Do voters punish women legislators for failing to support women’s substantive policy interests? The authors test whether voters hold gendered expectations—expecting women lawmakers to champion women's issues more than men—and whether those expectations affect electoral evaluations.
How do voters judge their elected officials? This article provides a sweeping analysis of issue accountability from the constituent perspective. Rather than focusing on individual issues, it examines 44 bills across seven Congresses (2006-18) and tracks how constituents perceive their representatives' voting decisions.
This article examines conflicts over how the role of promotor (public prosecutor) is classified and declassified by members of the Ministério Público in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina. It aims to explain those positions by relating agents' representations and stances to social and historical conditioning, and to trace how disputes over legitimate representation shape institutionalization and the homogenization of classificatory practices within the institution.
This article asks whether voter bias helps explain the near absence of politicians who are publicly HIV-positive. Using original nationally representative survey experiments in the United States, the United Kingdom and New Zealand, the authors estimate how voters respond to hypothetical candidates with HIV and explore explanations for any observed penalty.
This study compares ingroup love and outgroup hate among partisans. Contrary to common assumptions, it finds that partisan identity significantly influences how citizens view both their own group and opposing groups.
This article examines articles on the Middle East in major political science journals over two decades. Analysis of a new dataset reveals an increase in MENA-focused research post-Arab Spring, yet these still represent only a small fraction of publications overall.
This paper asks how people form assumptions about who benefits from public policies and shows that concrete elements of policy design can change those assumptions. Using a pre-registered survey experiment, the author manipulates policy features (for example, whether a program includes a work requirement) and measures respondents’ assumptions about beneficiaries’ race and national origin and their policy evaluations. The study emphasizes that these design-driven assumptions influence policy attitudes even when respondents do not report stereotype-consistent beliefs.
In Japan's mixed electoral system, a conjoint survey experiment investigates voters' preferences for politicians' personal attributes.
Spatial theories of voting and policy implementation face a key challenge: accurately measuring voters' preferences, politicians' ideologies, policies, and the status quo on one scale. This paper introduces a novel technique to estimate these elements collectively.
Using novel geocoded data on local public sector jobs and politicians' residences, this study analyzes the effects of municipal mergers in Germany's LÄnder from 1994 to 2013.
New research offers a counterintuitive perspective on political representation.
This article argues that conservative viewpoints in political science face publication bias not due to explicit rejection but because their research often uncovers null findings, vulnerable to the file-drawer effect.
How has class inequality in elections grown? This article explores three hypotheses: policy indifference, policy alienation, and social alienation. British Election Data (1964-2010) shows working-class voters increasingly abstain.
Does responsiveness to voters drive electoral strategy? This article challenges conventional wisdom.
This study explores how citizens' ethnolinguistic identity influences their foreign policy preferences toward Russia and the EU, particularly in regions with varying trade dependencies.
Partisan attachments create an information gap beyond just citizens: politicians also filter perspectives.
This paper compares list experiments (LEs) and endorsement experiments (EEs), two indirect survey techniques for sensitive questions. We show these methods yield compatible findings even when studying delicate topics like support for ISAF among Pashtun respondents in challenging environments such as Afghanistan.