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Persuasion in veto bargaining

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract We consider the classic veto bargaining model but allow the agenda setter to engage in persuasion to convince the veto player to approve her proposal. We show that the proposer‐optimal can be achieved either by providing no information or with a simple binary experiment.
Jenny S. Kim   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Election administration harms and ballot design: A study of Florida's 2018 United States Senate race

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract We introduce a typology of election administration harms and apply it to empirically study the consequences of ballot design. Our typology distinguishes between individual, electoral, and systemic harms. Together, it clarifies why ballot design can be a particular vulnerability in election administration.
Michael Morse   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Populism and the rule of law: The importance of institutional legacies

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Existing work sees populist governments undermining the rule of law because they seek to dismantle institutional constraints on their personalistic plebiscitarian rule. We argue that populist rulers pose a greater threat to legal impartiality, equality, and compliance when they face a legacy of weak rule of law.
Andreas Kyriacou, Pedro Trivin
wiley   +1 more source

Alienation, equality, and multifaith establishment

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Religious establishment today often takes a multifaith form, whereby multiple religions are supported in different ways and to different degrees. In order to contribute to the development of a normative framework for assessing practices and regimes of multifaith establishment, this article recommends the concept of “social alienation ...
Andrew Shorten
wiley   +1 more source

Empirical realism and democratic equality

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Recently, empirical political scientists have challenged presuppositions about voter behavior that they take to be widespread in normative democratic theory, charging that democratic theory is unmoored from empirical reality. For their part, many normative democratic theorists have rejected empiricists’ characterizations of their subfield and ...
Emma Saunders‐Hastings
wiley   +1 more source

Networks of coercion: Military ties and civilian leadership challenges in China

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Civilian‐led coups are one of the most common routes to losing power in autocracies. How do authoritarian leaders secure themselves from civilian leadership challenges? We argue that autocrats differentiate civilian rivals in part by their social ties to the military.
Tyler Jost, Daniel Mattingly
wiley   +1 more source

Partisan sorting, fatalism, and Supreme Court legitimacy

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper studies the contours of Supreme Court legitimacy. First, we construct a data set of surveys from 2012 to 2024 to show that diffuse support now diverges among partisans; we then analyze an original, six‐wave panel survey that reveals the stability of this partisan sorting.
Nicholas T. Davis, Matthew P. Hitt
wiley   +1 more source

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