Submit your proposals now for the American Political Science Association's (APSA) 122nd Annual Meeting & Exhibition, held in Boston, Massachusetts, September 3–6, 2026, to address the latest scholarship in political science and explore this year’s conference theme, “Democracy Under Threat: How to Understand, Protect, and Rebuild.”

Without Roots: The Political Consequences of Collective Economic Shocks By Simone Cremaschi, Bocconi University and Nicola Bariletto, University of Texas at Austin and Catherine E. De Vries, Bocconi University While an abundance of scholarly work investigates how economic shocks influence the political behavior of affected individuals, we know much less about their collective effects. Exploiting the sudden onset of a plant disease epidemic in Puglia, Italy—where the plant pathogen Xylella fastidiosa devastated centuries-old olive groves—we explore the collective effects of economic shocks.

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Meet Justin Zimmerman, UAlbany Project Title: Black Youth and Changing Justin Zimmerman is an assistant professor of American politics at UAlbany. His area of concentration is Black politics and Urban politics. His research aims to understand how Black Chicagoans work with institutions and neighbors they distrust to pursue common policy goals – in this case, to remedy state and community violence.

White Democrats’ Growing Support for Black Politicians in the Era of the “Great Awokening” By Anna Caroline Mikkelborg, Colorado State University Equitable representation of minority groups is a challenge for democratic government. One way to resolve this dilemma is for majority-group voters to support minority-group candidates, but this support is often elusive. To understand how such inter-group coalitions become possible, this paper investigates the case of white Democratic Americans’ growing support for Black political candidates.

From Autocratic to Republican: Rethinking the Corporate University By Isaac Kamola, Trinity College On July 18, 2023, the faculty at my institution received an email co-signed by the President and the Chair of the Board of Trustees informing us that elements of the Faculty Manual contradicted the college’s charter and therefore needed revision. The email called on the faculty secretary to meet with the Vice President for Academic Affairs (also referred to as the Dean of Faculty) to determine which parts of the 

Meet Constantine Manda, University of California Project Title: Identifying Important Religious Legacies of Ancient African States Constantine Manda is an assistant professor in the department of political science at the University of California, Irvine since July 2023. His area of expertise includes comparative politics and the political economy of development with a regional focus on Africa. At UCI, Dr. Manda teaches courses on African politics, political economy, decolonization, genopolitics, global politics, program evaluation, among others.

The American Political Science Association (APSA) invites submissions for a PS: Political Science & Politics special issue, Rethinking the Global Legacies of 1776. As the United States marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 2026, this issue seeks fresh, rigorous perspectives on how the Declaration’s ideals and contradictions have shaped political thought and practice in the U.S. and around the world.  

The Vietnam Draft Lottery and Whites’ Racial Attitudes: Evidence from the General Social Survey By Donald P. Green, Columbia University and Oliver Hyman-Metzger, Columbia University The Vietnam Draft Lotteries, which randomly assigned men to military service, enable researchers to assess the long-term effects of interracial contact on racial attitudes. Using a new draft status indicator for respondents to the General Social Surveys 1978–2021, we show that white men who were selected for the draft subsequently expressed less negative attitudes toward Black people and toward policies designed to help them.

Engaging Diversity: An Inclusive Approach to Undergraduate Mentorship in Mobilization and Political Economy By Valentina González-Rostani, University of Southern California and Princeton University, Chie Togami, State University of New York, Tania Ramírez-Farias, University of Pittsburgh, Mariely López-Santana, George Mason University, Fernando Tormos-Aponte, University of Pittsburgh, and Mayra Vélez-Serrano, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras…

Meet Arvind Krishnamurthy, The Ohio State University Project Title: Keeping up with the Joneses: When do Civilians Demand Policing? Arvind Krishnamurthy is an assistant professor of political science at The Ohio State University. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Duke University and previously served as a postdoctoral scholar in the Possibility Lab at the UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy.

The Generalizability of IR Experiments beyond the United States By Lotem Bassan-Nygate, Harvard University, Jonathan Renshon, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Jessica L. P. Weeks, University of Wisconsin–Madison and Chagai M. Weiss, Stanford University Theories of international relations (IR) typically make predictions intended to hold across many countries, yet existing experimental evidence testing their micro-foundations relies overwhelmingly on studies fielded in the United States.

Explaining Gender Gap Variation in Political Science Knowledge Production By Daniel Stockemer, University of Ottawa, and Stephen W. Sawyer, American University of Paris When we open a random political science journal, we have a roughly two-to-one chance that the article is written by a man. Beyond this general finding, we know little about the gender gaps within political science knowledge production: Are women more represented in lower- or higher-ranked journals?

Rachael Houston, Texas Christian University Marcy Shieh, Miami University in Ohio Christine C. Bird, Oklahoma State University Project Title: Whose Briefs Count? Mapping Regional Influence in Healthcare Cases Before the Supreme Court Rachael Houston is an assistant professor of political science at Texas Christian University. Her research explores the intersection of judicial behavior, political communication, and social psychology, focusing on how individuals learn about and form opinions of the U.S.

Sustaining Exposure to Fact-Checks: Misinformation Discernment, Media Consumption, and Its Political Implications By Jeremy Bowles, University College London and Kevin Croke, Harvard University and Horacio Larreguy, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México and Shelley Liu, Duke University and John Marshall, Columbia University Exposure to misinformation can affect citizens’ beliefs, political preferences, and compliance with government policies.

Where You Earn Your PhD Matters By Benjamin Jepson, Penn State University, and Pete Hatemi, Penn State University We collected data on every tenure-track (TT) faculty member in the 122 PhD-granting political science departments in the United States to identify which graduate programs place faculty members in our discipline’s research universities. The top 20% of departments produced 75% of all faculty and the bottom 50% accounted for less than 5% of all TT faculty members at a research university.

Grace Reinke, University of New Orleans Project Title: Reproducing the World: Life Under Extractive Regimes Grace Reinke is assistant professor of political science and pre-law advisor at the University of New Orleans. Her research focuses on the intersections of feminist political theory, contemporary US political economy, and social movements, with special emphasis on the politics of contemporary extraction. Her current book project, Reproducing the World: Life Under Extractive Regimes, considers extractive forms of governance in the contemporary US and the forms of resistance that emerge in response.

Regularized Regression Can Reintroduce Backdoor Confounding: The Case of Mass Polarization By Jonathan Mellon, West Point and Christopher Prosser, Royal Holloway, University of London Regularization can improve statistical estimates made with highly correlated data. However, any regularization procedure embeds assumptions about the data generating process that can have counterintuitive consequences when those assumptions are untenable. We show that rather than simply shrinking estimates, regularization can reopen backdoor causal paths, inflating the estimates of some effects, and in the wrong circumstances, even reversing their direction.

Integrating Digital and On-Site Fieldwork: Practical Solutions for Scholars with Limited On-Site Access By Mai Truong, Marquette University Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, scholars have debated whether digital fieldwork can effectively substitute for on-site field research. The prevailing view is that digital fieldwork is a last resort when in-person access is limited. Reflecting on my recent field research in Vietnam and Malaysia, I advocate for integrating digital and on-site fieldwork as complementary components of the research process.

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Precolonial Elites and Colonial Redistribution of Political Power By Allison S. Hartnett, University of Southern California, and Mohamed Saleh, London School of Economics and Political Science Studies of colonialism often associate indirect colonial rule with continuity of the precolonial institutions. Yet, we know less about how colonialism affected the distribution of power between precolonial domestic elites within nominally continuous institutions.