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The Journal of Politics, a leading general interest journal in political science, publishes theoretically innovative and methodologically diverse research in all subfields of the discipline including, but not limited to, American politics, comparative politics, formal theory, international relations, methodology, political theory, public administration and public policy. Our conceptions of theory and method are both broad and encompassing, and we welcome contributions from scholars around the world.


The SPSA Now Invites Nominations and Applications for Editor of the Journal of Politics

Larry Dodd, President of the Southern Political Science Association, has appointed a Search Committee to select a new Editor for The Journal of Politics. The incoming Editor will succeed Jan Leighley and Bill Mishler, whose editorial term will end on December 31, 2014. The new Editor will serve an initial four year term, from January 1, 2015 through December 31, 2018.

Click here for more information on the Call for Nominations.


What's New at the JOP?

  • In keeping with developments in the field, we have added "Network Analysis" under "Methodologies" as a new Personal Classification in our Editorial Manager database. You can add this to your list of classifications through your EM profile.
  • Authors of papers about to be submitted for review: see our new policy on Conflicts of Interest.

 

 


The Journal of Politics is edited by Jan Leighley and Bill Mishler, who rely on a distinguished editorial board as well as expert reviewers.  The editorial offices are located in the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona and the Department of Government at American University. Professor Valerie Hoekstra, Arizona State University, serves as Book Review Editor.  Founded in 1938, The Journal of Politics is published by Cambridge University Press for the Southern Political Science Association. 

JOP 75.3, July 2013

 

Why Do Some Regions of Europe Have Higher Quality Government?

Nicholas Charron

Victor Lapuente


Stereotypes of Muslims and Support for the War on Terror

John M. Sides

Kimberly Gross

 

Evaluating Political Leaders in Times of Terror and Economic Threat: The Continuing Influence of Politician Partisanship     

Jennifer L. Merolla

Elizabeth Zechmeister

 

Estimating Proposal and Status Quo Locations Using Voting and Censorship Data            

Michael Peress

 

Cities, Redistribution, and Authoritarian Regime Survival

Jeremy Wallace


Should Citizenship Be Conditional? The Ethics of Denationalization

Matthew J. Gibney

 

How Words do the Work of Politics: Moral Foundations Theory and the Debate Over Stem Cell Research     

Scott Clifford

Jennifer Jerit

 

Market Inequality and Redistribution in Latin America and the Caribbean

Jana Morgan

Nathan J. Kelly

 

The Coevolution of Conceptions of Procedural Fairness and Link Formation in Self-Organizing Policy Networks

Ramiro Berado

 

Conceptualizing and Measuring Participation in the Age of the Internet: Is Online Political Engagement Really Different to Offline?

Rachel Gibson

Marta Cantijoch


Democratization and International Border Agreements

Andrew P. Owsiak

 

Context Counts: The Election Cycle, Development, an Nature of Economic Voting

Matthew Singer

Ryan E. Carlin

 

On the Nature of Competition in Alternative Election Systems

Matias Iaryczower

Andrea Mattozzi

 

Clearing the Hurdle: Border Settlement and Rivalry Termination

Andrew P. Owsiak

Toby Rider


Social Contexts and Economic Biases in Representation

Christopher Reid Ellis

 

Who Heeds the Call of the Party on Congress?

William Minozzi

 Craig Volden

 

Presidential Campaigns and the Fundamentals Reconsidered

                                                      Peter Enns

Brian Richman

 

Is Today's Court the Most Conservative in Sixty Years? Challenges and Opportunities in Measuring Judicial Preferences

Michael Bailey

 

U.S. Senate Elections Before the 17th Amendment: Political Party Cohesion and Conflict 1871-1913

Wendy Schiller

Charles Stewart

Benjamin Xiong

 

JOP 75.2, April 2013

 


Voting for Justices: Change and Continuity in Confirmation Voting 1937-2010

Charles  M. Cameron

Jonathan Kastellec

Jee-Kwang Park


The Foundations of Limited Authoritarian Government: Institutions and Power-Sharing in Dictatorships 

Carles Boix

Milan Svolik

 

Assault on the Fourth Estate: Explaining Media Harassment in Africa       

Peter Von Doepp

Daniel J. Young

 

The Virtues of Republican Citizenship in Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy           

Michelle Clarke

 

Measuring Constituent Policy Preferences in Congress, State Legislatures and Cities

Christopher Tausonovitch

Christopher Warshaw

 

Do Markets Punish Left Governments?     

Thomas Sattler

 

The Foreign Policy Consequences of Trade: China's Commercial Relations with Africa and Latin America, 1992-2006

Gustavo Flores-Macías

Sarah Kreps

 

Revisiting African Agriculture: Institutional Change and Productivity Growth

Robert H. Bates

Steven Block

 

Montesquieu's (Anti-) Machiavellianism: The Fate of Ordinary Acquisitiveness in "The Spirit of the Laws"

Randal Hendrickson


Treaties, Tenure, and Torture: The Conflicting Domestic Effects of International Law

Courtenay R. Conrad

Emily Hencken Ritter

 

Distributive Politics, Number of Parties, Ideological Polarization, and Bargaining Power

Oskar Nupia

 

When Is Foreign Aid Selfish, When Is It Selfless?

Tobias Heinrich

 

Ignorance, Innocence, and Democratic Responsibility: Seeing Racism, Hearing Racism

Vincent Gerard Jungkunz

Julie Anne White


Exceeding Expectations? Determinants of Satisfaction with the Voting Process in the 2008 Presidential Election

Paul S. Hernson

Ryan L. Claassen

Richard G. Niemi

Kelly D. Patterson

 

Why Do PArties Change Position? Party Organization and Environmental Incentives

Gijs Schumacher

Catherine E. de Vries

Barbara Vis

 

Autocratic Institutions and Civicl Conflict Contagion

Jessica Maves

Alex Braithwaite

 

Legal Institutions and Democratic Survival

Christopher Reenock

Jeffrey Staton

Marius Radean

 

Compliance Bias and Environmental (In)Justice

David Kinisky

Christopher Reenock

 

Targeted Campaign Appeals and the Value of Ambiguity

Eitan B. Hersh

Brian Schaffner


Capitol Losses: The Mediocre Performances of Congressional Stock Portfolios

Andrew Eggers

Jens Hainmeuller


The Politics of Federal Agency Replacement

Johannes Kleibl


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