📣 New Issue Release | Vol. 59 No. 1 Check our new issue featuring: Anne Della Guardia, Milli Lake, Irene Morlino, Matthew Martin, Pablo Valdivieso-Kastner, Santiago Basabe-Serrano, Emily Rains, Mari Aburamoto, Masatomo Torikai, and Kevin Wei Luo 📖 Read ingentaconnect.com/content/c…

In their recent article, @pvkastner and @SantiagoBasabeS develop a theory of strategic monitoring in which judges, lacking enforcement capacity, selectively deploy oversight mechanisms in response to reputational risks generated by social pressure. Read: ingentaconnect.com/contenton…

In our latest issue, @_emilyrains uses original household survey data from over 200 Indian informal settlements, with social network data from a subset, to argue that hyper-local neighborhood context conditions politically relevant outcomes. 📖 Read: ingentaconnect.com/contenton…

Mari Aburamoto and @m_torikai_1979 argue in our latest volume that minor opposition parties persist - despite little chance of winning - because authoritarian regimes deliberately structure political competition. 📖 Read: ingentaconnect.com/contenton…

ICYMI | Our October issue is currently out! Check out Matthew Martin's article introducing will-confirmation in constitution making and how it operates amid crises of representation. 📖 Read: ingentaconnect.com/contenton…

ICYMI | Covering the Big Tigers in China Check out our fast track article by Yixuan Zhang on patronage ties and political signaling within elite circles in China. Read: ingentaconnect.com/content/c…

ICYMI | Vol. 59 No. 1 Check out the latest issue featuring: Anne Della Guardia, Milli Lake, Irene Morlino, Matthew Martin, Pablo Valdivieso-Kastner, Santiago Basabe-Serrano, Emily Rains, Mari Aburamoto, Masatomo Torikai, and Kevin Wei Luo 📖 Read: ingentaconnect.com/content/c…

Why do authoritarian regimes tolerate minor opposition parties with little chance of winning power? Mari Aburamoto and Masatomo Torikai argue that such parties persist because regimes deliberately structure political competition. 📖 Read: ingentaconnect.com/contenton…

How is between-group inequality related to collective action in broker-mediated patronage systems? Emily Rains argues that hyper-local neighborhood context conditions politically relevant outcomes. 📖 Read: ingentaconnect.com/contenton…

When and why do high courts in new democracies engage in post-decision monitoring to secure compliance with their rulings? Pablo Valdivieso-Kastner and Santiago Basabe-Serrano develop a theory of strategic monitoring in their recent article. Read: ingentaconnect.com/contenton…

Constitution-making is cast as a state-society dialogue, with public consultation sustaining the legal fiction that "the people" write the social contract. Matthew Martin introduces will-confirmation & how it operates amid crises of representation. Read: ingentaconnect.com/contenton…

How do government-led social safety net programs in areas of violence, conflict, & state fragility shape trust in governments? Anne Della Guardia, Milli Lake, & Irene Morlino find that knowledge of governments' roles can be a double-edged sword. 📖 Read: ingentaconnect.com/contenton…

Why do revolutions produce sometimes strong yet unstable states after revolutionary victory? Kevin Wei Luo examines patterns of subnational-level state building in Communist China after 1949 in our most recent issue. 📖 Read: ingentaconnect.com/contenton…

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ICYMI | Vol. 58 No. 4 Check out our previous issue featuring articles by Eduardo Silva, Zaraí Toledo Orozco, Rachel A. Schwartz, Ayelén Vanegas, Phillip M. Ayoub, Sam Whitt, and Marcus Johnson. 📖 Read: ingentaconnect.com/content/c…