Journal of Politics
The JOP is the flagship journal of the SPSA, published by the University of Chicago Press. Editors-in-Chief: Timothy Hellwig & Timothy Nokken. journals.uchicago.edu/toc/jop/current
- Reposted by Journal of PoliticsDoes a litigant’s race or gender influence public support for Supreme Court decisions? Read more: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #JOP #SupremeCourt #PublicOpinion #PoliticalPerceptions Authors: @jamilscott.bsky.social @elizabethlane.bsky.social @jessicaann87.bsky.social
- "Descriptive Representation in an Era of Polarization" by Anna Weissman. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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- "Muzzling the Media? Explaining Popular Support for Media Restrictions in Africa" by Jeffrey Conroy-Krutz. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
- Reposted by Journal of PoliticsCongrats to the authors @andreucasas.bsky.social, @oms279.bsky.social, @jpayson.bsky.social, @jatucker.bsky.social, Richard Bonneau, & Jonathan Nagler. The paper, which is accepted for publication at @thejop.bsky.social, is available here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
- Reposted by Journal of PoliticsRacial Threat in Public Social Spaces doi.org/10.1086/736112 Accepted paper in @thejop.bsky.social by Associate Member @riazsascha.bsky.social and @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social student @tobiasroemer.bsky.social #PoliSky #NuffSky
- Reposted by Journal of PoliticsWe wrote on the topic of proxyism and (male) elite capture in rural Indian for the @thejop.bsky.social blog! (with @alyssarheinze.bsky.social & Rachel Brulé) See post here: ubwp.buffalo.edu/jopblog/ Full article: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
- 📢 Welcome to the Journal of Politics Blog! A new space to highlight path-breaking research from the JOP and make it accessible to a wide audience. Start reading here 👉 ubwp.buffalo.edu/jopblog/ #PoliSci #AcademicTwitter #JOP @spsanews.bsky.social @chicagojournals.bsky.social
- Reposted by Journal of Politics🚨New publication @The_JOP on human biases in data annotation (w. Nora Webb Williams, @kevinaslett.bsky.social, John Wilkerson). Extremely important given the increasing societal reliance on AI tools often trained on human coders www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
- "Political Deepfakes Are as Credible as Other Fake Media and (Sometimes) Real Media" by Soubhik Barari, Christopher Lucas, and Kevin Munger. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
- Reposted by Journal of PoliticsThis week included good news from former pipeline students, sharing their acceptances to great graduate programs! Sharing in their success is one of the best parts of this job! To read more about the pipeline program, check out this article in @thejop.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1086/726954
- "The Cultural Origins of Populism" by Yotam Margalit, Shir Raviv, and Omer Solodoch. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
- "Members Only? Why Associational Autonomy Cannot Justify Closing State Borders" by David V. Axelsen. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
- "Political Divisions in Large Cities: The Socio-Spatial Basis of Legislative Behavior in Chicago and Toronto" by Zack Taylor and David A. Armstrong II. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
- "Mining Competition and Violent Conflict in Africa: Pitting Against Each Other" by Anouk S. Rigterink, Tarek Ghani, Juan S. Lozano, and Jacob N. Shapiro. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
- Reposted by Journal of PoliticsA good occasion, if you haven't had one, to read her important article "Exile in America: Political Expulsion and the Limits of Liberal Citizenship" in @thejop.bsky.social . www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
- Reposted by Journal of PoliticsDark Money and Politician Learning (w/ @keithschnak.bsky.social) now online at @thejop.bsky.social: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
- "Electoral Turnover and Government Efficiency: Evidence from Federal Procurement" by Kyuwon Lee. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
- "Sorting for K Street: Postemployment Regulations and Strategic Wage Setting in Congress" by Elisa Maria Wirsching. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
- "Education as Identity? A Meta-Analysis of Education-Based In-Group Preferences in Candidate Choice Experiments" by Elizabeth Simon and Stuart J. Turnbull-Dugarte.https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/730745
- "Preaching to the Choir: A Problem of Participatory Interventions" by Rebecca Hanson, Dorothy Kronick, and Tara Slough. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
- Reposted by Journal of Politics🧵 How do criminal organizations expand to strong states? My paper in @thejop.bsky.social explains how mafias successfully moved to Northern Italy—by striking deals with local actors and exploiting migrant labor. Thread: ⬇️
- "How Criminal Organizations Expand to Strong States: Local Agreements and Migrant Exploitation in Northern Italy" by Gemma Dipoppa. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
- "How Criminal Organizations Expand to Strong States: Local Agreements and Migrant Exploitation in Northern Italy" by Gemma Dipoppa. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
- "Reining in the Rascals: Challenger Parties’ Path to Power" by Frederik Hjorth, Jacob Nyrup, and Martin Vinæs Larsen. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
- "Does Sportswashing Work? First Insights from the 2022 World Cup in Qatar" by Christian Gläßel, Adam Scharpf, and Pearce Edwards. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
- Reposted by Journal of Politics"Outgroup Avoidance" w/ @aasiegel.bsky.social & Alex Scacco is conditionally accepted at @thejop.bsky.social! I am rly proud of this paper & I think it has important implications for folks studying prejudice reduction and depolarization! Check it out! www.chagaiweiss.com/papers/inpro...
- From our upcoming issue: "Politicians’ Labor Market Experiences Across Party Families" by Olle Folke (@ollefolke.bsky.social ), Johanna Rickne (@johannarickne.bsky.social), and Jan Szulkin. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
- From our upcoming issue: Good Governance: A Fiduciary Model by Nikolas Kirby. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
- From our upcoming issue: "US Enforcement Politics and Remittance Dynamics in Mexico" by Matthew Smoldt, Valerie Mueller (@valmuellerasu.bsky.social ), and Cameron G. Thies (@cameronthies.bsky.social).
- From our upcoming issue: "The Costs of Collective Action: An Experimental Study of Risk, Punishment, and Immunity" by Gloria Cheung (@gloriacheung.com) and David A Siegel. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
- From our upcoming issue: "The “Odd Party Out” Theory of Certiorari" by Adam Bonica (@adambonica.bsky.social), Adam Chilton (@adamchilton.bsky.social), and Maya Sen (@mayasen.bsky.social). www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
- Reposted by Journal of PoliticsOne for those who like field experiments with validated behavioural outcomes and political identities doi.org/10.1086/730718
- From our upcoming issue: "Negative Political Identities and Costly Political Action" by Katharina Lawall @katharinalawall.bsky.social , Stuart J. Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com , Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social , and Joshua Townsley. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
- From our upcoming issue: "Negative Political Identities and Costly Political Action" by Katharina Lawall @katharinalawall.bsky.social , Stuart J. Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com , Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social , and Joshua Townsley. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
- 📢In this @thejop.bsky.social blog post, @bartonelee2.bsky.social argues that some politicians will “feign” support for policies that voters demand: proposing & publicly endorsing such policies but then exerting little effort toward their adoption. Why? Read⬇️ jop.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/politicians-...
- Reposted by Journal of PoliticsHappy to share my new paper online now @thejop.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... Punchline: state legislators whose districts are in out-of-state media markets are more likely to author and cosponsor policy innovations already adopted in the neighboring state.
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- Reposted by Journal of PoliticsWe're thrilled that our colleague @valentimvicente.bsky.social won the Joseph L Bernd JOP Best Paper Award for his article (with Elias Dinas and Sergi Martinez), best paper published in @thejop.bsky.social in 2024. Congratulations, Vicente! 👏👏
- 📢In this blog post, @macarenaares.bsky.social, @siljahausermann.bsky.social, @matthiasenggist.bsky.social & Michael Pinggera rely on novel survey data from 8 West European countries to study horizontal attitudinal constraint in welfare policy preferences ⬇️ jop.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/how-public-a...
- Reposted by Journal of PoliticsPublication alert - now online @thejop.bsky.social: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
- Can we convince voters to support women in elections via voter education campaigns? Or do such campaigns risk suppressing support for women candidates? New paper with @gofosu.bsky.social and Michael Wahman forthcoming in @thejop.bsky.social: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
- Reposted by Journal of PoliticsThe super election year is ending, with many winners and losers. Our new @thejop.bsky.social paper, (@henrikseeberg.bsky.social, @martinbaekgaard.bsky.social ) asks: How do winning and losing candidates see elections? Spoiler: Losers are more concerned about fairness. Link: doi.org/10.1086/734240
- ❓Can governments indirectly control drug trafficking-related violence? In this recent @thejop.bsky.social blog post, Martin Castillo-Quintana studies the conditions under which governments would be able to implement such policies. Read more ⬇️ jop.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/what-reduces...
- Reposted by Journal of Politics🚨 New paper 🚨 with @pstanig.bsky.social forthcoming at @thejop.bsky.social 🎉 about the political consequences of climate-related disasters 🌲💦⚠️ Pre-print 👉 osf.io/preprints/os... Summary 🧵👇
- Reposted by Journal of PoliticsDo radical right parties need to detach themselves from the legacy of right-wing authoritarian regimes to be successful? It would appear not, or not anymore. New work with @anjaneundorf.bsky.social now forthcoming at @thejop.bsky.social. A couple of thoughts 👇
- Reposted by Journal of PoliticsGabriele Badano and I wrote an article based on our JoP forthcoming article for the JoP Blog. It is about public reason, incivility, and whether the oppressed are morally entitled to disruption and violence.
- 🚨 New on the @thejop.bsky.social Blog: "Are the Oppressed Morally Entitled to Resort to Disruption and Violence? Public Reason and the Problem of Incivility" by Gabriele Badano & Alasia Nuti. Read more ⬇️ jop.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/are-the-oppr...
- Reposted by Journal of PoliticsNow that I'm back on here, let me share two of my latest papers. 1- In this @thejop.bsky.social piece, I defend democratizing Big Tech's algorithmic powers through Citizen Boards of Governance to promote the autonomy of the digital public sphere. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
- 🚨 New on the @thejop.bsky.social Blog: "Are the Oppressed Morally Entitled to Resort to Disruption and Violence? Public Reason and the Problem of Incivility" by Gabriele Badano & Alasia Nuti. Read more ⬇️ jop.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/are-the-oppr...
- 📖 Several political theorists have claimed that Confucian meritocracy offers a desirable alternative to democracy. This blog post by Baldwin Wong argues that Confucian meritocracy is implausible because of its instability. Read more⬇️ jop.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/whats-wrong-...
- ❗️ Matthew Smoldt, Valerie Mueller, & Cameron Thies argue remittance flows vary with subnational enforcement of the host country’s immigration policy. They test their theory in the context of the U. S. Secure Communities program⬇️ jop.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/should-they-...
- 📣Blog post alert: Jacob Gerner Hariri & Asger Mose Wingender document that rulers outside of Western Europe were strengthened by advanced arms technology at a time when societies were weakly modernized and political demands limited ("coercive imbalance")⬇️ jop.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/arms-and-the...
- 📢 Ex-rebels govern almost a quarter of sub-Saharan Africa today. How does war affect these countries’ long-run political development, & what explains their rebel regimes’ longevity? Shelley Liu explores the role of coercion in rebel governance ⬇️ jop.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/rebel-govern...
- ❓Do perceptions of migrants’ politics affect their reception? Alisha Holland, Margaret E. Peters, & Yang-Yang Zhou leverage a case in which migrants come from a similar language and religious background to isolate the role of political perceptions ⬇️ jop.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/misperceptio...
- ❗️"Propaganda that sells" - in this @thejop.bsky.social blog piece, Anton Shirikov develops a new understanding of authoritarian propaganda that helps explain the popularity of state media in consolidated autocratic regimes such as Russia. Find out more ⬇️ jop.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/propaganda-t...
- ❓Does removing Confederate symbols change attitudes and behavior regarding race & racial inequality? Roxanne Rahnama answers this question in the latest @thejop.bsky.social blog post. Find out more⬇️ jop.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/does-removin...
- ❗️In the latest @thejop.bsky.social blog post, Holger L. Kern & Georg Vanberg demonstrate that accused Nazi criminals who were charged in courts staffed with a greater proportion of tainted judges had substantially higher odds of escaping conviction.Read more⬇️ jop.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/accountabili...
- Reposted by Journal of PoliticsVery happy to share our paper “Government Performance and Democracy,” just published @thejop.bsky.social ! We ask whether government performance during crises shapes people’s attitudes about democracy. Paper here: www.vincentpons.org/covid19andde.... Our blog post below 👇
- When deaths rise or the economy collapses, do people blame democracy? Michael Becher, Nicolas Longuet-Marx, Vincent Pons, et al. conducted a survey experiment with 22,500 respondents in 12 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic to shed light on this question⬇️ jop.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/when-deaths-...
- 📢In this @thejop.bsky.social blog post, Anouk S. Rigterink, Tarek Ghani, Juan S. Lozano, and Jacob N. Shapiro provide evidence that competition between artisanal & industrial miners is an important source of natural resources-related conflict. Read more⬇️ jop.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/the-world-ne...
- ❓How do observers perceive multiactor projects in international development? This @thejop.bsky.social blog piece by Austin Strange, Elizabeth Plantan & Wendy Leutert examines this question by surveying public opinion in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ⬇️ jop.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/how-do-obser...
- Reposted by Journal of PoliticsA summary of my recent work w/ @karinkitchens.bsky.social is out now in @thejop.bsky.social blog. We use an historical case to explain variation in officeholding by marginalized groups, with important implications for today, including contestation over land use (www.npr.org/2023/08/03/1...)
- ❓ What explains variation in rates of political office-holding by marginalized groups? Megan A. Stewart & Karin E. Kitchens find that counties with "contraband camps" produced almost twice as many Black political leaders as similar counties without a camp ⬇️ jop.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/how-contraba...
- When deaths rise or the economy collapses, do people blame democracy? Michael Becher, Nicolas Longuet-Marx, Vincent Pons, et al. conducted a survey experiment with 22,500 respondents in 12 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic to shed light on this question⬇️ jop.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/when-deaths-...
- ❓ What explains variation in rates of political office-holding by marginalized groups? Megan A. Stewart & Karin E. Kitchens find that counties with "contraband camps" produced almost twice as many Black political leaders as similar counties without a camp ⬇️ jop.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/how-contraba...
- ❓ Do political actors appeal to discrete emotions? In this recent @thejop.bsky.social blog piece, Tobias Widmann investigates how politicians adapt their emotional rhetoric to increased political conflict over climate change⬇️ jop.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/how-politici...
- ⚽️Does sportswashing work? This @thejop.bsky.social article by Christian Gläßel, Adam Scharpf & Pearce Edwards conducts the first social scientific test of whether authoritarian host regimes win the desired image boost through sports mega-events. Learn more ⬇️ jop.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/what-do-dict...
- ❓ Do neighborhoods empower or disenfranchise? Drawing on the case of France, Haley McAvay & Pavlos Vasilopoulos use two unique data sets to explore the role of neighborhoods in shaping voter registration. Read more ⬇️ jop.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/living-in-pr...
- ⁉️ Do residency requirements change bureaucratic performance? Drawing from an original survey & local archival sources, Julia Payson & Srinivas C. Parinandi hand-collect data on the police residency laws of nearly 800 of the largest municipalities in the U.S.⬇️ jop.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/why-residenc...
- ❓When, why, and how do U.S. presidents try to shape public opinion? Using quantitative text analysis and regression techniques, Kerry Chávez examines how U.S. presidents justify the use of military force to the public. Learn more @thejop.bsky.social ⬇️ jop.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/how-u-s-pres...
- Reposted by Journal of PoliticsYay! 🍾 Our article - with @fghjorth.bsky.social and @mvinaes.bsky.social - is in first view at the @thejop.bsky.social. Using data from 🇩🇰, we show that legislative incumbency increases challenger parties’ access to government in the following electoral term www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
- Reposted by Journal of Politics🚨Publication alert🚨 Thrilled to announce my paper with @bkleinteeselink.bsky.social entitled "Origin of (A)symmetry: The Evolution of Out-Party Distrust in the United States" is now accepted and available at @thejop.bsky.social! 🎉 A thread in 5 songs from the album 'Origin of Symmetry' by Muse...
- 🚨 Just in time for the upcoming US presidential elections, we're excited to announce a @the_JOP Special Collection. Dive into a selection of articles addressing multiple elements of the study of the presidency. Access is free through Dec 31, 2024. ⬇️ www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/jop...
- ❓ Why do autocrats, under economic constraints, repress & why don’t civilians mobilize in response? In the latest @thejop.bsky.social blog piece, Jessica S. Sun studies the strategic calculations of autocrats & civilians. Read more ⬇️ jop.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/preventive-i...
- How should police respond to individuals with mental illness & other vulnerable aggressors with diminished culpability? In this @thejop.bsky.social blog post, Ben Jones considers three approaches from the ethics of defensive force literature. Read more ⬇️ jop.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/the-status-q...
- 📢 The populist backlash against international organizations (IOs) is well known, but to what extent & how do populists engage with IOs? Allison Carnegie, Richard Clark & Ayse Kaya explore these questions in the latest @the_JOP blog post. Learn more⬇️ jop.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/how-hostile-...
- 📢In the latest @thejop.bsky.social blog post, Mark D. Richardson develops a novel measure of partisan disagreement to illustrate variation in the magnitude of partisan conflict faced by 93 agencies. Read more⬇️ jop.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/how-us-feder...
- 🥳 We are delighted to announce that the most recent Google Scholar h5 index is out, & @thejop.bsky.social is ranked fifth among all journals in the discipline. The current index value for the JOP is 62, demonstrating the journal's visibility & influence relative to other publications!
- ❗️In the latest @thejop.bsky.social blog post, Guillermo Toral shows that the incumbent’s electoral defeat causes dismissals of temporary employees, the hiring of more civil servants, & declines in health care service delivery before the winner takes office.⬇️ jop.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/lame-duck-go...
- 📢In this @thejop.bsky.social blog post, Sascha Riaz, @danbischof.bsky.social & @markuswagner.bsky.social examine the relationship between crimes attributed to immigrants & hate crimes against refugees, using fine-grained geocoded data from Germany ⬇️ jop.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/triggers-of-...
