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April 2023, Volume 35, Issue 2
- 75-99 Access to justice in revenue-seeking legal institutions
by Hannah Simpson - 100-125 Electoral inequity
by Nicolas Boccard - 126-143 Slacktivism
by Boris Ginzburg
January 2023, Volume 35, Issue 1
- 3-30 Ideological sorting
by David P. Baron - 31-57 The political economy of noncompliance in customs unions
by Joshua C. Fjelstul - 58-71 Generalized medians and electoral competition with valence
by Tasos Kalandrakis
October 2022, Volume 34, Issue 4
- 481-498 Models of inter-election change in partisan vote share
by Mark C. Wilson & Bernard N. Grofman - 499-526 An information-based explanation for partisan media sorting
by Anthony Fowler & Kisoo Kim - 527-551 Minimal voting paradoxes
by Felix Brandt & Marie Matthäus & Christian Saile - 552-588 The evolution of consensus through coordinated action
by Ishan Joshi
July 2022, Volume 34, Issue 3
- 333-356 Explaining patterns in the onset of interstate war
by Christopher Schwarz - 357-414 Delegation, capture and endogenous information structures
by Perrin Lefebvre & David Martimort - 415-442 Identity and the limits of fair assessment
by Rush T. Stewart - 443-477 Why do voters elect less qualified candidates?
by Nobuhiro Mizuno & Ryosuke Okazawa
April 2022, Volume 34, Issue 2
- 175-190 Inefficient voting with identical voters
by Ole-Andreas Elvik Naess - 191-218 A theory of policy sabotage
by Alexander V. Hirsch & Jonathan P. Kastellec - 219-235 Rational erraticism
by Frank Bohn & Xue Wang - 236-261 Electoral accountability and political competence
by Lindsey Gailmard - 262-279 Social Power and Non-cooperative Game Theory
by William Bosworth, - 280-312 Homo moralis goes to the voting booth: Coordination and information aggregation
by Ingela Alger & Jean-François Laslier - 313-329 Accountability and learning with motivated agents
by Tinghua Yu
January 2022, Volume 34, Issue 1
- 3-34 Clientelism and development: Vote-buying meets patronage
by Vladimir Shchukin & Cemal Eren Arbatli - 35-58 Congressional oversight and electoral accountability
by Austin Bussing & Michael Pomirchy - 59-77 Gender, sexism, and war 1
by Dan Reiter & Scott Wolford - 78-106 Informative campaigning in multidimensional politics: The role of naïve voters
by Satoshi Kasamatsu & Daiki Kishishita - 107-126 Explaining legal inconsistency
by JBrandon Duck-Mayr - 127-144 Do supermajority rules really deter extremism? the role of electoral competition 1
by Daiki Kishishita & Atsushi Yamagishi - 145-172 The NIMBY problem
by David Foster & Joseph Warren
October 2021, Volume 33, Issue 4
- 399-429 The limits of information revelation in multilateral negotiations: A theory of treatymaking
by James D. Morrow & Kevin L. Cope - 430-454 On the separation of executive and legislative powers: Executive independence, liberty, and social welfare
by Justin Fox & Mattias Polborn - 455-474 Solving the guardianship dilemma by war
by Jacque Gao - 475-524 Axioms for defeat in democratic elections
by Wesley H. Holliday & Eric Pacuit
July 2021, Volume 33, Issue 3
- 279-299 Biased politicians and independent agencies
by Amy Pond - 300-332 Poor people’s beliefs and the dynamics of clientelism
by Miquel Pellicer & Eva Wegner & Lindsay J. Benstead & Ellen Lust - 333-382 Separation of powers with ideological parties
by Alvaro Forteza & Juan S. Pereyra - 383-396 Indirect accountability of political appointees
by Christopher Li
April 2021, Volume 33, Issue 2
- 169-197 Electoral competition in the presence of identity politics
by Leyla D. Karakas & Devashish Mitra - 198-224 Sanctions and incentives to repudiate external debt
by Carlo de Bassa & Edoardo Grillo & Francesco Passarelli - 225-235 Skill, power and marginal contribution in committees
by Ruth Ben-Yashar & Shmuel Nitzan & Tomoya Tajika - 236-273 Violence, coercion, and settler colonialism
by Chelsea A. Pardini & Ana Espinola-Arredondo - 274-276 Erratum to ‘Don’t hatch the messenger? On the desirability of restricting the political activity of bureaucrats’
by Jean Guillaume Forand & Gergely Ujhelyi
January 2021, Volume 33, Issue 1
- 3-24 A model of electoral alliances in highly fragmented party systems
by Marcelo de C Griebeler & Roberta Carnelos Resende - 25-55 Group cooperation against a hegemon
by Guillaume Cheikbossian - 56-94 Schooling, nation building and industrialization
by Esther Hauk & Javier Ortega - 95-139 Don’t hatch the messenger? On the desirability of restricting the political activity of bureaucrats
by Jean Guillaume Forand & Gergely Ujhelyi - 140-166 The stability of multi-level governments
by Enriqueta Aragonès & Clara PonsatÃ
October 2020, Volume 32, Issue 4
- 497-537 Security in the absence of a state: Traditional authority, livestock trading, and maritime piracy in northern Somalia
by Avidit Acharya & Robin Harding & J. Andrew Harris - 538-556 Power transfers, military uncertainty, and war
by William Spaniel - 557-581 Should I stay or should I go? British voter you got to let me know! Prime Ministers, intra-party conflict, and membership referendums in the British Westminster model
by Thomas König & Xiao Lu - 582-604 Social conflict, property rights, and the capital–labor split
by Christodoulos Stefanadis - 605-639 The politics of fiscal federalism: Building a stronger decentralization theorem
by Raúl A. Ponce-RodrÃguez & Charles R. Hankla & Jorge Martinez-Vazquez & Eunice Heredia-Ortiz - 640-640 Corrigendum
by N/A
July 2020, Volume 32, Issue 3
- 363-365 Editors’ introduction to JTP issue 32(3)
by Torun Dewan & John W Patty - 366-388 When strategic uninformed abstention improves democratic accountability
by Gento Kato - 389-408 Strategic candidacy for political compromise in party politics
by Akifumi Ishihara - 409-434 Cults of personality, preference falsification, and the dictator’s dilemma
by Charles Crabtree & Holger L Kern & David A Siegel - 435-459 A majoritarian basis for judicial countermajoritarianism
by James R. Rogers & Joseph Daniel Ura - 460-493 Authoritarian election as an incentive scheme
by Hao Hong & Tsz-Ning Wong
April 2020, Volume 32, Issue 2
- 185-187 Editors’ introduction
by Torun Dewan & John W Patty - 188-234 Subpoena power and informational lobbying
by Arnaud Dellis & Mandar Oak - 235-261 War and diplomacy on the world stage: Crisis bargaining before third parties
by Scott Wolford - 262-288 Delegation and political turnover
by Greg Sasso - 289-311 Legislative bargaining and partisan delegation
by Thomas Choate & John A Weymark & Alan E Wiseman - 312-347 Military conscription, external security, and income inequality: The missing link
by Nikitas Konstantinidis - 348-359 Parties, agendas, and roll rates
by Shawn Patterson Jr & Thomas Schwartz
January 2020, Volume 32, Issue 1
- 3-10 Revisiting electoral personalism
by José Antonio Cheibub & Monika Nalepa - 11-35 Who wins preference votes? An analysis of party loyalty, ideology, and accountability to voters
by Olle Folke & Johanna Rickne - 36-69 The personal vote and party cohesion: Modeling the effects of electoral rules on intraparty politics
by Royce Carroll & Monika Nalepa - 70-95 Preference vote and intra-party competition in open list PR systems
by José Antonio Cheibub & Gisela Sin - 96-111 Voting behavior under proportional representation
by Peter Buisseret & Carlo Prato - 112-142 Public goods equilibria under closed- and open-list proportional representation
by Daniel M Kselman - 143-167 Party, candidate, and voter incentives under free list proportional representation
by Thomas Mustillo & John Polga-Hecimovich - 168-182 Challenging the wisdom on preferential proportional representation
by Carol Mershon
October 2019, Volume 31, Issue 4
- 477-479 Editor’s Introduction to JTP issue 31.4
by N/A - 480-506 A global game of diplomacy
by Matt Malis & Alastair Smith - 507-542 Persuading policy-makers
by Christian Salas - 543-567 The design of enforcement: Collective action and the enforcement of international law
by Leslie Johns - 568-599 Accessing the state: Executive constraints and credible commitment in dictatorship
by Anne Meng - 600-625 Plausible deniability
by Joshua A Strayhorn - 626-641 Strategic Ambiguity with Probabilistic Voting
by Yasushi Asako - 642-659 Why differentiated integration is such a common practice in Europe: A rational explanation
by Katharina Holzinger & Jale Tosun - 660-676 Collective risk social dilemma and the consequences of the US withdrawal from international climate negotiations
by Oleg Smirnov - 677-698 Presidential action and the Supreme Court: The case of signing statements
by Sharece Thrower
July 2019, Volume 31, Issue 3
- 283-285 Editors’ Introduction to JTP issue 31.3
by Torun Dewan & John W Patty - 286-307 Strategic promotion, reputation, and responsiveness in bureaucratic hierarchies
by Xinyu Fan & Feng Yang - 308-329 Competing signals in the judicial hierarchy
by Joshua A Strayhorn - 330-369 Terrorism prevention with reelection concerns and valence competition
by Haritz Garro - 370-402 The efficacy of cheap talk in collective action problems
by Brenton Kenkel - 403-452 Lobbying dynamics
by David P Baron - 453-473 What are the effects of entry of new extremist parties on the policy platforms of mainstream parties?
by Samuel Merrill & Bernard Grofman
April 2019, Volume 31, Issue 2
- 129-131 Editors’ Introduction to JTP issue 31.2
by Torun Dewan & John W Patty - 132-155 Organizing evaluation: Assessing combat leadership quality
by William A. Wagstaff - 156-182 Motivating political support with group-based rewards
by Alastair Smith & Bruce Bueno de Mesquita - 183-208 Dissolution power, confidence votes, and policymaking in parliamentary democracies
by Michael Becher - 209-243 A dynamic model of party membership and ideologies
by Bilge Öztürk Göktuna - 244-259 A spatial valence model of political participation in China
by Jason Y Wu - 260-280 What is opposition good for?
by Betul Demirkaya
January 2019, Volume 31, Issue 1
- 3-5 Editors’ Introduction to JTP issue 31.1
by Torun Dewan & John W Patty - 6-45 Partisan strength and legislative bargaining
by Thomas Choate & John A Weymark & Alan E Wiseman - 46-65 The superdominance relation, the positional winner, and more missing links between Borda and Condorcet
by Raúl Pérez-Fernández & Bernard De Baets - 66-102 Incentives for progressive income taxation
by M Socorro Puy - 103-125 Fear and citizen coordination against dictatorship
by Abraham Aldama & Mateo Vásquez-Cortés & Lauren Elyssa Young
October 2018, Volume 30, Issue 4
- 385-387 Editors’ Introduction to JTP issue 30.4
by Torun Dewan & John W Patty - 388-409 Rivalry among agents seeking large budgets
by Kimiko Terai & Amihai Glazer - 410-430 Crises, investments, and political institutions
by Per F Andersson & Johannes Lindvall - 431-450 What resource curse? The null effect of remittances on public good provision
by Desiree A Desierto - 451-476 Signature requirements for initiatives
by Tomoya Tajika - 477-488 Simultaneous and sequential voting under general decision rules
by Friedel Bolle
July 2018, Volume 30, Issue 3
- 269-271 Editors’ Introduction to JTP issue 30.3
by Torun Dewan & John W. Patty - 272-305 Directional equilibria
by Hun Chung & John Duggan - 306-334 Centripetal and centrifugal incentives in mixed-member proportional systems
by Anna-Sophie Kurella & Thomas Bräuninger & Franz Urban Pappi - 335-357 A model of electoral competition between national and regional parties
by Mihir Bhattacharya - 358-382 Multiwinner approval rules as apportionment methods
by Markus Brill & Jean-François Laslier & Piotr Skowron
April 2018, Volume 30, Issue 2
- 181-183 Editors’ Introduction to JTP issue 30.2
by Torun Dewan & John W. Patty - 184-223 ‘Sons of the soil’: A model of assimilation and population control
by Avidit Acharya & David D Laitin & Anna Zhang - 224-245 ‘Strong’ states and strategic governance: A model of territorial variation in state presence
by Jessica Steinberg - 246-266 Attract voters or appease activists? Opposition parties’ dilemma and party policy change
by Florence So
January 2018, Volume 30, Issue 1
- 3-5 Editors’ introduction
by Torun Dewan & John W Patty - 6-44 Clarity or collaboration: Balancing competing aims in bureaucratic design
by Christopher Carrigan - 45-73 The electoral strategies of a populist candidate: Does charisma discourage experience and encourage extremism?
by Gilles Serra - 74-118 Elections and durable governments in parliamentary governments
by David P Baron - 119-146 Mediation in the shadow of an audience: How third parties use secrecy and agenda-setting to broker settlements
by Shawn L. Ramirez - 147-177 Power-sharing ‘discontinuities’: Legitimacy, rivalry, and credibility
by Saurabh Pant - 178-178 Erratum
by N/A
October 2017, Volume 29, Issue 4
- 517-519 Editors’ introduction
by David P Baron & John W Patty - 520-545 Path-dependency and coordination in multi-candidate elections with behavioral voters
by Costel Andonie & Daniel Diermeier - 546-577 When extremes meet: Redistribution in a multiparty model with differentiated parties
by Konstantinos Matakos & Dimitrios Xefteris - 578-598 Identity, repression, and the threat of ethnic conflict in a strong state
by Christine S Mele & David A Siegel - 599-622 On repression and its effectiveness
by Tiberiu Dragu - 623-646 Representation, sophisticated voting, and the size of the gridlock region
by Myunghoon Kang - 647-678 Policy bargaining and militarized conflict
by Peter Bils & William Spaniel
July 2017, Volume 29, Issue 3
- 353-381 More dangerous than dyads: how a third party enables rationalist explanations for war
by Max Gallop - 382-414 Tariff politics and congressional elections: exploring the Cannon Thesis
by Andrew J Clarke & Jeffery A Jenkins & Kenneth S Lowande - 415-439 Electoral competition with ideologically biased voters
by Marco Magnani - 440-466 The hidden cost of direct democracy: How ballot initiatives affect politicians’ selection and incentives
by Carlo Prato & Bruno Strulovici - 467-491 Qualitative investigation of theoretical models: the value of process tracing
by Peter Lorentzen & M Taylor Fravel & Jack Paine - 492-513 Higher bars for incumbents and experience
by Hans Gersbach & Markus Müller
April 2017, Volume 29, Issue 2
- 167-190 Ambition, personalist regimes, and control of authoritarian leaders
by Svetlana Kosterina - 191-213 Partisan optimism and political bargaining
by Thomas Jensen & Andreas Madum - 214-242 Are non-competitive elections good for citizens?
by Andrew T Little - 243-272 Storable votes and judicial nominations in the US Senate
by Alessandra Casella & Sébastien Turban & Gregory Wawro - 273-298 Bargaining with a biased autocrat
by Colin Krainin & John Slinkman - 299-326 Group incentives and rational voting1
by Alastair Smith & Bruce Bueno de Mesquita & Tom LaGatta - 327-350 Valence uncertainty and the nature of the candidate pool in elections
by Livio Di Lonardo
January 2017, Volume 29, Issue 1
- 3-21 May’s theorem in one dimension
by John Duggan - 22-47 How uncertainty about judicial nominees can distort the confirmation process
by Maya Sen & William Spaniel - 48-68 Ideology signaling in electoral politics
by Hisashi Sawaki - 69-96 Working smart and hard? Agency effort, judicial review, and policy precision
by Ian R Turner - 97-123 Participation and boycott in authoritarian elections
by Gail Buttorff & Douglas Dion - 124-148 Policy dynamics and electoral uncertainty in the appointments process
by Jinhee Jo & David M Primo & Yoji Sekiya - 149-164 Now or later? A dynamic analysis of judicial appointments
by Jinhee Jo
October 2016, Volume 28, Issue 4
- 523-524 Correction to ‘Using genetic information to test causal relationships in cross-sectional data’
by Brad Verhulst & Ryne Estabrook - 525-536 Pareto efficiency in the dynamic one-dimensional bargaining model
by Tasos Kalandrakis - 537-551 Participation and punishment
by C. Daniel Myers - 552-597 Unanimity overruled: Majority voting and the burden of history
by Klaus Nehring & Marcus Pivato & Clemens Puppe - 598-624 Components of party polarization in the US House of Representatives
by Thomas L Brunell & Bernard Grofman & Samuel Merrill - 625-654 Signaling and perception in international crises: Two approaches
by Shuhei Kurizaki - 655-677 The voter’s blunt tool
by T Renee Bowen & Cecilia Hyunjung Mo - 678-701 Party machines and voter-customized rewards strategies
by Rodrigo Zarazaga
July 2016, Volume 28, Issue 3
- 353-384 Scope and precedent: judicial rule-making under uncertainty
by Tom S Clark - 385-407 Heresthetics and choice from tournaments
by Scott Moser & Molly Fenn & Ran Ji & Michelle Maiden & Melanie Panosian - 408-430 Strategic party heterogeneity
by Georgia Kernell - 431-460 Time constraints and the opportunity costs of oversight
by Joshua A Strayhorn & Clifford J Carrubba & Micheal W Giles - 461-496 Political autonomy and independence: Theory and experimental evidence
by Klaus Abbink & Jordi Brandts - 497-519 Simulating policy diffusion through learning: Reducing the risk of false positive conclusions
by Christian Adam
April 2016, Volume 28, Issue 2
- 189-191 Introduction to the Journal of Theoretical Politics special issue in honor of Norman Schofield
by Elizabeth Maggie Penn - 192-224 Distributive politics, the electoral connection, and the antebellum US Congress: The case of military service pensions
by Charles J Finocchiaro & Jeffery A Jenkins - 225-265 Increasing rents and incumbency disadvantage
by Marko Klašnja - 266-287 An empirical stochastic model of Argentina’s Impossible Game (1955–1966)
by Juan Pablo Micozzi & Sebastián M Saiegh - 288-330 Do parties converge to the electoral mean in all political systems?
by Maria Gallego & Norman Schofield - 331-349 Social choice and popular control
by Sean Ingham
January 2016, Volume 28, Issue 1
- 3-4 Introduction to special issue on Elinor Ostrom and social dilemmas
by Eric A Coleman & Rick K Wilson - 5-26 Integrating power in institutional analysis: A micro-foundation perspective
by Prakash Kashwan - 27-43 Common property in the trust game: Experimental evidence from Bulgaria
by Eric A Coleman - 44-73 Swords without covenants do not lead to self-governance
by Timothy N Cason & Lata Gangadharan - 74-104 Social sanctions and informal accountability: Evidence from a laboratory experiment
by Malte Lierl - 105-137 Strategic embeddedness and the microfoundations of collective action: A comparative institutional analysis of the rule of law and informal institutions in cooperation games
by Armando Razo - 138-158 Passive non-participation versus strategic defection in a collective risk social dilemma
by Autumn Bynum & Reuben Kline & Oleg Smirnov - 159-185 Integrating core concepts from the institutional analysis and development framework for the systematic analysis of policy designs: An illustration from the US National Organic Program regulation
by David P Carter & Christopher M Weible & Saba N Siddiki & Xavier Basurto
October 2015, Volume 27, Issue 4
- 499-521 The welfare effects of minority-protective judicial review
by Justin Fox & Matthew C Stephenson - 522-543 Social networks, ethnic diversity, and cooperative behavior in rural Malawi
by Kim Yi Dionne - 544-569 (Don’t) Make My Vote Count
by Marco Faravelli & Santiago Sanchez-Pages - 570-587 Political conflicts, the role of opposition parties, and the limits on taxation
by Stephane Wolton - 588-612 Learning from others: an experimental test of Brownian motion uncertainty models
by David Glick & C Daniel Myers - 613-649 Campaign promises as an imperfect signal: How does an extreme candidate win against a moderate candidate?
by Yasushi Asako - 650-672 Predicting majority rule: Evaluating the uncovered set and the strong point
by Jacob Bower-Bir & William Bianco & Nicholas D’Amico & Christopher Kam & Itai Sened & Regina Smyth - 673-703 Legislative organization and ideal-point bias
by Keith Krehbiel & Zachary Peskowitz
July 2015, Volume 27, Issue 3
- 351-379 Open primaries and crossover voting
by Seok-ju Cho & Insun Kang - 380-400 The overvaluing of expertise in discussion partner choice
by T.K. Ahn & John Barry Ryan - 401-427 Self-enforcing clientelism
by Jorge Gallego - 428-456 Buying votes with imperfect local knowledge and a secret ballot
by Miguel R Rueda - 457-484 Public pensions and the intergenerational politics of aging societies
by Robert Grafstein - 485-496 Handicaps to improve reputation
by Amihai Glazer
April 2015, Volume 27, Issue 2
- 177-205 When and how can unilateral policies promote the international diffusion of environmental policies and clean technology?
by Thomas Hale & Johannes Urpelainen - 206-236 Vacancies, vetting, and votes: A unified dynamic model of the appointments process
by Gary E Hollibaugh Jr - 237-268 Conflict bargaining as a signal to third parties
by John Tyson Chatagnier - 269-287 Electoral geography and redistributive politics
by Karen L Jusko - 288-300 Strategic ambiguity about military capacity with multiple adversaries
by Patrick Hummel - 301-323 Putting path dependence in its place: toward a Taxonomy of institutional change
by Thomas Rixen & Lora Anne Viola