American Journal of Political Science

The forthcoming article “Contesting repression in divided democracies: Can counternarratives reduce support for police violence?” by Yanilda María González and Natán Skigin is summarized by the author(s) below. In recent years, massive protests against police violence have erupted worldwide. George Floyd’s murder sparked unprecedented demonstrations across American cities. In Nigeria, the #EndSAR…

The forthcoming article “Getting on the grid: A field experiment on bottom-up political pressure and access to essential public services” by Nikhar Gaikwad and Anjali Thomas is summarized by the author(s) below. In developing nations, basic human rights such as access to clean drinking water are often inaccessible to millions of marginalized citizens. Such failures […]

The forthcoming article “Vote buying and negative agenda control: A problem for the study of money in politics” by Andre Van Parys is summarized by the author below. Politicians, pundits, and ordinary citizens frequently argue that money has an outsized influence on U.S. politics. Yet research on the effect of money on politicians’ behavior finds limited effects, especially […]

The forthcoming article “What exploitation is” by Benjamin Ferguson, Peter Hans Matthews, David Ronayne, and Roberto Veneziani is summarized by the author(s) below.

The forthcoming article “Using large language models to analyze political texts through natural language understanding” by Kenneth Benoit, Scott De Marchi, Conor Laver, Michael Laver, and Jinshuai Ma is summarized by the author(s) below. The forthcoming article “Using large language models to analyze political texts through natural language understanding” by Kenneth Benoit, Scott De Marchi, Conor…

The forthcoming article “You and whose economy? Group-based retrospection in economic voting” by Christoffer Hentzer Dausgaard is summarized by the author below.

The forthcoming article “Perversity, futility, complicity: Should democrats participate in autocratic elections?” by Zoltan Miklosi is summarized by the author below.

The forthcoming article “What political theory can learn from conceptual engineering: The case of “corruption”” by Emanuela Ceva and Patrizia Pedrini is summarized by the author(s) below.

The forthcoming article “An ecclesiastical court: Christian nationalism and perceptions of the US Supreme Court” by Miles T. Armaly, Jonathan M. King, Elizabeth A. Lane, and Jessica A. Schoenherr is summarized by the author(s) below. The forthcoming article “An ecclesiastical court: Christian nationalism and perceptions of the US Supreme Court” by Miles T. Armaly, Jonathan M. King, Elizabeth A. L…

The forthcoming article “A drag on the ticket? Estimating top‐of‐the‐ticket effects on down‐ballot races” by Kevin DeLuca, Daniel J. Moskowitz, and Benjamin Schneer  is summarized by the author(s) below. Do Weak Top-of-the-Ticket Candidates Hurt a Party’s Down-Ballot Candidates? Political strategists, journalists, and scholars of American politics commonly assert that a strong candidate at the to…

The forthcoming article “Grounding the diasporic turn in political theory: Meta-commitment, transnationalism, and political obligation” by Kai Yui Samuel Chan and Anna Closas is summarized by the author(s) below. The study of diaspora has surged across the social sciences over the past few decades. Curiously, this trend has not spread to the field of political […]