Report NEP-POL-2026-04-20

This is the archive for NEP-POL, a report on new working papers in the area of Positive Political Economics. Eugene Beaulieu issued this report. It is usually issued weekly.

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• Nicola Fontana & Tommaso Nannicini & James M. Snyder, Jr., 2026, "Goodbye, Montesquieu: Executive Spillovers in Judicial Elections," Trinity Economics Papers, Trinity College Dublin, Department of Economics, number tep0626, Mar.
• Ryo Arawatari & Tetsuo Ono, 2026, "Optimal Supermajority Threshold for Suspending Fiscal Rules," Discussion Papers in Economics and Business, Osaka University, Graduate School of Economics, number 26-05, Apr.
• Shuhei Kitamura & Ryo Takahashi & Katsunori Yamada, 2025, "Misperceived Social Norms and Political Accountability: Evidence and Theory," ISER Discussion Paper, Institute of Social and Economic Research, The University of Osaka, number 1289rr, Jun, revised Apr 2026.
• Anelli, M. & Morelli, M. & Pappalettera, M., 2026, "Railroads and the Silver Shoes of Populism: The Rise and Fall of the People’s Party in 19th-Century America," Cambridge Working Papers in Economics, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, number 2628, Apr.
• Antoinette Baujard & Roberto Brunetti & Isabelle Lebon & Simone Marsilio, 2024, "How People Understand Voting Rules," Post-Print, HAL, number hal-04653702, Jul.
• Diego Marino-Fages & Agustina Martínez-Pozo, 2026, "Hate in the Tropics: Political Leaders and the Social Acceptability of Online Hate Speech," Working Papers, Red Nacional de Investigadores en Economía (RedNIE), number 391, Apr.
• Yameogo, Souleymane, 2026, "Hierarchies of Political Fear: Democratic Legitimacy under Chronic Insecurity - Evidence from Burkina Faso," SocArXiv, Center for Open Science, number czx97_v1, Apr, DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/czx97_v1.
• Jacob Bastian & Melody Harvey, 2026, "When Policy Shapes Perception: The 2021 Child Tax Credit and Consumer Sentiment," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 35059, Apr.
• Reber, Ueli & Ingold, Karin, 2026, "Framing with facts: How frames shape evidence use in Switzerland’s pesticide policy discourse," SocArXiv, Center for Open Science, number qtuek_v1, Apr, DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/qtuek_v1.