Volume 78, Number 4 | October 2016


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78(4)
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Political Context, Government Redistribution, and the Public’s Response to Growing Economic Inequality
William W. Franko
78(4), pp. 957–973
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Money in Exile: Campaign Contributions and Committee Access
Eleanor Neff Powell, Justin Grimmer
78(4), pp. 974–988
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Do All Good Things Go Together? Development Assistance and Insurgent Violence in Civil War
Michael Weintraub
78(4), pp. 989–1002
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What Skinner Misses about Machiavelli’s Freedom: Inequality, Corruption, and the Institutional Origins of Civic Virtue
Amanda Maher
78(4), pp. 1003–1015
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Information Acquisition, Strategic Voting, and Improving the Quality of Democratic Choice
Scott A. Tyson
78(4), pp. 1016–1031
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Bureaucratic Investments in Expertise: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Field Trial
Simon Calmar Andersen, Donald P. Moynihan
78(4), pp. 1032–1044
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Sharing the Risk? Households, Labor Market Vulnerability, and Social Policy Preferences in Western Europe
Silja Häusermann, Thomas Kurer, Hanna Schwander
78(4), pp. 1045–1060
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Strategic Retirements of Elected and Appointed Justices: A Hazard Model Approach
Todd A. Curry, Mark S. Hurwitz
78(4), pp. 1061–1075
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Inequality and Electoral Accountability: Class-Biased Economic Voting in Comparative Perspective
Timothy Hicks, Alan M. Jacobs, J. Scott Matthews
78(4), pp. 1076–1093
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Legitimate Opposition, Ostracism, and the Law of Democracy in Ancient Athens
Alexander S. Kirshner
78(4), pp. 1094–1106
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Are We in the Same Boat or Not? The Opposite Effects of Absolute and Relative Income Shifts on Redistributive Preferences
Vittorio Mérola, Agnar Freyr Helgason
78(4), pp. 1107–1123
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Mayoral Partisanship and Municipal Fiscal Policy
Justin de Benedictis-Kessner, Christopher Warshaw
78(4), pp. 1124–1138
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War and Stability in Dynamic International Systems
Colin Krainin, Thomas Wiseman
78(4), pp. 1139–1152
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Estimating Vote-Specific Preferences from Roll-Call Data Using Conditional Autoregressive Priors
Benjamin E. Lauderdale, Tom S. Clark
78(4), pp. 1153–1169
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An Agenda-Setting Theory of Electoral Competition
Tiberiu Dragu, Xiaochen Fan
78(4), pp. 1170–1183
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The Anatomy of Debate about Campaign Finance
Ryan Pevnick
78(4), pp. 1184–1195
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Partisanship by Invitation: Immigrants Respond to Political Campaigns
James A. McCann, Katsuo A. Nishikawa Chávez
78(4), pp. 1196–1210
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Context and Political Knowledge: Explaining Cross-National Variation in Partisan Left-Right Knowledge
David Fortunato, Randolph T. Stevenson, Greg Vonnahme
78(4), pp. 1211–1228
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Interpreting Regression Discontinuity Designs with Multiple Cutoffs
Matias D. Cattaneo, Luke Keele, Rocío Titiunik, Gonzalo Vazquez-Bare
78(4), pp. 1229–1248
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The Contraction Effect: How Proportional Representation Affects Mobilization and Turnout
Gary W. Cox, Jon H. Fiva, Daniel M. Smith
78(4), pp. 1249–1263
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Let’s Just Agree to Disagree: Dispute Resolution Mechanisms in Coalition Agreements
Shaun Bowler, Thomas Bräuninger, Marc Debus, Indridi H. Indridason
78(4), pp. 1264–1278
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Time Is Power: The Noninstitutional Sources of Stability in Autocracies
Scott Abramson, Carlos Velasco Rivera
78(4), pp. 1279–1295
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Book Reviews


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Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government. By Christopher H. Achen and Larry M. Bartels
Neil Malhotra
78(4), pp. E1–E2
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Delivering the People’s Message: The Changing Politics of the Presidential Mandate. By Julia R. Azari
Sidney M. Milkis
78(4), pp. E3–E4
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Queer Clout: Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics. By Timothy Stewart-Winter
Boris Heersink
78(4), pp. E5–E6
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Obamacare Wars: Federalism, State Politics, and the Affordable Care Act. By Daniel Béland, Philip Rocco, and Alex Waddan
Sean Nicholson Crotty
78(4), pp. E7–E8
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Party Ballots, Reform, and the Transformation of America’s Electoral System. By Eric J. Engstrom and Samuel Kernell
Ruth Bloch Rubin
78(4), pp. E9–E10
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Crossing the Aisle: Party Switching by U.S. Legislators in the Postwar Era. By Antoine Yoshinaka
Timothy P. Nokken
78(4), pp. E11–E12
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Attacking Judges: How Campaign Advertising Influences State Supreme Court Elections. By Melinda Gann Hall
Michael J. Nelson
78(4), pp. E13–E14
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Anxious Politics: Democratic Citizenship in a Threatening World. By Bethany Albertson and Shana Kushner Gadarian
Scott Clifford
78(4), pp. E15–E16
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Uninformed: Why People Seem to Know So Little about Politics and What We Can Do about It. By Arthur Lupia
Matthew Motta
78(4), pp. E17–E18
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American Dionysia: Violence, Tragedy, and Democratic Politics. By Steven Johnston
Mary F. Scudder
78(4), pp. E19–E20
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In Defense of the Terror: Liberty or Death in the French Revolution. By Sophie Wahnich
Kevin Duong
78(4), pp. E21–E22
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James Madison and Constitutional Imperfection. By Jeremy D. Bailey
Jordan Cash
78(4), pp. E23–E24
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The Politics of Objectivity. By Peter Steinberger
Colin Bird
78(4), pp. E25–E26
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The Cartographic State. By Jordan Branch
Hein Goemans
78(4), pp. E27–E29
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Power Plays: How International Institutions Reshape Coercive Diplomacy. By Allison Carnegie
In Song Kim
78(4), pp. E30–E31
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Bounded Rationality and Economic Diplomacy: The Politics of Investment Treaties in Developing Countries. By Lauge N. Skovgaard Poulsen
Xander Slaski
78(4), pp. E32–E33
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Organizational Progeny: Why Governments Are Losing Control over the Proliferating Structures of Global Governance. By Tana Johnson
Marina Larionova
78(4), pp. E34–E35
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The Dictator’s Army: Battlefield Effectiveness in Authoritarian Regimes. By Caitlin Talmadge
Michael C. Horowitz
78(4), pp. E36–E37
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Power and the Vote: Elections and Electricity in the Developing World. By Brian Min
Toke Aidt
78(4), pp. E38–E39
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Decentralization and Intrastate Struggle: Chechnya, Punjab, and Québec. By Kristen M. Bakke
Stephen M. Saideman
78(4), pp. E40–E41
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Cities, Business, and the Politics of Urban Violence in Latin America. By Eduardo Moncada
Eleonora Pasotti
78(4), pp. E42–E43
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Syria. By Samer N. Abboud
José Ciro Martínez
78(4), pp. E44–E46
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