Recently added articles from Quarterly Journal of Political Science:
The exaggerated effects of advertising on turnout: the dangers of self-reports *.(Column)
Nov 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT Political Scientists routinely rely on self-reports when investigating the effects of political stimuli on behavior. An example of this is found in the American politics work addressing whether campaign advertising mobilizes voters. Findings appear to vary by ...
Rich state, poor state, red state, blue state: what's the matter with Connecticut? *.(Column)
Nov 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT For decades, the Democrats have been viewed as the party of the poor, with the Republicans representing the rich. Recent presidential elections, however, have shown a reverse pattern, with Democrats performing well in the richer blue states in the northeast and coasts, ...
Capital controls, political institutions, and economic growth: a panel and cross country analysis *.
Nov 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT Statistical studies on the effects of capital controls on growth have generally yielded insignificant results. In this paper, we show that capital controls negatively affect growth in authoritarian countries, while growth in democratic countries is insignificantly ...
Cohesion, insurance and redistribution *.
Nov 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT Governments use redistributive policies to favor relatively unproductive economic sectors. Traditional economic wisdom teaches that the government should instead buy out the agents in these sectors, and let them relocate to more productive sectors. We show that ...
Does email boost turnout? *.(Research Note)
Nov 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT Political campaigns are just now learning how to put the Internet to best use. Low transaction costs and huge economies of scale tempt campaigns to move traditional activities online, but the effectiveness of virtual campaigns is unknown. This paper conducts 13 field ...
Bicameralism and government formation *.
Aug 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT In this paper we present a structural approach to the study of government formation in multi-party parliamentary democracies. The approach is based on the estimation of a stochastic bargaining model which we use to investigate the effects of specific institutional ...
Did Ralph Nader spoil Al Gore's presidential bid? A ballot-level study of green and reform party voters in the 2000 presidential election*.
Aug 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT The 2000 presidential race included two major party candidates--Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore--and two prominent third-party candidates--Ralph Nader of the Green Party and Pat Buchanan of the Reform Party. Although it is often presumed that Nader ...
Public goods in federal systems.
Aug 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT We study a political-economic model of federations with both federal and supplemental regional provision of a local (impure) public good with spillover effects. Regional differences in average income levels and externalities of provision induce differences in ...
Party influence in congress and the economy*.(Research Note)
Aug 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT To understand the extent to which partisan majorities in Congress influence economic policy, we compare financial market responses in recent midterm elections to Presidential elections. We use prediction markets that track election outcomes as a means of precisely ...
An estimate of risk aversion in the U.S. electorate *.
May 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT Recent work in political science has taken up the question of issue voting under conditions of uncertainty--situations in which voters have imperfect information about the policy positions of candidates. We move beyond the assumption of a particular spatial utility ...
Electoral rules and government spending in parliamentary democracies *.
May 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT We present a theoretical model of a parliamentary democracy where electoral competition inside coalition governments induces higher spending than under single party governments. Policy preferences of parties are endogenous and derived from opportunistic reelection ...
The etiology of public support for the designated Hitter rule*.
May 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT Since its introduction in 1973, major league baseball's designated hitter (DH) rule has been the subject of continuing controversy. Here, we investigate the political and socio-demographic determinants of public opinion toward the DH rule, using data from a nationwide ...
The effect of electoral competitiveness on incumbent behavior *.
May 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT What is the marginal effect of competitiveness on the power of electoral incentives? Addressing this question empirically is difficult because challenges to incumbents are endogenous to their behavior in office. To overcome this obstacle, we exploit a unique feature of ...
Blind spot.(From the Editors-in-Chief)
Mar 01, 2007; ... The Quarterly Journal of Political Science uses a preview + single-blind review process. That is, submissions undergo an in-house review after which survivors progress to external peer review. External referees know the identities of the authors, but authors do not know the identities of ...
Electoral institutions and the national provision of local public goods *.(Report)
Mar 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT I explore the incentives under alternative electoral institutions for national politicians to efficiently provide local public goods. Using a career-concerns model which incorporates voter ideological heterogeneity and thus allows comparison of electoral-college and ...
Small states, big pork.(interpretation of Transportation Equity Act for the Twenty-First Century of 1998)(Author abstract)
Mar 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT Using data on authorizations from the 2005 Highway Bill, we show that the legislative allocation of pork barrel spending by U.S. state (measured by the value of transportation earmarks per capita) greatly favors smaller states. We exploit the difference between two ...
Does advertising exposure affect turnout? *.
Mar 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT We identify an exogenous source of variation in exposure to campaign advertising in the 2000 presidential election, based on residence in battleground states. If exposure to campaign advertising makes a potential voter significantly more likely to vote, then we should ...
I'm asking for your support: the effects of personally delivered campaign messages on voting decisions and opinion formation.(Report)
Mar 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT In addition to mobilizing supporters to vote, partisan campaigns use get-out-the-vote tactics as a means to boost support for their candidate. Although observational studies have attempted to estimate the effects of grassroots campaigning on political attitudes, they ...
Nomination processes and policy outcomes *.(Report)
Mar 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT We provide a set of new models of three different processes by which political parties nominate candidates for a general election: nominations by party leaders, nominations by a vote of party members, and nominations by a spending competition among potential candidates ....
From the editors-in-chief.(Editorial)
Oct 01, 2006; ... As the final issue of the first volume of the Quarterly Journal of Political Science goes to press, we would like to thank our capable editorial board, our conscientious referees, and our contributing authors for making our startup year operationally smooth and academically successful. We ...