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Political Science Now - American Political Science Association
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Under the Veil of Democracy: What Do People Mean When They Say They Support Democracy?
By Hannah S. Chapman, University of Oklahoma, Margaret C. Hanson, Arizona State University, Valery Dzutsati, Southern Illinois University, and Paul DeBell, Fort Lewis College
Scholars have expressed concern over waning support for democracy worldwide. But what do ordinary citizens mean by the term “democracy,” and how do their definitions of democracy influence their support for it? Using global cross-national survey data, this study demonstrates that individual variation in the understanding of democracy is ..read more
Political Science Now - American Political Science Association
2d ago
The Realignment of Political Tolerance in the United States
By Dennis Chong, University of Southern California, Jack Citrin, UC Berkeley Political Science, and Morris Levy, University of Southern California
Studies conducted between the 1950s and 1970s found that the principles embodied in the First Amendment constituted a “clear norm” endorsed by large majorities of community leaders and virtually all legal practitioners and scholars. This consensus has since weakened under the strain of arguments that racist slurs, epithets, and other forms of expression that demean social identities are an ..read more
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6d ago
Party Types in the Age of Personalized Politics
By Gideon Rahat, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Democracies in general and political parties in particular have undergone political personalization in recent decades. The power balance between politicians (one or many) and the team (the party as a collegial entity) has changed, and existing party typologies are no longer suited to the analysis of today’s democratic politics. Although some new personalized party types have been added, what is missing is a systematic attempt to contrast them with the collegial option. This article proposes a new cl ..read more
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1w ago
Partisanship in the #MeToo Era
By Mirya R. Holman, University of Houston, and Nathan P. Kalmoe, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Partisanship structures mass politics by shaping the votes, policy views, and political perceptions of ordinary people. Even so, substantial shifts in partisanship can occur when elites signal clear differences on a political issue and attentive citizens update their views of party reputations. Mismatched partisans who strongly care about the issue respond by changing parties in a process of “issue evolution” when writ large. Others simply update their views to match ..read more
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1w ago
Are Stealth Democrats Really Committed to Democracy? Process Preferences Revisited
By Andrew J. Bloeser, Allegheny College, Tarah Williams, Allegheny College, Candaisy Crawford, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Brian M. Harward, Harvard University
Scholarship on “stealth democracy” finds that many citizens want to avoid the debate and conflict that often come with democratic governance. This scholarship has argued that citizens adopt this posture because they are uncomfortable with disagreement and desire a more expedient political process that enables leaders to m ..read more
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1w ago
In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. This piece, written by Dirck de Kleer, covers the new article by Daniel Ziblatt, Harvard University, Hanno Hilbig, University of California, Davis, and Daniel Bischof, Aarhus University, “Wealth of Tongues: Why Peripheral Regions Vote for the Radical Right in Germany.”
A recent study in the American Political Science Review by Daniel Ziblatt, Hanno Hilbig, and Daniel Bischof offers a novel perspective on voting behavior in Germany. Their stu ..read more
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1w ago
A Man’s World? The Policy Representation of Women and Men in a Comparative Perspective
By Mikael Persson, University of Gothenburg, Wouter Schakel, University of Amsterdam, and Anders Sundell, University of Gothenburg
Are the preferences of women and men unequally represented in public policies? This simple yet fundamental question has remained largely unexplored in the fast-growing fields of women’s representation and inequality in the opinion-policy link. Our study analyzes gender biases in policy representation using an original dataset covering 43 countries and four decades, with citizens ..read more
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1w ago
Project Title: Blood and Soil Liberalism: The Political Economy of Native American Assimilation Policy
Thomas Klemm, University of Michigan
Thomas Klemm is a Political Science Phd candidate (ABD) at the University of Michigan. His dissertation is looking at the political economy of Native assimilation policies, as well as their legacies in Indian Country today. Specifically, he is looking both at the ways in which capitalism often shapes the contours of Post-Indian wars Federal Indian policy, as well as how liberal humanitarian justifications, such as the introduction of liberal forms of priva ..read more
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1w ago
In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. This piece, written by Samantha Chapa, covers the new article by Maureen Stobb and Joshua B. Kennedy, “Judicial Specialization and Deference in Asylum Cases on the U.S. Courts of Appeals.“
Imagine your first day on the job. You sit at your desk—you don’t know who anyone is, except maybe your new boss. You don’t know where to find the pens or even where the plug is for your laptop. Each day, you come to the office, and you learn a little more ..read more
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The American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) will welcome eight scholars as 2024 fellows this fall. The AAPSS selects a small group of scholars and public intellectuals to become fellows of the academy each year, recognizing their contributions to social science and the extent to which their work has deepened public understanding of social dynamics.
“At this pivotal moment in our nation’s democracy, we must look to social science thought leaders to help us reimagine American world leadership and secure economic opportunity for future generations,” said Marta Tienda, A ..read more