pp. 327-350

Livio Di Lonardo

Volume 29, issue 1, 2017

May’s theorem in one dimension pp. 3-21

John Duggan

How uncertainty about judicial nominees can distort the confirmation process pp. 22-47

Maya Sen and William Spaniel

Ideology signaling in electoral politics pp. 48-68

Hisashi Sawaki

Working smart and hard? Agency effort, judicial review, and policy precision pp. 69-96

Ian R Turner

Participation and boycott in authoritarian elections pp. 97-123

Gail Buttorff and Douglas Dion

Policy dynamics and electoral uncertainty in the appointments process pp. 124-148

Jinhee Jo, David M Primo and Yoji Sekiya

Now or later? A dynamic analysis of judicial appointments pp. 149-164

Jinhee Jo

Volume 28, issue 4, 2016

Correction to ‘Using genetic information to test causal relationships in cross-sectional data’ pp. 523-524

Brad Verhulst and Ryne Estabrook

Pareto efficiency in the dynamic one-dimensional bargaining model pp. 525-536

Tasos Kalandrakis

Participation and punishment pp. 537-551

C. Daniel Myers

Unanimity overruled: Majority voting and the burden of history pp. 552-597

Klaus Nehring, Marcus Pivato and Clemens Puppe

Components of party polarization in the US House of Representatives pp. 598-624

Thomas L Brunell, Bernard Grofman and Samuel Merrill

Signaling and perception in international crises: Two approaches pp. 625-654

Shuhei Kurizaki

The voter’s blunt tool pp. 655-677

T. Renee Bowen and Cecilia Hyunjung Mo

Party machines and voter-customized rewards strategies pp. 678-701

Rodrigo Zarazaga

Volume 28, issue 3, 2016

Scope and precedent: judicial rule-making under uncertainty pp. 353-384

Tom S Clark

Heresthetics and choice from tournaments pp. 385-407

Scott Moser, Molly Fenn, Ran Ji, Michelle Maiden and Melanie Panosian

Strategic party heterogeneity pp. 408-430

Georgia Kernell

Time constraints and the opportunity costs of oversight pp. 431-460

Joshua A Strayhorn, Clifford J Carrubba and Micheal W Giles

Political autonomy and independence: Theory and experimental evidence pp. 461-496

Klaus Abbink and Jordi Brandts

Simulating policy diffusion through learning: Reducing the risk of false positive conclusions pp. 497-519

Christian Adam

Volume 28, issue 2, 2016

Introduction to the Journal of Theoretical Politics special issue in honor of Norman Schofield pp. 189-191

Elizabeth Maggie Penn

Distributive politics, the electoral connection, and the antebellum US Congress: The case of military service pensions pp. 192-224

Charles J Finocchiaro and Jeffery A Jenkins

Increasing rents and incumbency disadvantage pp. 225-265

Marko Klašnja

An empirical stochastic model of Argentina’s Impossible Game (1955–1966) pp. 266-287

Juan Pablo Micozzi and Sebastián M Saiegh

Do parties converge to the electoral mean in all political systems? pp. 288-330

Maria Gallego and Norman Schofield

Social choice and popular control pp. 331-349

Sean Ingham

Volume 28, issue 1, 2016

Introduction to special issue on Elinor Ostrom and social dilemmas pp. 3-4

Eric A Coleman and Rick K Wilson

Integrating power in institutional analysis: A micro-foundation perspective pp. 5-26

Prakash Kashwan

Common property in the trust game: Experimental evidence from Bulgaria pp. 27-43

Eric A Coleman

Swords without covenants do not lead to self-governance pp. 44-73

Timothy Cason and Lata Gangadharan

Social sanctions and informal accountability: Evidence from a laboratory experiment pp. 74-104

Malte Lierl

Strategic embeddedness and the microfoundations of collective action: A comparative institutional analysis of the rule of law and informal institutions in cooperation games pp. 105-137

Armando Razo

Passive non-participation versus strategic defection in a collective risk social dilemma pp. 138-158

Autumn Bynum, Reuben Kline and Oleg Smirnov

Integrating core concepts from the institutional analysis and development framework for the systematic analysis of policy designs: An illustration from the US National Organic Program regulation pp. 159-185

David P Carter, Christopher M Weible, Saba N Siddiki and Xavier Basurto