Journal of Theoretical Politics

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Volume 27, issue 4, 2015

The welfare effects of minority-protective judicial review pp. 499-521

Justin Fox and Matthew C Stephenson

Social networks, ethnic diversity, and cooperative behavior in rural Malawi pp. 522-543

Kim Yi Dionne

(Don’t) Make My Vote Count pp. 544-569

Marco Faravelli and Santiago Sánchez-Pagés

Political conflicts, the role of opposition parties, and the limits on taxation pp. 570-587

Stephane Wolton

Learning from others: an experimental test of Brownian motion uncertainty models pp. 588-612

David Glick and C Daniel Myers

Campaign promises as an imperfect signal: How does an extreme candidate win against a moderate candidate? pp. 613-649

Yasushi Asako

Predicting majority rule: Evaluating the uncovered set and the strong point pp. 650-672

Jacob Bower-Bir, William Bianco, Nicholas D’Amico, Christopher Kam, Itai Sened and Regina Smyth

Legislative organization and ideal-point bias pp. 673-703

Keith Krehbiel and Zachary Peskowitz

Volume 27, issue 3, 2015

Open primaries and crossover voting pp. 351-379

Seok-ju Cho and Insun Kang

The overvaluing of expertise in discussion partner choice pp. 380-400

T.K. Ahn and John Barry Ryan

Self-enforcing clientelism pp. 401-427

Jorge Gallego

Buying votes with imperfect local knowledge and a secret ballot pp. 428-456

Miguel R Rueda

Public pensions and the intergenerational politics of aging societies pp. 457-484

Robert Grafstein

Handicaps to improve reputation pp. 485-496

Amihai Glazer

Volume 27, issue 2, 2015

When and how can unilateral policies promote the international diffusion of environmental policies and clean technology? pp. 177-205

Thomas Hale and Johannes Urpelainen

Vacancies, vetting, and votes: A unified dynamic model of the appointments process pp. 206-236

Gary E Hollibaugh

Conflict bargaining as a signal to third parties pp. 237-268

John Tyson Chatagnier

Electoral geography and redistributive politics pp. 269-287

Karen L Jusko

Strategic ambiguity about military capacity with multiple adversaries pp. 288-300

Patrick Hummel

Putting path dependence in its place: toward a Taxonomy of institutional change pp. 301-323

Thomas Rixen and Lora Anne Viola

A strategic theory of international environmental assistance pp. 324-347

Elena V McLean

Volume 27, issue 1, 2015

Thirty years after Roemer’s General Theory pp. 3-7

Gilbert Skillman

Exploitation in economies with heterogeneous preferences, skills and assets: An axiomatic approach pp. 8-33

Roberto Veneziani and Naoki Yoshihara

On the problem of socialist economic design pp. 34-42

John Roemer

The fragility of deterrence in conflicts pp. 43-57

Philipp Denter and Dana Sisak

Voting systems and strategic manipulation: An experimental study pp. 58-85

Anna Bassi

Combining ideological and policy distances with valence for a model of party competition in Germany 2009 pp. 86-107

Anna-Sophie Kurella and Franz Urban Pappi

Crisis bargaining, domestic opposition, and tragic wars pp. 108-131

Philip Arena

Bringing the minority back to the party: An informational theory of majority and minority parties in Congress pp. 132-150

Adam Ramey

Federal employee unionization and presidential control of the bureaucracy: Estimating and explaining ideological change in executive agencies pp. 151-174

Jowei Chen and Tim Johnson

Volume 26, issue 4, 2014

The role of oversight committees in closed rule legislation pp. 521-547

Wim Van Gestel and Christophe Crombez

Modeling the electoral dynamics of party polarization in two-party legislatures pp. 548-572

Samuel Merrill, Bernard Grofman and Thomas L Brunell

Local public goods as vote-purchasing devices? Persuasion and mobilization in the choice of clientelist payments pp. 573-598

Guillermo Rosas, Noel P Johnston and Kirk Hawkins

A strategic theory of effective monitoring arrangements for international institutions pp. 599-628

Thania Sanchez and Johannes Urpelainen

Capitalist exploitation without capitalist production: The consequences of imperfect contracting pp. 629-652

Gilbert Skillman

The facets of exploitation pp. 653-676

Marc Fleurbaey

Motivating operatives for suicide missions and conventional terrorist attacks pp. 677-695

Daniel Arce and Kevin Siqueira

Volume 26, issue 3, 2014

Narrow versus broad judicial decisions pp. 355-383

Justin Fox and Georg Vanberg

The social brain paradigm and social norm puzzles pp. 384-404

Marcus Holmes and Costas Panagopoulos

Anti-terrorism policies and the risk of provoking pp. 405-441

Franz Dietrich

Polls, coalitions and strategic voting under proportional representation pp. 442-467

Michael Herrmann

Depth versus rigidity in the design of international trade agreements pp. 468-495

Leslie Johns

Executive appointments: Duration, ideology, and hierarchy pp. 496-517

Fang-Yi Chiou and Lawrence S Rothenberg

Volume 26, issue 2, 2014

International policy diffusion at the systemic level: Linking micro patterns to macro dynamism pp. 177-196

Taku Yukawa, Iku Yoshimoto and Susumu Yamakage

Natural resources and institutional development pp. 197-221

David Wiens

Veto players and policy adaptability: An intertemporal perspective pp. 222-248

Mariano Tommasi, Carlos Scartascini and Ernesto Stein

Yesterday’s heroes, today’s villains: Ideology, corruption, and democratic performance pp. 249-282

Daniel W Gingerich

Reform or revolution? Theory and evidence on the role of the middle class in the rise of universal male suffrage pp. 283-311

Tianyang Xi

Supermajority voting, social indifference and status quo constraints pp. 312-330

Reuben Kline

Change in parliamentary party systems and policy outcomes: Hunting the core pp. 331-351

Carol Mershon and Olga Shvetsova

Volume 26, issue 1, 2014

Knowing one’s future preferences: A correlated agent model with Bayesian updating pp. 3-34

Muhammet Bas, Curtis S Signorino and Taehee Whang

Linear and quadratic utility loss functions in voting behavior research pp. 35-58

Shane Singh

An institutional remedy for ethnic patronage politics pp. 59-78

T Clark Durant and Michael Weintraub

Lobbying for wealth redistribution by changing the social planner’s preferences pp. 79-92

Mingli Zheng

Intra-party dynamics in mixed-member electoral systems: How strategies of candidate selection impact parliamentary behaviour pp. 93-116

Annika Hennl

Exit polls and voter turnout pp. 117-134

Asger Lau Andersen and Thomas Jensen

The selection and signaling effects of third-party intervention pp. 135-157

Yukari Iwanami

Street-level charity: Beggars, donors, and welfare policies pp. 158-174

Cristian Pérez Muñoz and Joshua D Potter