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In Their Own Words: Prosecutors on the Politics of Backlash
Law &Policy, Volume 48, Issue 4, October 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines the politicization of the criminal justice system in the United States, focusing on local prosecutorial reform. While progressive and conservative prosecutors have initiated reforms in jurisdictions throughout the United States for years, violent and antidemocratic backlash against prosecutors and judges alike has taken ...
Joshua M. Davis, Whitney K. Taylor
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Journal of Accounting Research, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 1733-1770, September 2026.ABSTRACT This paper studies how partisan alignment between city leaders and state governors shapes information processing and bond pricing in the municipal bond market. Using a novel data set on 1,045 U.S. cities from 2005 to 2019, we show that cities with the same political affiliation as the state governor face 9 basis points lower borrowing costs ...
RAMONA DAGOSTINO, ANYA NAKHMURINA
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Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 5, September 2026.ABSTRACT While Black and visual geographies have examined the image's racial and spatial power, more work is needed to analyze how racial frames of view become spatially embedded. This paper advances such a practice by analyzing news images of homelessness in Oakland.
Clara Pérez Medina
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Populist Strategies in African Democracies [PDF]
Drawing on insights from Latin America, this paper examines the factors that contributed to the use of populist strategies by political parties during recent presidential elections in Kenya, South Africa, and Zambia.
Danielle Resnick
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Wind Masculinities: Extractive, Caste, and Nationalist Rule in Rural India
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 5, September 2026.ABSTRACT This paper shows how India's wind electricity regime does not simply decarbonize electricity; it reorganizes power through a distinctive wind masculinity—a caste‐coded, infrastructural mode of rule that keeps money, machines, and people moving.
David Singh
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Punitiveness and atrocity: Why do some Filipinos support mass violence?
Amidst the aftermath of the controversial war on drugs during Duterte's presidency in the Philippines, this study seeks to understand characteristics of Filipino punitiveness.
Mendoza, Gabrielle Ann S +7 more
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Protestant fundamentalsim, intolerance, and punitiveness [PDF]
, 2002 Sociological literature in the area of Protestant religions suggests that association with fundamentalist denominations increases criminal punitiveness.
Mouser, Andrea Christine
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Sentencing in the Shadow of Promotion: The Impacts of Circuit Court Nomination on Federal Judges
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Volume 23, Issue 3, Page 359-378, September 2026.ABSTRACT Judges seek to maximize their own utility, like everyone else. Their goals include job security and promotion. Federal judges lack the electoral incentives that often drive state judges, but they could audition for promotion. I test whether they audition for promotion in their criminal sentencing.
Nicholas Goldrosen
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Cutting Through the State: Examining Voter Alignment With Milei's Agenda and His Chainsaw Plan
Latin American Policy, Volume 17, Issue 3, September 2026.ABSTRACT Argentina's political landscape experienced a major shift with the unexpected election of Javier Milei as President. Known for his radical right‐wing stance, Milei has pledged to drastically minimize the state's role, proposing a public spending cut of 14% of the gross domestic product.
Giada Pasquettaz, Franco Bastias
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Populism, populist conspiracies, and Kenyan politics: investigating the role of the media
Hoffman, LindsayThis dissertation sought to map and dissect how communication and/or the media resonates with populism and populist rhetoric. Specifically, this project examined Kenyan media’s receptivity to populist rhetoric, diffusion of populism in ...
Kipkoech, Gilbert
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