A question that keeps me up at a night is: “What is ideology? How do we measure it?” I remember Dan had this idea and said, “Well it’s easier to ask people to do a pairwise comparison than something more complicated—couldn’t we do that?”
One thing this paper addresses is that there is work on contemporary and long-term effects of boundaries, focused on how individual behavior is shaped by boundaries. What’s missing from this growing literature is much evidence of how this actually works.
On a first invitation to revise and resubmit, you will have at least three reviews and a letter from us that may suggest how to work with the reviews or provide you with additional advice. But how do you work through this advice, particularly when it is contradictory or advice that you disagree with? And what should you include in the detailed memo we request that you include with your resubmission?
In early 2017, only half of Washington, DC families receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) successfully recertified their eligibility and maintained their benefits.…
Government policy performance is an important source of political trust. When governments perform well, the public is inclined to have high levels of trust toward them.…
One of our editorial team’s most important objectives is to increase the substantive, methodological and representational diversity of the journal. When we became editors, we pledged to broaden the range of research topics published in the journal.…
Our editorial team created this blog as part of our effort to increase the transparency about the journal. The blog is a place to explain policies and procedures and to communicate the norms and expectations that guide our work at the journal.…
Donald Trump still claims the election he lost was unfair and rigged. Other populist leaders have equally proven to be sore losers in the contexts of elections and referendums.…
In this Conversation with Authors, we spoke with Dr. Roberto Carlos about his recent APSR article, “The Politics of the Mundane.”…
Prior to the beginning of our tenure, we set out a vision statement for the APSR revolving around six principles. One of these principles is editorial transparency, specifically as it refers to sharing with our community information about our editorial workflow and characteristics of our authors, reviewers, and readership during our tenure.…
When 43 students disappeared in the Mexican city Iguala in September 2014 during an attack of a joint group made up of local mafia and municipal police forces, a public outcry plunged the government of President Enrique Peña Nieto into crisis and decisively contributed to the defeat of his PRI party in the presidential elections.…
How was it possible for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to become established as a major health care reform despite being highly controversial?…
For decades, external observers have dismissed Belarus as a country with a weak or contested national identity and an underdeveloped civil society.…
The digital sphere is consistently expanding, and now encompasses more than half of the world’s population with eight billion digital devices (Kemp, 2019).…
In a recent opinion piece on Bloomberg.com, Peter Orszag, former director of the Office of Management and Budget during the Obama Administration, suggested that the Covid-19 pandemic would be an unprecedented Political Science experiment that would test whether the threat of the virus could overcome the polarisation of American political parties.…
“I would like to be free, as a man is free. Like a man who needs to wander with his fantasies and who finds this space only in his democracy, that has the right to vote and spends his life delegating and in receiving commands has found his new freedom” (Giorgio Gaber, “la Libertà”, 1973) Delegation is a very common act in our everyday life: We delegate tasks to our colleagues in the workplace.…
The overexploitation and pollution of natural resources and accelerating climate change are among the greatest challenges of the present. Against this backdrop, industries are more and more prone to taking sustainability aspects into account.…
Interview with 2020 John McMenemy Prize Nominees Paul Thomas and JP Lewis; “Executive Creep in Canadian Provincial Legislatures”. Please give us a nutshell summary of your nominated article, “Executive Creep in Canadian Provincial Legislatures”.…
Interview with 2020 John McMenemy Prize Nominee Eric Helleiner; “Conservative Economic Nationalism and the National Policy: Rae, Buchanan and Early Canadian Protectionist Thought.”…
Interview with 2020 John McMenemy Prize Nominees Luc Turgeon, Antoine Bilodeau, Stephen E. White and Ailsa Henderson; “A Tale of Two Liberalisms?…
The world is currently facing the most serious health crisis in more than a century. While virtually all countries have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, there is some variation in the spread of the virus and the extent to which it has disrupted societies and economies.…
Policy is often depicted as prescription –a set of rules by which services and functions are carried out in the public sphere.…
In the past three decades, credit rating agencies have been in the limelight on more than one occasion, and not in a good way.…
Historically much of the literature on bureaucratic behavior seeks to better understand how bureaucrats will use their discretionary power and information advantages to make decisions.…
Morality policies involve a controversial question of first principles or core values. Does gambling belong to this category of policies?
After decades of value change towards more egalitarian gender norms across most Western societies, the trend has now slowed, and even reversed in some countries.…
Around the world, policy-makers are confronted with various challenges originating from climate change, urbanisation, population growth, as well as technological and economic change.…
Social welfare policies are among the most salient and potentially controversial policies today. In virtually all western democracies, public support for the social safety net has changed significantly over time.…
Interview with 2019 John McMenemy Prize Nominees Cheryl N. Collier and Tracey Raney; “Canada’s Member-to-Member Code of Conduct on Sexual Harassment in the House of Commons: Progress or Regress?”…
Interview with 2019 John McMenemy Prize Nominee Melanee Thomas; “In Crisis or Decline? Selecting Women to Lead Provincial Parties in Government.”…
Interview with 2019 John McMenemy Prize Nominee Matt Wilder; “Debating Basic Income: Distributive Justice and the Normative-Technical Nexus.” Canadian Journal of Political Science 51 (2).…
Decision making in highly contentious public policy domains can become mired in political conflict, leaving important policy problems unaddressed. To remedy this, public agencies across levels of government are experimenting with non-traditional governance approaches that emphasize conflict reduction and negotiation among diverse stakeholders.…
I am delighted to announce a new editorial team for JEPS, which will hit the ground running after APSA. We will have seven associate editors and a senior associate editor.…
There’s a great deal of discussion these days about survey and polling methodology. A series of close and surprising elections, worldwide, have led many to wonder about the state of polling and survey methodology — Brexit, the Colombian peace referendum, and the 2016 U.S.…
More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.
Inspired by the DSA conference call for papers “Cartographies of Movement,” this digital collection showcases Dance Research Journal articles that engage with kinesthetic and epistemological sites of indigeneity. The three subdivisions narrate the general movement of peoples and ideas at sites of origin, across countries, and beyond geographic or imagined borders. Each article in the “Rooted in Indigeneity'' section addresses performance as a means of grounding specific Indigenous cultural beliefs.
It is an article of faith among ordinary Filipinos that American troops will die with Filipino troops defending Philippine claims to the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea (SCS).…
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
Evolution has shaped women’s ovulatory cycles to be characterised by complex recurring physiological processes of changing hormones and organ tissue. However, these changes often bring about unwanted aspects – be it premenstrual symptoms such as mood swings, feeling bloated or anxious, menstrual pain, or – still way too often – menstrual shame.…
Global sea surface temperatures are rising and have hit record high values in recent months. This potentially threatens seabirds, their prey and their habitats, both on land and at sea.
Writing was refreshing to me because I was communicating again. However, I didn’t fully understand the extent until I watched Dead Poets Society, where the late Robin Williams delivered this moving monologue. He said, “We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”
It is an article of faith among ordinary Filipinos that American troops will die with Filipino troops defending Philippine claims to the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea (SCS).…
More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.
In 1996, then-President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) into law, with the goal to “end welfare as we know it.”…
At the end of the Greek Bronze Age, between c.1400-1200 BCE, the Mycenaean palaces of Crete and mainland Greece used small clay tablets to keep their accounting documents.
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
In 2012, a Conservative-led coalition implemented austerity measures to restore the UK’s finances. The measures aimed to address the increase in public spending that had occurred during the Great Recession and included significant cuts to public services in the form of the 2012 Welfare Reform Act.…
National parliaments had been for long time losers of European integration with only very limited competences of information on new EU initiatives and of rubber-stamping transposition law compared to the national governments, which often negotiate EU law at the supranational level and propose its transposition acts at the national level.…
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