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May 2025, Volume 5, Issue 1
- 1-19 Atlantic Slavery's Impact on European and British Economic Development
by Ellora Derenoncourt - 21-58 Arming the Enslaved: Different Paths Taken by the US and Confederate Congresses during the American Civil War
by Jeffery A. Jenkins & Nicholas G. Napolio - 59-84 Creating Citizen–Subjects: Reconstruction and the Political Invention of Black Sovereignty
by Trevon D. Logan - 85-111 How Southern Politicians Reformed Textbooks to Resist Civil Rights Demands
by Agustina S. Paglayan - 113-137 Disenfranchisement
by Daniel B. Jones & Werner Troesken & Randall Walsh - 139-166 The Dog That Did Not Bark: The Failed Attempts to Disenfranchise African Americans in Early Twentieth Century Maryland
by Thomas R. Gray & Jeffery A. Jenkins
February 2025, Volume 4, Issue 4
- 439-469 Meritocracy Reimagined: Ideational Foundations of State-Building in Imperial China
by Peng Peng - 471-507 A Theory of Trade Policy Transitions
by T. Renee Bowen & J. Lawrence Broz & B. Peter Rosendorff - 509-545 Dictatorship, Higher Education, and Social Mobility
by María Angélica Bautista & Felipe González & Luis R. Martínez & Pablo Muñoz & Mounu Prem - 547-556 How Did Modern Democracy Spread So Widely?
by David Stasavage - 557-581 The Original Sin of Latin American States: Formation, Building, and Capacity
by Raúl Aldaz Peña & Daniel Baquero-Mendez
October 2024, Volume 4, Issue 3
- 311-332 Reassessing the Link between Revolutionary Threats and Democratization
by Sebastian Saiegh - 333-359 Unbreakable Legacies? Redistricting, Political Capital and Political Dynasties
by Brenda Van Coppenolle - 361-389 Randomized Controlled History?
by Ajay Verghese - 391-428 Interrupted Continuities: Local History and Support for the Radical Right
by Elias Dinas & Elli Palaiologou - 429-438 The Historical Origins of Economic Growth and Inequality and the Implications for Policy Today
by Philip T. Hoffman
July 2024, Volume 4, Issue 2
- 153-157 Introduction: Religion and Culture within Historical Political Economy
by Kerice Doten-Snitker & Avital Livny & Jared Rubin - 159-187 Persistent Effect of Historical China's Permanent Forced Military Service System: The Emperor is Dead, Long Live the Emperor
by Shuo Chen & Danli Wang - 189-219 The Christianization of War: How the Church Reform Movement Incentivized Armsbearing Elites to Conquer the Holy Land
by Jonathan Stavnskær Doucette & Jørgen Møller - 221-253 The Local Politics of National Realignments: U.S. Political Transformation from the New Deal to the Religious Right
by Stephanie Ternullo - 255-279 Trajectories of Violence against Ethnoreligious Minorities
by Kerice Doten-Snitker - 281-309 Religious Violence and Coalition Politics in History
by Desiree Desierto & Mark Koyama
May 2024, Volume 4, Issue 1
- 1-32 How the Popes Helped Luther: Territorial Fragmentation and the Diffusion of Protestant Ideology
by Anna Grzymala-Busse - 33-58 Insuring Against Hunger? The Long-Term Political Consequences of Exposure to the Dutch Famine
by Raluca L. Pahontu & Gerda Hooijer & David Rueda - 59-87 Purging the Pulpit: The Logic of Religious Elite Removals in the Glorious Revolution
by Benjamin Broman - 89-115 Why Was Central Europe Characterized by Political Fragmentation?
by Jonathan S. Doucette - 117-151 Investigating the Rise and Fall of Indian Trading Houses, 1795–1822
by Jeffery A. Jenkins
February 2024, Volume 3, Issue 4
- 459-500 Sovereign Defaults and International Trade: Germany and its Creditors in the 1930s
by Olivier Accominotti & Thilo N. H. Albers & Philipp Kessler & Kim Oosterlinck - 501-525 Beyond the Classroom? Primary Schools and Rural Civic Participation
by Asli Cansunar & Nela Mrchkovska - 527-554 Congress, the Harding Administration, and International Policy in the Early Interwar Period
by Justin Peck - 555-575 Beyond the Personal Income Tax: Direct Taxation without Representation in Colonial Africa
by Daisy Ward - 577-606 The Multiplant Origins of the National Market
by Robert Gulotty - 607-628 Economic Voting during the Great Depression
by Juan Herreño & Matías Morales & Mathieu Pedemonte
November 2023, Volume 3, Issue 3
- 305-335 Linking Party and Congressional Agendas: New Datasets on Policymaking During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
by E. J. Fagan & Bryan D. Jones & Brooke Shannon - 337-362 Reform Reconsidered: The Effects of Form of Government
by Alexander Sahn - 363-390 Gilded Age Doughfaces: Northern Democrats and Black Civil Rights
by Richard Barton & David A. Bateman - 391-425 Media, Secret Ballot, and Democratization in the US
by Leopoldo Fergusson & Juan Felipe Riaño & B. K. Song - 427-458 Damming the West: Sectionalism, Logrolling, and the Passage of the Reclamation Act of 1902
by Michael Greenberger
July 2023, Volume 3, Issue 2
- 161-178 Federal Slavery Legislation and Voting in U.S. Gubernatorial Elections, 1840–1860
by Alexander Jensen & Madeline Mader & Srinivas C. Parinandi & Anand Sokhey & Michael Byrd - 179-210 De Tocqueville, Population Movements, and Revealed Institutional Preferences
by Hoyt Bleakley & Paul W. Rhode - 211-236 Repression of Enslaved Americans' Protest: A Model of Escape in the Antebellum South
by Trellace Marie Lawrimore - 237-276 Congress and the Political Economy of the Indian Removal Act
by Jeffery A. Jenkins & Thomas R. Gray - 277-303 What Happens When the States Regulate First? Analyzing Governance of the Telegraph Industry in the Antebellum United States
by Srinivas C. Parinandi
May 2023, Volume 3, Issue 1
- 1-29 Local Rule, Elites, and Popular Grievances: Evidence from Ancien Régime France
by Anne Degrave - 31-63 The Developmental Legacies of Border Buffer Zones: The Case of Military Colonialism
by Bogdan G. Popescu - 65-93 The Political Economy of Suffrage Reform: The Great Reform Act of 1832
by Gary Cox & Adriane Fresh & Sebastian Saiegh - 95-124 Deeper Roots: Historical Causal Inference and the Political Legacy of Slavery
by David A. Bateman & Eric Schickler - 125-160 Historical Exposure to Statehood, Ethnic Exclusion, and Compliance with the State
by Vladimir Chlouba & Jan H. Pierskalla & Erik Wibbels
February 2023, Volume 2, Issue 4
- 527-551 The Spanish Mission Legacy on Native American Reservations
by Lee J. Alston & Marie Christine Duggan & Julio A. Ramos Pastrana - 553-581 Inequalities in Vote by Mail for Native Americans in the US West: The Historical Political Economy of Postal Service in Northeastern Arizona
by Melissa Rogers & Jean Schroedel & Joseph Dietrich - 583-610 State Trust Lands and Natural Resource Use in the US Northwest
by Eric Alston & Steven M. Smith - 611-634 Gender Gaps in Frontier Entrepreneurship? Evidence from 1901 Oklahoma Land Lottery Winners
by Jason Poulos - 635-653 The Gendered Legacies of the Frontier and Military Enlistment Behavior
by Jonathan Homola & Connor Huff & Yui Nishimura & Amorae Times
October 2022, Volume 2, Issue 3
- 391-414 Careerism, Status Quo Bias, and the Politics of Congressional Apportionment
by Jason M. Roberts - 415-447 Suffrage Reform and Financial Volatility: Reconsidering the Great Reform Act
by Gary Cox & Sebastian Saiegh - 449-476 Fiscality, Regulation, and Policy Choice: Evidence from Declassified British Cabinet Minutes 1981–1997
by Mircea Popa - 477-497 Retrospective Voting in the Premodern World: The Case of Natural Disasters in the Roman Republic
by Thomas R. Gray & Daniel S. Smith - 499-526 The Library of Babel: How (and How Not) to Use Archival Sources in Political Science
by Alexander Lee
July 2022, Volume 2, Issue 2
- 189-234 Rivalry and Empire: How Competition among European States Shaped Imperialism
by Jan P. Vogler - 235-261 An Imperial Accident: Property Rights in the Philippines under U.S. Rule, 1902–1939
by Leticia Arroyo Abad & Noel Maurer - 263-297 Predatory Rulers, Credible Commitment, and Tax Compliance in the Ottoman Balkans
by Yusuf Magiya - 299-331 The Merchant Guilds and the Political Economy of the Spanish Empire on the Eve of Independence
by Fernando Arteaga - 333-362 The Empire Within: Longitudinal Evidence on the Expansion of Christian Missions in Colonial Africa
by Bastian Becker - 363-389 Structured Stability Spending in Late Modern Empires: Japan, Germany, Ottoman State, and Brazil
by Austin M. Mitchell
February 2022, Volume 2, Issue 1
- 1-28 Fiscal Policy and the Long Shadows of History
by Jarosław Kantorowicz - 29-64 Colonialism and Institutional Persistence: Mixed Legislative Legacies in Ghana and Kenya
by Ken Ochieng' Opalo - 65-87 Unexpectedly Mortal: The Effects of Political Violence and Commemoration on Pro-Social Behavior
by Vladimir Zabolotskiy - 89-133 Pandemic Spikes and Broken Spears: Indigenous Resilience after the Conquest of Mexico
by Alberto Diaz-Cayeros & Juan Espinosa-Balbuena & Saumitra Jha - 135-157 Domestic Processes, External Threats, and Latin American State-Building: From Comparative Historical Analysis to Comparative Hypothesis Testing
by Cameron G. Thies - 159-187 State Capacity and Political Participation: The Long Shadow of Ottoman Legacy
by Konstantinos Matakos & Sevinç Bermek & Riikka Savolainen
December 2021, Volume 1, Issue 4
- 477-498 Why Do Colonial Investments Persist Less in Anglophone than in Francophone Africa?
by Joan Ricart-Huguet - 499-530 Land of the Freeholder: How Property Rights Make Local Voting Rights
by Katherine Levine Einstein & Maxwell Palmer - 531-559 The Grapes of Path Dependence: The Long-Run Political Impact of the Dust Bowl Migration
by Adam J. Ramey - 561-590 No Need for Democracy: Interelite Conflict and Independence in the Andes
by Raúl Aldaz Peña - 591-613 The Unintended Consequences of Nation-Making Institutions for Civil Society Development
by Tugba Bozcaga & Asli Cansunar
November 2021, Volume 1, Issue 3
- 283-318 Slavery, Elections and Political Affiliations in Colombia
by Ali T. Ahmed & Marcus Johnson & Mateo Vásquez-Cortès - 319-351 Sustaining Democracy with Force: Black Representation During Reconstruction
by Mario L. Chacón & Jeffrey L. Jensen & Sidak Yntiso - 353-375 Amnesty Policy and Elite Persistence in the Postbellum South: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
by Jason Poulos - 377-409 Slavery, Political Attitudes and Social Capital: Evidence from Brazil
by François Seyler - 411-446 The Predicament of Establishing Persistence: Slavery and Human Capital in Africa
by Adeel Malik & Vanessa Bouaroudj - 447-475 Old South, New Deal: How the Legacy of Slavery Undermined the New Deal
by Soumyajit Mazumder
August 2021, Volume 1, Issue 2
- 155-182 Sea Power
by Mark Koyama & Ahmed S. Rahman & Tuan-Hwee Sng - 183-214 Polarization Lost: Exploring the Decline of Ideological Voting in Congress after the Gilded Age
by Sara Chatfield & Jeffery A. Jenkins & Charles Stewart III - 215-234 Looking for Leadership in Historical Context: An Extension of the RIFLE Method of Randomization Inference
by Daniel S. Smith & Thomas R. Gray - 235-257 Institutional Foundations of the American Revolution: Legislative Politics in Colonial North America
by Nicholas G. Napolio & Jordan Carr Peterson - 259-282 The Royal Consultants: The Intendants of France and the Bureaucratic Transition in Pre-modern Europe
by Yu Sasaki
June 2021, Volume 1, Issue 1
- 1-30 Not-so-Natural Experiments in History
by Christian Dippel and Bryan Leonard - 31-68 History Never Really Says Goodbye: A Critical Review of the Persistence Literature
by Leticia Arroyo Abad and Noel Maurer - 69-104 Theory, History, and Political Economy
by Sean Gailmard - 105-126 Context is Everything: The Problem of History in Quantitative Social Science
by Tracy Dennison - 127-154 Turning History into Data: Data Collection, Measurement, and Inference in HPE
by Alexandra Cirone and Arthur Spirling