American Political Science Review

The Politics of Respectability and Black Americans’ Punitive Attitudes

The Politics of Respectability and Black Americans’ Punitive Attitudes By Hakeem Jefferson, Stanford University Existing research largely ignores Black support for punitive policies that target group members, even as this support challenges expectations of in-group […]

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Strategic Reporting: A Formal Model of Biases in Conflict Data

Strategic Reporting: A Formal Model of Biases in Conflict Data By Michael Gibilisco, California Institute of Technology, and Jessica Steinberg, Indiana University During violent conflict, governments may acknowledge their use of illegitimate violence (e.g., noncombatant […]

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Revolutionary Violence and Counterrevolution

Revolutionary Violence and Counterrevolution By Killian Clarke, Georgetown University What type of revolutions are most vulnerable to counterrevolutions? I argue that violent revolutions are less likely than nonviolent ones to be reversed because they produce […]

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Ideology Critique without Morality: A Radical Realist Approach

Ideology Critique without Morality: A Radical Realist Approach By Ugur Aytac, Utrecht University and Enzo Rossi, University of Amsterdam What is the point of ideology critique? Prominent Anglo-American philosophers recently proposed novel arguments for the […]

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How Exile Shapes Online Opposition: Evidence from Venezuela

How Exile Shapes Online Opposition: Evidence from Venezuela By Ane Esberg, University of Pennsylvania, and Alexandra A. Siegel, University of Colorado Boulder How does exile affect online dissent? By internationalizing activists’ networks and removing them […]