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January 2016, Volume 28, Issue 1
- 138-158 Passive non-participation versus strategic defection in a collective risk social dilemma
by Autumn Bynum & Reuben Kline & Oleg Smirnov - 159-185 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
by David P Carter & Christopher M Weible & Saba N Siddiki & Xavier Basurto
October 2015, Volume 27, Issue 4
- 499-521 The welfare effects of minority-protective judicial review
by Justin Fox & Matthew C Stephenson - 522-543 Social networks, ethnic diversity, and cooperative behavior in rural Malawi
by Kim Yi Dionne - 544-569 (Don’t) Make My Vote Count
by Marco Faravelli & Santiago Sanchez-Pages - 570-587 Political conflicts, the role of opposition parties, and the limits on taxation
by Stephane Wolton - 588-612 Learning from others: an experimental test of Brownian motion uncertainty models
by David Glick & C Daniel Myers - 613-649 Campaign promises as an imperfect signal: How does an extreme candidate win against a moderate candidate?
by Yasushi Asako - 650-672 Predicting majority rule: Evaluating the uncovered set and the strong point
by Jacob Bower-Bir & William Bianco & Nicholas D’Amico & Christopher Kam & Itai Sened & Regina Smyth - 673-703 Legislative organization and ideal-point bias
by Keith Krehbiel & Zachary Peskowitz
July 2015, Volume 27, Issue 3
- 351-379 Open primaries and crossover voting
by Seok-ju Cho & Insun Kang - 380-400 The overvaluing of expertise in discussion partner choice
by T.K. Ahn & John Barry Ryan - 401-427 Self-enforcing clientelism
by Jorge Gallego - 428-456 Buying votes with imperfect local knowledge and a secret ballot
by Miguel R Rueda - 457-484 Public pensions and the intergenerational politics of aging societies
by Robert Grafstein - 485-496 Handicaps to improve reputation
by Amihai Glazer
April 2015, Volume 27, Issue 2
- 177-205 When and how can unilateral policies promote the international diffusion of environmental policies and clean technology?
by Thomas Hale & Johannes Urpelainen - 206-236 Vacancies, vetting, and votes: A unified dynamic model of the appointments process
by Gary E Hollibaugh Jr - 237-268 Conflict bargaining as a signal to third parties
by John Tyson Chatagnier - 269-287 Electoral geography and redistributive politics
by Karen L Jusko - 288-300 Strategic ambiguity about military capacity with multiple adversaries
by Patrick Hummel - 301-323 Putting path dependence in its place: toward a Taxonomy of institutional change
by Thomas Rixen & Lora Anne Viola - 324-347 A strategic theory of international environmental assistance
by Elena V McLean
January 2015, Volume 27, Issue 1
- 3-7 Thirty years after Roemer’s General Theory
by Gilbert Skillman - 8-33 Exploitation in economies with heterogeneous preferences, skills and assets: An axiomatic approach
by Roberto Veneziani & Naoki Yoshihara - 34-42 On the problem of socialist economic design
by John E. Roemer - 43-57 The fragility of deterrence in conflicts
by Philipp Denter & Dana Sisak - 58-85 Voting systems and strategic manipulation: An experimental study
by Anna Bassi - 86-107 Combining ideological and policy distances with valence for a model of party competition in Germany 2009
by Anna-Sophie Kurella & Franz Urban Pappi - 108-131 Crisis bargaining, domestic opposition, and tragic wars
by Philip Arena - 132-150 Bringing the minority back to the party: An informational theory of majority and minority parties in Congress
by Adam Ramey - 151-174 Federal employee unionization and presidential control of the bureaucracy: Estimating and explaining ideological change in executive agencies
by Jowei Chen & Tim Johnson
October 2014, Volume 26, Issue 4
- 521-547 The role of oversight committees in closed rule legislation
by Wim Van Gestel & Christophe Crombez - 548-572 Modeling the electoral dynamics of party polarization in two-party legislatures
by Samuel Merrill III & Bernard Grofman & Thomas L Brunell - 573-598 Local public goods as vote-purchasing devices? Persuasion and mobilization in the choice of clientelist payments
by Guillermo Rosas & Noel P Johnston & Kirk Hawkins - 599-628 A strategic theory of effective monitoring arrangements for international institutions
by Thania Sanchez & Johannes Urpelainen - 629-652 Capitalist exploitation without capitalist production: The consequences of imperfect contracting
by Gilbert Skillman - 653-676 The facets of exploitation
by Marc Fleurbaey - 677-695 Motivating operatives for suicide missions and conventional terrorist attacks
by Daniel G Arce & Kevin Siqueira
July 2014, Volume 26, Issue 3
- 355-383 Narrow versus broad judicial decisions
by Justin Fox & Georg Vanberg - 384-404 The social brain paradigm and social norm puzzles
by Marcus Holmes & Costas Panagopoulos - 405-441 Anti-terrorism policies and the risk of provoking
by Franz Dietrich - 442-467 Polls, coalitions and strategic voting under proportional representation
by Michael Herrmann - 468-495 Depth versus rigidity in the design of international trade agreements
by Leslie Johns - 496-517 Executive appointments: Duration, ideology, and hierarchy
by Fang-Yi Chiou & Lawrence S Rothenberg
April 2014, Volume 26, Issue 2
- 177-196 International policy diffusion at the systemic level: Linking micro patterns to macro dynamism
by Taku Yukawa & Iku Yoshimoto & Susumu Yamakage - 197-221 Natural resources and institutional development
by David Wiens - 222-248 Veto players and policy adaptability: An intertemporal perspective
by Mariano Tommasi & Carlos Scartascini & Ernesto Stein - 249-282 Yesterday’s heroes, today’s villains: Ideology, corruption, and democratic performance
by Daniel W Gingerich - 283-311 Reform or revolution? Theory and evidence on the role of the middle class in the rise of universal male suffrage
by Tianyang Xi - 312-330 Supermajority voting, social indifference and status quo constraints
by Reuben Kline - 331-351 Change in parliamentary party systems and policy outcomes: Hunting the core
by Carol Mershon & Olga Shvetsova
January 2014, Volume 26, Issue 1
- 3-34 Knowing one’s future preferences: A correlated agent model with Bayesian updating
by Muhammet A Bas & Curtis S Signorino & Taehee Whang - 35-58 Linear and quadratic utility loss functions in voting behavior research
by Shane Singh - 59-78 An institutional remedy for ethnic patronage politics
by T Clark Durant & Michael Weintraub - 79-92 Lobbying for wealth redistribution by changing the social planner’s preferences
by Mingli Zheng - 93-116 Intra-party dynamics in mixed-member electoral systems: How strategies of candidate selection impact parliamentary behaviour
by Annika Hennl - 117-134 Exit polls and voter turnout
by Asger Lau Andersen & Thomas Jensen - 135-157 The selection and signaling effects of third-party intervention
by Yukari Iwanami - 158-174 Street-level charity: Beggars, donors, and welfare policies
by Cristian Pérez Muñoz & Joshua D Potter
October 2013, Volume 25, Issue 4
- 443-466 Optimal committee design and political participation
by Nikitas Konstantinidis - 467-491 Institutional sources of policy bias: A computational investigation
by Robi Ragan - 492-525 Proliferation, preemption, and intervention in the nuclearization of second-tier states
by Christopher R. Dittmeier - 526-545 Exploitation, inequality and power
by Roberto Veneziani - 546-575 The merits of adding complexity: non-separable preferences in spatial models of European Union politics
by Daniel Finke & Andreas Fleig - 576-576 Elinor Ostrom Prize
by N/A
July 2013, Volume 25, Issue 3
- 301-308 Information and political institutions
by Alan E Wiseman - 309-337 Lying aversion, lobbying, and context in a strategic communication experiment
by William Minozzi & Jonathan Woon - 338-362 Informational loss in bundled bargaining
by Ying Chen & Hülya Eraslan - 363-387 Elections and reform: The adoption of civil service systems in the U.S. states
by Michael M Ting & James M Snyder Jr & Shigeo Hirano & Olle Folke - 388-411 Stovepiping
by Sean Gailmard & John W Patty - 412-439 Ideology and information in policymaking
by Massimo Morelli & Richard Van Weelden
April 2013, Volume 25, Issue 2
- 153-181 Electoral authoritarianism and democracy: A formal model of regime transitions
by Michael K Miller - 182-213 Expressive motives and third-party candidates
by Indridi H Indridason - 214-233 Electoral agency in the lab: Learning to throw out the rascals
by Leif Helland & Lars Monkerud - 234-259 Theories of legislative politics and committee action in the postwar U.S. House of Representatives
by Chris Kypriotis - 260-283 International bargaining, endogenous domestic constraints, and democratic accountability
by Terrence L Chapman & Johannes Urpelainen & Scott Wolford - 284-298 Strategic party placement with a dynamic electorate
by James E Monogan III
January 2013, Volume 25, Issue 1
- 3-35 Why conference committees? A theory of conference use in structuring bicameral agreement
by Ryan J. Vander Wielen - 36-62 Civic initiatives in the context of legal uncertainty
by Martin Gregor & Michael L. Smith - 63-74 Performance when misinformation increases with experience
by Amihai Glazer - 75-104 Beyond the left–right cleavage: Exploring American political choice space
by Melvin Hinich & Xinsheng Liu & Arnold Vedlitz & Charles Lindsey - 105-127 Public opinion and conflict in the separation of powers: Understanding the Honduran coup of 2009
by Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson & Joseph Daniel Ura - 128-149 Resource allocation when different candidates are stronger on different issues
by Patrick Hummel
October 2012, Volume 24, Issue 4
- 431-460 On the rhetorical strategies of leaders: Speaking clearly, standing back, and stepping down
by Torun Dewan & David P Myatt - 461-484 An alternative mechanism through which economic inequality facilitates collective action: Wealth disparities as a sign of cooperativeness
by Tim Johnson & Oleg Smirnov - 485-506 Dropping the unitary actor assumption: The impact of intra-party delegation on coalition governance
by Thomas M Meyer - 507-525 Narrowing the field in elections: The Next-Two rule
by Steven J Brams & D Marc Kilgour - 526-554 Qualitative voting
by Rafael Hortala-Vallve - 555-570 Partisan agenda control in the US house: A theoretical exploration
by Jeffery A Jenkins & Nathan W Monroe - 571-572 Elinor Ostrom Prize
by N/A
July 2012, Volume 24, Issue 3
- 305-327 Introduction: What is a ‘gene’ and why does it matter for political science?
by Peter K Hatemi & Enda Byrne & Rose McDermott - 328-344 Using genetic information to test causal relationships in cross-sectional data
by Brad Verhulst & Ryne Estabrook - 345-369 It’s the end of ideology as we know it
by Peter K Hatemi & Lindon Eaves & Rose McDermott - 370-388 Gene–environment interactions related to body mass: School policies and social context as environmental moderators
by Jason D Boardman & Michael E Roettger & Benjamin W Domingue & Matthew B McQueen & Brett C Haberstick & Kathleen Mullan Harris - 389-408 Choosing sides: The genetics of why we go with the loudest
by Zoltán Fazekas & Levente Littvay - 409-427 The genetics of political participation, civic duty, and political efficacy across cultures: Denmark and the United States
by Robert Klemmensen & Peter K Hatemi & Sara Binzer Hobolt & Inge Petersen & Axel Skytthe & Asbjørn S Nørgaard
April 2012, Volume 24, Issue 2
- 149-171 Bargaining and the effectiveness of international criminal regimes
by Emily Hencken Ritter & Scott Wolford - 172-209 Demystifying trust: Experimental evidence from Cambodia and Thailand
by William English - 210-234 Dictatorship in a single export crop economy
by Bart Capéau & Philip Verwimp - 235-247 Probabilistic voting equilibria under nonlinear candidate payoffs
by Alexei Zakharov - 248-264 Why does the majority party bother to have minority party members on committees?
by Hong Min Park - 265-273 Groseclose and Snyder in finite legislatures
by Christian Dippel - 274-302 Managing expectations
by René Lindstädt & Jeffrey K Staton
January 2012, Volume 24, Issue 1
- 3-18 Rational incompetence
by Jinhee Jo & Lawrence S. Rothenberg - 19-45 The lesser evil: Executive accountability with partisan supporters
by Gerard Padró i Miquel & Erik Snowberg - 46-65 A model of political information-processing and learning cooperation in the repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma
by Sung-youn Kim - 66-89 Modeling the commons as a game with vector payoffs
by Raul P. Lejano & Helen Ingram - 90-109 Greater than the sum of their parts? When combinations of institutions improve citizens’ decisions
by Cheryl Boudreau - 110-146 One man, one vote, one time? A model of democratization in the Middle East
by Lisa Blaydes & James Lo
October 2011, Volume 23, Issue 4
- 431-447 The influence of strategic retirement on the incumbency advantage in US House elections
by Benjamin Highton - 448-462 Representing collective reasons for group decisions: The judgment aggregation problem revisited
by Andrew Knops - 463-479 Pre-election polling and sequential elections
by Patrick Hummel - 480-509 Jobs in politicians’ backyards: Party leadership competition and patronage
by Ozge Kemahlioglu - 510-531 Unravelling Bueno De Mesquita’s group decision model
by Jason B Scholz & Gregory J Calbert & Glen A Smith - 532-558 The role of procedural commitment in informational theories of legislative organization
by Fang-Yi Chiou - 559-560 Elinor Ostrom Prize
by John R. Wright - 561-562 Erratum
by N/A
July 2011, Volume 23, Issue 3
- 293-316 ‘While there’s a breath in my body’: The systemic effects of politically motivated retirement from the Supreme Court
by Michael A Bailey & Albert Yoon - 317-343 Competition, contest, and cooperation: The analytic framework of the issue market
by Simon T Franzmann - 344-358 Constituency size and stability of two-party systems
by Arturas Rozenas - 359-381 A welfarist critique of social choice theory
by Aki Lehtinen - 382-399 Is there really a turnout paradox?
by Luis Fernando Medina - 400-427 Domestic reform as a rationale for gradualism in international cooperation
by Johannes Urpelainen
April 2011, Volume 23, Issue 2
- 145-164 A model of non-informational preference change
by Franz Dietrich & Christian List - 165-187 Paradox lost: Explaining and modeling seemingly random individual behavior in social dilemmas
by Joe Oppenheimer & Stephen Wendel & Norman Frohlich - 188-214 Coordination dilemmas and the valuation of women in the U.S. Senate: Reconsidering the critical mass problem
by Kristin Kanthak & George A. Krause - 215-240 The origins of social institutions
by Johannes Urpelainen - 241-259 Majorities with a quorum
by Annick Laruelle & Federico Valenciano - 260-287 On the buyability of voting bodies
by John Morgan & Felix Várdy - 288-288 Corrigendum
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January 2011, Volume 23, Issue 1
- 3-20 How presidents push, when presidents win: A model of positive presidential power in US lawmaking
by Matthew N. Beckmann & Vimal Kumar - 21-51 Why primaries? The party’s tradeoff between policy and valence
by Gilles Serra - 52-68 Seizing the mantle of change: Modeling candidate quality as effectiveness instead of valence
by Michael K Miller - 69-86 Optimal counterterrorism and the recruitment effect of large terrorist attacks: A simple dynamic model
by Thomas Jensen - 87-110 Are group sources always credible? An experimental study of sources, stakes and participation
by Christy Aroopala - 111-134 Free-riding in international environmental agreements: A signaling approach to non-enforceable treaties
by Ana EspÃnola-Arredondo & Félix Muñoz-GarcÃa - 135-139 The finagle point and the epsilon-core: A comment on Bräuninger’s proof
by Craig A Tovey
October 2010, Volume 22, Issue 4
- 379-406 Transparency and Accountability: Empirical Results for Us States
by James E. Alt & Robert C. Lowry - 407-429 Power Concentration and Interstate Conflict: Is There a Connection?
by James Lee Ray & Patrick Bentley - 431-444 Ideology and Existence of 50%-Majority Equilibria in Multidimensional Spatial Voting Models
by Hervé Crès & M. Utku Ünver - 445-467 Evaluating the Unfairness of Representation With the Nash Social Welfare Function
by Junichiro Wada
July 2010, Volume 22, Issue 3
- 275-300 Does ‘Civic Duty’ ‘Solve’ The Rational Choice Voter Turnout Puzzle?
by Robert S. Goldfarb & Lee Sigelman - 301-332 Proportional Representation and Strategic Voters
by Arkadii Slinko & Shaun White - 333-358 Electoral Competition When Some Candidates Lie and Others Pander
by Haifeng Huang - 359-376 Power Sharing and Reform Capacity
by Johannes Lindvall
April 2010, Volume 22, Issue 2
- 139-167 Political Accountability Under Alternative Institutional Regimes
by Matthew C. Stephenson & Jide O. Nzelibe - 169-215 Coups, Elections and the Predatory State
by Anjali Thomas Bohlken - 217-245 Ambiguous Statutes and Judicial Deference To Federal Agencies
by John R. Wright - 247-268 The Implications of High Court Docket Control for Resource Allocation and Legal Efficiency
by Tom S. Clark & Aaron B. Strauss - 269-269 Erratum
by N/A - 271-271 Erratum
by N/A
January 2010, Volume 22, Issue 1
- 5-5 Congratulations to Elinor Ostrom
by N/A - 6-25 The Effect of Initiatives on Local Government Spending
by David M. Primo - 26-63 Adaptively Rational Retrospective Voting
by Jonathan Bendor & Sunil Kumar & David A. Siegel - 64-84 Condorcet Consistency of Approval Voting: a Counter Example in Large Poisson Games
by Matias Nuñez - 85-122 The Properties of Simple Vs. Absolute Majority Rule: Cases Where Absences and Abstentions Are Important
by Keith L. Dougherty & Julian Edward - 123-133 A Theoretical Analysis of Income Tax Evasion, Optimal Auditing, and Credibility in Developing Countries
by Amitrajeet A. Batabyal & Hamid Beladi - 134-134 Errata
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October 2009, Volume 21, Issue 4
- 413-449 Nominations for Sale
by Silvia Console-Battilana & Kenneth A. Shepsle - 451-482 The Puzzle of Weak Pocketbook Voting
by Robert Grafstein - 483-507 Trust in the Balance
by Ivan Savic & Zachary C. Shirkey - 509-541 Ballot Structure, Political Corruption, and the Performance of Proportional Representation
by Daniel W. Gingerich - 543-569 Estimating the Effect of Nonseparable Preferences in Eu Treaty Negotiations
by Daniel Finke
July 2009, Volume 21, Issue 3
- 283-309 Matching Donors and Nonprofits
by Gina Yannitell Reinhardt - 311-342 Successful and Failed Screening Mechanisms in the Two Gulf Wars
by Daniel Verdier - 343-364 From Many, One
by Elizabeth Maggie Penn - 365-394 Creation of Social Order in Ethnic Conflict
by Keisuke Nakao - 395-409 Lotteries, Justice and Probability
by Peter Stone
April 2009, Volume 21, Issue 2
- 139-159 The Structure of Heresthetical Power
by Scott Moser & John W. Patty & Elizabeth Maggie Penn - 161-186 Multiple Principals and Oversight of Bureaucratic Policy-Making
by Sean Gailmard - 187-211 Exit, Voice, and Cooperation: Bargaining Power in International Organizations and Federal Systems
by Jonathan B. Slapin - 213-236 Is the 50-State Strategy Optimal?
by Dan Kovenock & Brian Roberson - 237-276 Information Acquisition, Ideology and Turnout: Theory and Evidence From Britain
by Valentino Larcinese
January 2009, Volume 21, Issue 1
- 5-24 A Simple Model of Legislator and News Media Interaction
by Brian J. Fogarty - 25-61 Constitutions and Policy Comparisons
by David Hugh-Jones - 63-95 Explaining the 1914 War in Europe
by Frank C. Zagare - 97-112 Making Making Social Science Matter Matter To Us
by Robert Adcock - 113-136 The Leader Rule
by Jean-François Laslier
October 2008, Volume 20, Issue 4
- 379-414 Arguments-Based Collective Choice
by John W. Patty - 415-441 Outcomes of Collective Decisions With Externalities Predicted
by Jacob Dijkstra & Marcel A.L.M. Van Assen & Frans N. Stokman - 443-460 QRE, NSNX and the Paradox of Voting
by Howard Margolis - 461-476 Still Converging? a Downsian Party System Without Polls
by Emily Clough - 477-497 Social Stability and Catastrophe Risk: Lessons From the Stag Hunt
by Michael R. Powers & Zhan Shen - 498-526 Proportional Representation, Gini Coefficients, and the Principle of Transfers
by Tom Van Puyenbroeck - 527-528 Erratum
by N/A
July 2008, Volume 20, Issue 3
- 251-273 Informative Party Labels With Institutional and Electoral Variation
by Scott Ashworth & Ethan Bueno de Mesquita - 275-302 Electoral Poaching and Party Identification
by Dan Kovenock & Brian Roberson - 303-327 Applying the Methodology of Mechanism Design To the Choice of Electoral Systems
by Barbara Sgouraki Kinsey & Olga Shvetsova - 329-338 Bribery and Favoritism in Queuing Models of Rationed Resource Allocation
by Amitrajeet A. Batabyal & Hamid Beladi - 339-374 Foundations of Legislative Organization and Committee Influence
by Jaehoon Kim & Lawrence S. Rothenberg
April 2008, Volume 20, Issue 2
- 115-149 Uncertainty, Difficulty, and Complexity
by Scott E. Page - 151-180 A Dynamic Model of Generalized Social Trust
by T.K. Ahn & Justin Esarey - 181-200 Getting a Poor Return
by Robert M. Howard - 201-220 Navigating the Legislative Divide
by Matthew N. Beckmann & Anthony J. McGann - 221-245 To Punish the Guilty and Protect the Innocent
by Monika Nalepa
January 2008, Volume 20, Issue 1
- 5-29 The Legislative Median and Partisan Policy
by Alan E. Wiseman & John R. Wright - 31-46 Senate Elections With Independent Candidates
by Jac C. Heckelman & Andrew J. Yates