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Claim-Making in Comparative Perspective Everyday Citizenship Practice and Its Consequences
Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner
Cambridge University Press (2024)
White partisans’ reactions to real politicians’ tweets framing white supremacy and radical Islam as terrorist threats
Kirill Zhirkov
Politics, Groups and Identities (2024)
An agent-based framework to study forced migration: A case study of Ukraine
David Leblang
PNAS Nexus (2024)
Hand-Tying through Military Signals in Crisis Bargaining
Todd Sechser
International Studies Quarterly (2024)
Broke Psychoanalysis: In Memory of Harlem's Lafargue Clinic
Kevin Duong
Parapraxis Magazine (2024)
Review Essay: Donald Trump, Charismatic Leadership and the "Deep State"
Sidney Milkis
Political Science Quarterly (2024)
On Research Ethics and Ethical Responsibilities: Facing Up to Sexual Harassment and Assault During Field Research
Carol Mershon
PS: Political Science & Politics (2024)
The Invincible Gender Gap in Political Ambition
Jennifer Lawless
PS: Political Science & Politics (2023)
The Sorcerer's Apprentices of Interwar France
Kevin Duong
History of European Ideas (2023)
The March on Washington Movement, the Fair Employment Practices Committee, and the Long Quest for Racial Justice
Sidney Milkis
Studies in American Political Development (2023)
David Hume and the Politics of Slavery
Danielle Charette
Political Studies (2023)
The Ecology of Nations: American Democracy in a Fragile World Order
John M. Owen, IV
Yale University Press (2023)
Franklin Roosevelt, the "Third New Deal," and the Transformation of Partisanship
Sidney Milkis
Social Science Quarterly (2023)
Passive Corruption: How Institutions Corrupt People
Colin Bird
Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Politica (2023)
The Two Faces of Democracy: Decenteriing Agonism and Deliberation
Stephen K. White
Oxford University Press (2023)
Interpretivism versus Positivism in an Age of Causal Inference
David Waldner
Oxford University Press (2023)
Toni Morrison: Imagining Freedom
Lawrie Balfour
Oxford University Press (2023)
The Ties that Bind: Immigration and the Global Economy
David Leblang
Cambridge University Press (2023)
The Child-Rearing Scale as a Measure of Authoritarianism in a Non-Western Context: Evidence from Mass and Elite Surveys in Russia
Kirill Zhirkov
International Journal of Public Opinion Research (2023)
“What about the Rapists?” The Political Psychology of Women’s Policing Attitudes
Rachel Smilan-Goldstein
Journal of Women, Politics & Policy (2023)
Regulatory Body Shop
Rachel Augustine Potter
Duke Law Review (2023)
Mild Aggressive Behavior and Images of Real-Life Violence
Todd Sechser
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied (2023)
The Politics of Reparations for Black Americans
Lawrie Balfour
Annual Review of Political Science (2023)
The Stability and Growth Pact's "Unusual Events" Clause and the Funding of the Refugee Crisis in the European Union
James D. Savage
International Journal of Public Administration (2023)
Land/Labor Ratios, Citizenship, and Migrants
David Leblang
World Politics (2023)
U.S. Sanctuary Policies and Mexicans’ Migration Preferences: A Conjoint-Experimental Study
Kirill Zhirkov
International Migration Review (2023)
Hostile Sexism, Benevolent Sexism, and American Elections
Nicholas J.G. Winter
Politics & Gender (2022)
Get Out of the Way: Joe Biden, the U.S. Congress, and Executive-Centered Partisanship During the President’s First Year in Office
The Forum (2022)
Domestic Actors and the Limits of Chinese Infrastructure Power: Evidence from Pakistan
Muhammad Tayyab Safdar
Journal of Contemporary Asia (2022)
CGU's Institutional Designs between 2001 and 2016
Beatriz Silva da Costa
E-Legis (2022)
Labor Market Policy as Immigration Control: The Case of Temporary Protected Status
David Leblang
International Studies Quarterly; Volume 66, Issue 3 (2022)
Zero Tolerance
Philip Potter
Cambridge University Press (2022)
Can Biden Prove That Democracy Works?
Luke Schumacher
The National Interest (2022)
Budget Breaker? The Financial Cost of US Military Alliances
Security Studies (2022)
Who Is "On Welfare"? Validating the Use of Conjoint Experiments to Measure Stereotype Content
Kirill Zhirkov
Political Behavior (2022)
A Heavy Hand or a Helping Hand? Information Provision and Citizen Preferences for Anti-Crime Policy in Panama
Daniel Gingerich
Journal of Public Policy (2022)
What Happened to the Vital Center?
Sidney Milkis
Oxford University Press (2022)
Is the Pipeline of Women Running for Office Broken?
Ms Magazine (2022)
CGU's Institutional Designs between 2001 and 2016
Beatriz Silva da Costa
Revista E-Legis (2022)
Violence: Introduction to the Special Issue
Kevin Duong
New Political Science (2022)
Ideology and Foreign Regime Promotion
John M. Owen, IV
Routledge (2022)
Systemic Inequality in the Discipline
Carol Mershon
APSA Website (2022)
The Liberal Paradigm and U.S. Policy in the Indo-Pacific
John M. Owen, IV
Routledge (2022)
The Myth of Ideological Polarization
John M. Owen, IV
Wall Street Journal (2022)
State Building in Crisis Governance: Donald Trump and COVID-19
Sidney Milkis
Political Science Quarterly (2022)
Death and taxes in Machiavelli's Florentine state
Danielle Charette
Manchester University Press (2022)
Social Brokerage: Accountability and the Social Life of Information
Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner
Comparative Political Studies (2022)
Qualitative Causal Inference and Critical Junctures: The Problem of Backdoor Paths
David Waldner
Rowman & Littlefield (2022)
Tempering the Taste for Vengeance: Information About Prisoners and Policy Choices in Chile
Daniel Gingerich
Comparative Political Studies (2022)
Power Sharing and Authoritarian Stability: How Rebel Regimes Solve the Guardianship Dilemma
Anne Meng
American Political Science Review (2022)
The Origins and Consequences of Racialized Schemas about U.S. Parties
Kirill Zhirkov
Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics (2022)
Policing in Patriarchy: An experimental evaluation of reforms to improve police responsiveness to women in India
Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner
Science (2022)
Taking Voice Seriously
Leonard Schoppa
Perspectives on Politics (2022)
Liberal States, Authoritarian Families & Kids in a Liberal Democracy
The Atlantic (2022)
Le potentiel de croissance du Parti québécois: L'envers du vote
Alexis Bibeau-Gagnon
Canadian Journal of Political Science (2022)
Rosa Luxemburg and the Primitive Accumulation of Whiteness
Rowman & Littlefield (2021)
Universal Suffrage as Decolonization
Kevin Duong
American Political Science Review (2021)
Economic distress amidst political success: India’s economic policy under Modi, 2014-2019
John Echeverri-Gent
India Review (2021)
Rethinking the Resource Curse
David Waldner
Cambridge University Press (2021)
Traditional Gender Attitudes, Nativism, and Support for the Radical Right
Politics & Gender (2021)
Comparative Public Budgeting
James D. Savage
Cambridge University Press (2021)
Political Legitimacy, Authoritarianism, and Climate Change
American Political Science Review (2021)
Theorizing "Racial/Colonial Primitive Accumulation": Settler Colonialism, Slavery, and Racial Capitalism
Race & Class (2021)
An Open Collection of Political Science Research with OLS Models and Cross-Sectional Data
The Political Methodologist (2021)
Pandemics and Political Development
Daniel Gingerich
World Politics (2021)
The Guise of Exceptionalism
Robert Fatton, Jr.
Rutgers University Press (2021)
Alliance Participation, Treaty Depth, and Military Spending
International Studies Quarterly (2021)
News Hole: The Demise of Local Journalism and Political Engagement
Jennifer Lawless
Cambridge University Press (2021)
The Effects of Dehumanizing Language on Public Opinion Toward Federal and "For-Profit" Immigrant Detention
Politics, Groups, and Identities (2021)
A unique path of political development: The Confucian dialectic of domestic and international interaction in the history of the Communist Party of China
Brantly Womack
Journal of Contemporary China (2021)
Migrants as Engines of Financial Globalization
David Leblang
International Studies Quarterly (2021)
The Contingent Effects of Sexism in Primary Elections
Jennifer Lawless
Political Research Quarterly (2021)
"To Manipulate American English": Toni Morrison's Word-Work as a Practice of Freedom
Lawrie Balfour
American Quarterly (2021)
Listening to Black Lives Matter: Racial Capitalism and the Critique of Neoliberalism
Contemporary Political Theory (2021)
Taiwan’s continued success requires economic diversification of products and markets
Syaru Shirley Lin
Brookings Institution (2021)
Who Are “the Immigrants”? Beliefs about Immigrant Populations and Anti-Immigration Attitudes in the United States and Britain
Kirill Zhirkov
Social Science Quarterly (2021)
Liberal States, Authoritarian Families
Oxford University Press (2021)
Perceptions of Stereotypically Immigrant Groups as Darker-skinned and Politics of Immigration in the United States and Britain.
Kirill Zhirkov
Politics, Groups, and Identities (2021)
Two Emerging International Orders? China and the United States
John M. Owen, IV
International Affairs (2021)
It’s Not Just China
Syaru Shirley Lin
China Leadership Monitor (2021)
Interpreting Politics
John Echeverri-Gent
Oxford University Press (2021)
Hume's ‘Idea of a Perfect Commonwealth’ and Scottish political thought of the 1790s
Danielle Charette
History of European Ideas (2021)
Great Expectations, Great Grievances: The Politics of Citizens’ Complaints in India
Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner
Comparative Politics (2021)
Why Physical Barriers Backfire
David Leblang
Comparative Political Studies (2021)
Governmental Responses to Terrorism in Autocracies
Philip Potter
British Journal of Political Science (2021)
Why Bad Policies Spread (and Good Ones Don't)
Cambridge University Press (2021)
Freud Sous Les Tropiques
Kevin Duong
Les Cahiers Philosophiques de Strasbourg (2021)
State–Society Synergy at COVID-19’s Invisible Front Lines
Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner
EPW engage (2021)
When Groups Fall Apart
Political Analysis (2021)
Estimating and Using Individual Marginal Component Effects from Conjoint Experiments
Kirill Zhirkov
Political Analysis (2021)
Small Money Donating as Democratic Politics
Jennifer Rubenstein
Perspectives on Politics (2021)
What Socrates Says, and Does Not Say
George Klosko
The Classical Quarterly (2021)
Emerging Technologies and International Stability
Todd Sechser
Routledge (2021)
The Left and Henri Bergson
Kevin Duong
French Politics (2020)
"Preface" in Haiti: International Dilemmas and Failures
Robert Fatton, Jr.
Alameda Casa Editorial (2020)
Survivorship Bias in Comparative Politics
David Waldner
Perspectives on Politics (2020)
Constraining Dictatorship
Anne Meng
Cambridge University Press (2020)
State of the Field: The History of Political Thought
Danielle Charette
History (2020)
"Toni Morrison and the Fugitives' Democracy" in African American Political Thought: A Collected History
Lawrie Balfour
University of Chicago Press (2020)
Situated Knowledge, the Construction of Meaning, and Political Action
John Echeverri-Gent
Oxford University Press (2020)
Party Competition, Personal Votes, and Strategic Disloyalty in the U.S. States
Justin Kirkland
Political Research Quarterly (2020)
Exporting Murder: US Deportations and the Spread of Violence
David Leblang
International Studies Quarterly (2020)
Saudi Arabia plans for its economic future
James D. Savage
British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (2020)
"Preface" Haiti: International Dilemmas and Failures
Alameda Casa Editorial (2020)
What Was Universal Suffrage?
Kevin Duong
Theory & Event 23(1): 29–65 (2020)
Pork Eating is Not a Reasonable Way of Life
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (2020)
Oaths and Political Obligation in Ancient Greece
George Klosko
History of Political Thought (2020)
The Consequences of Personality Biases in Online Panels for Measuring Public Opinion
Kirill Zhirkov
Public Opinion Quarterly (2020)
Political Theory and American Literature: A Guide through the Archive
Danielle Charette
Political Theory (2020)
The Shape of and Solutions to the MTurk Quality Crisis
Nicholas J.G. Winter
Political Science Research and Methods (2020)
Covering the Private Parts: The Post-Crisis (Re-)nationalization of Housing Finance
Herman Mark Schwartz
West European Politics (2020)
The Geography of Citizenship Practice
Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner
Perspectives on Politics 18(4): 1118-1134 (2020)
Intraparty Polarization in American Politics
Kirill Zhirkov
The Journal of Politics (2020)
David Hume's Balancing Act: The Political Discourses and the Sinews of War
Danielle Charette
American Political Science Review (2020)
How women leaders can enhance rulemaking in the Biden administration
Rachel Augustine Potter
Brookings Institution (2020)
Centrism, Political Leadership, and the Future of Indian Politics
John Echeverri-Gent
Oxford University Press (2020)
Vote Secrecy with Diverse Voters
Daniel Gingerich
Comparative Political Studies (2020)
Buying Power: Electoral Strategy Before the Secret Vote
Daniel Gingerich
American Political Science Review (2020)
The Death and Life of Terrorist Networks: How Alliances Help Militants Survive
Philip Potter
Foreign Affairs (2020)
How Empathic Concern Fuels Political Polarization
Justin Kirkland
American Political Science Review (2020)
A Discussion of Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum’s A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy
Lawrie Balfour
Perspectives on Politics (2020)
Gendered (and Racialized) Partisan Polarization
Nicholas J.G. Winter
In Community Wealth Building and the Reconstruction of American Democracy (2020)
"Our Undivided Support: Donald Trump, the Republican Party and Executive-Centered Partisanship" in Dynamics of American Politics: Partisan Polarization, Political Competition and Government Performance
Sidney Milkis
Kansas University Press (2020)
What Effect do Local Political Elites Have on Infant and Child Death? Elected and Chiefly Authority in South Africa
Carol Mershon
Social Science & Medicine (2020)
Fair Play, Reciprocity, and Natural Duties of Justice
George Klosko
Ratio Juris (2020)
Challenging the Wisdom on Preferential Proportional Representation
Carol Mershon
Journal of Theoretical Politics (2020)
Sino-Russian Cooperation against Liberal Hegemony
John M. Owen, IV
International Politics (2020)
Does Transparency Inhibit Political Compromise
Justin Kirkland
American Journal of Political Science (2020)
Winning the Game of Thrones
Journal of Conflict Resolution (2020)
The Policy Response to Declining Fertility Rates in Japan: Relying on Logic and Hope Over Evidence
Leonard Schoppa
Social Science Japan Journal (2020)
The Public's Influence on the U.S. District Courts in Discrimination Cases
Albert Rivero
Justice System (2020)
Emerging Technologies and Strategic Stability in Peacetime, Crisis, and War
Todd Sechser
Journal of Strategic Studies (2019)
Populists at the Polls: Economic, Political, and Social Factors in the 1896 Presidential Election
David Leblang
Research in Economic History (2019)
Lying About Corruption in Surveys: Evidence from a Joint Response Model
Daniel Gingerich
International Journal of Public Opinion Research (2019)
Online coders, open codebooks: New opportunities for content analysis of political communication
Nicholas J.G. Winter
Political Science Research and Methods (2019)
American Hegemony: Intellectual Property Rights, Money, and Infrastructural Power
Herman Mark Schwartz
Review of International Political Economy (2019)
Ruling Parties in Authoritarian Regimes: Rethinking Institutional Strength.
Anne Meng
British Journal of Political Science: 1–15 (2019)
Ballot Reform as Suffrage Restriction: Evidence from Brazil's Second Republic
Daniel Gingerich
American Journal of Political Science (2019)
How Dispositional Empathy Influences Political Ambition
Justin Kirkland
The Journal of Politics (2019)
Traditional authority and bargaining for legitimacy in dual legitimacy systems
Carol Mershon
Journal of Modern African Studies (2019)
No Social Revolution Without Sexual Revolution
Kevin Duong
Political Theory (2019)
Formal Modeling in Social Science
Carol Mershon
University of Michigan Press (2019)
Building a Conservative State: Partisan Polarization and the Redeployment of Administrative Power
Sidney Milkis
Cambridge University Press (2019)
Controlling Immigration?
David Leblang
European Journal of Political Research (2019)
Rivalry and Reform: Presidents, Social Movements and the Transformation of American Politics
Sidney Milkis
University of Chicago Press (2019)
Accessing the State
Anne Meng
Journal of Theoretical Politics (2019)
A Trump Effect? Women and the 2018 Midterm Elections
Jennifer Lawless
The Forum (2019)
Surviving Crises, Catastrophes, and Peace-Keeping Forces in Haiti
Robert Fatton, Jr.
New West Indian Guide (2018)
The European Union budget and the European refugee and migration crises
James D. Savage
OECD Journal on Budgeting (2018)
Police Violence and the Underreporting of Crime
Daniel Gingerich
Economics and Politics (2018)
The Pursuit of Social Welfare: Citizen Claim-Making in Rural India
Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner
World Politics (2018)
Claiming the State: Active Citizenship and Social Welfare in Rural India
Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner
Cambridge University Press (2018)
Nice Girls? Sex, Collegiality, and Bipartisan Cooperation in the U.S. Congress
Jennifer Lawless
Journal of Politics (2018)
Indecision in American Legislatures
Justin Kirkland
University of Michigan Press (2018)
Kennedy’s Keynesian Budgetary Politics and the 1962 Public Works Acceleration Act
Journal of Policy History (2018)
Roll Call Rebels: Strategic Dissent in the United States and United Kingdom
Justin Kirkland
Cambridge University Press (2018)
"Living 'in the Red': Time, Debt, and Justice," in To Shape a New World: The Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lawrie Balfour
Harvard University Press (2018)
A Bargaining Theory of Coercion
Todd Sechser
In Kelly M. Greenhill and Peter Krause, eds., The Power to Hurt: Coercion in Theory and Practice (Oxford University Press) (2018)
Ethnocentrism Reduces Foreign Direct Investment
David Leblang
The Journal of Politics (2018)
International Politics: How History Modifies Theory
John M. Owen, IV
Oxford University Press (2018)
The Decline of Local News and Its Effects: New Evidence from Longitudinal Data
Jennifer Lawless
Journal of Politics (2018)
Reputations and Signaling in Coercive Bargaining
Todd Sechser
Journal of Conflict Resolution (2018)
"Does Democracy End in Terror?" Transformations of Antitotalitarianism in Postwar France
Kevin Duong
Modern Intellectual History (2017)
The Transformation of American Liberalism
George Klosko
Oxford University Press (2017)
The People as a Natural Disaster: Redemptive Violence in Jacobin Political Thought
Kevin Duong
American Political Science Review (2017)
Risky Business: Institutions vs. Social Networks in FDI
David Leblang
Economics and Politics (2017)
Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Diplomacy
Todd Sechser
Cambridge University Press (2017)
Military Technology and Duration of Civil Conflict
Todd Sechser
International Studies Quarterly (2017)
Women on the Run: Gender, Media, and Political Campaigns in a Polarized Era
Jennifer Lawless
Cambridge University Press (2016)
Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment: Globalized Production in the Twenty-First Century
Sonal Pandya
Annual Review of Political Science (2016)
French Roast: International Conflict and Consumer Boycotts-Evidence from Supermarket Scanner Data
Sonal Pandya
Review of Economics and Statistics (2016)
Emergency Claims and Democratic Action
Jennifer Rubenstein
Social Philosophy and Policy (2015)
Between Samaritans and States: The Political Ethics of Humanitarian INGOs
Jennifer Rubenstein
Oxford University Press (2015)
Killing Haitian Democracy
Robert Fatton, Jr.
Jacobin (2015)
Babies across Borders: The Political Economy of International Child Adoption
David Leblang
International Studies Quarterly (2015)
Haiti: Trapped in the Outer Periphery
Robert Fatton, Jr.
Lynne Rienner Publishers (2014)
Trading Spaces
Sonal Pandya
Cambridge University Press (2014)
Democratization and Foreign Direct Investment Liberalization, 1970-2000
Sonal Pandya
International Studies Quarterly (2014)
Signaling Alliance Commitments: Hand-Tying and Sunk Costs in Extended Nuclear Deterrence
Todd Sechser
American Journal of Political Science (2014)
Doctors with borders: occupational licensing as an implicit barrier to high skill migration
David Leblang
Public Choice (2014)
Haiti Trapped in the Outer Periphery
Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc (2013)
Crisis Bargaining and Nuclear Blackmail
Todd Sechser
International Organization (2013)
The Illusion of Democratic Credibility
Todd Sechser
International Organization (2012)
Residential Mobility and Local Civic Engagement in Japan and the United States: Divergent Paths to School
Leonard Schoppa
Comparative Political Studies (2012)
Democracy's Reconstruction: Thinking Politically with W.E.B. Du Bois
Lawrie Balfour
Oxford University Press (2011)
Masculine Republicans and Feminine Democrats: Gender and Americans’ Explicit and Implicit Images of the Political Parties
Nicholas J.G. Winter
Political Behavior (2010)
Goliath's Curse: Coercive Threats and Asymmetric Power
Todd Sechser
International Organization (2010)
Labor Markets and the Demand for Foreign Direct Investment
Sonal Pandya
International Organization (2010)
The Financial Crisis of 2007: Our Waterloo or Take a Chance on IPE?
David Leblang
International Interactions (2009)
Dangerous Frames: How Ideas About Race and Gender Shape Public Opinion
Nicholas J.G. Winter
University of Chicago Press (2008)
Race for the Exits: The Unraveling of Japan's System of Social Protection
Leonard Schoppa
Cornell University Press (2008)
The Evidence of Things Not Said: James Baldwin and the Promise of American Democracy
Lawrie Balfour
Cornell University Press (2000)