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Our November issue is now out!📘

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The journal publishes rigorous and original work significant to the whole discipline.

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IN NEW ISSUE: A Two-Track Model of Deliberation - Palle Bech-Pedersen & Christian Carl discuss the relationship between deliberative democracy, compromise, and consensus. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/2a9dQEu

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November 15, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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IN NEW ISSUE: How do subjective economic threats from globalization & tech changes shape social policy preferences? Seobin Han & Hyeok Yong Kwon argue structural economic shifts increase subjective job insecurity: buff.ly/gGtzBtk

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November 14, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Why do opposition parties in autocracies struggle to unite? Jonas Bergan Draege & @maryhenjimenez.bsky.social examine how resource asymmetry & high-pressure moments like protests deepen fragmentation. Read more: buff.ly/k2arX2i

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Divided Opposition: Resource Asymmetry, Elections, and Protests in Electoral Autocracies - Jonas Bergan Draege, Maryhen Jiménez, 2025
Despite calls for strategic unity against authoritarian incumbents, opposition parties often struggle to coordinate on a shared strategy. Why? This article buil...
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November 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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IN NEW ISSUE: Authoritarian, But Not Nativist - @aborges75.bsky.social & @lisazanottiphd.bsky.social examine how far-right parties in Latin America compare to their Western European counterpart: buff.ly/4fK7Fwk (OPEN ACCESS)

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November 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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How does climate-induced stress fuel conflict & displacement? Malena López Bremme & @ssregilme.bsky.social examine Syria as a case of ecocide, showing how drought & mismanagement intensified war & migration. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/PAiCLTg

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Climate Change, Ecocide, and the Rise of Environmental Refugees: The Case of Syria - Malena López Bremme, Salvador Santino Regilme, 2025
This article revisits the climate-conflict-displacement nexus by analyzing the Syrian Civil War as a case of climate-exacerbated state collapse. Rejecting linea...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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IN NEW ISSUE: Elite Cooperation and Affective Polarization: @markuswagner.bsky.social & @eelcoharteveld.bsky.social examine the link between the two by using 20 years of German coalitions data - buff.ly/DoGL3EA (OPEN ACCESS)

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November 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Does partisanship explain policy preferences across the urban-rural divide? Kattalina Berriochoa shows rural Republicans especially are at odds with their party when it comes to #education funding. Read OPEN ACCESS buff.ly/6WSjIt0

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Partisanship and Place: Education Preferences Across the Urban–Rural Divide - Kattalina M Berriochoa, 2025
Research linking political polarization to spatial divides has largely overlooked policy preferences. This article argues that local conditions meaningfully mod...
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November 12, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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IN NEW ISSUE: What’s driving the narrowing gender gap in party activism? Susan E. Scarrow, JeongKyu Suh & Jamie M. Wright find shifts in party participation aren’t all about women stepping up but also about men stepping back - buff.ly/xa7cPL9

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November 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Why do some explanations for public budget cuts work better than others? @rtpedersen.bsky.social & Paw Hansen examine how justification-based strategies reduce citizen opposition to cuts. Read more: buff.ly/siVcxu3

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November 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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IN NEW ISSUE: Not Just "Sinking Islands"! @virginiadebiasio.bsky.social discusses the importance of climate adaptation for the population of #Kiribati & defends a community-based approach to adaptation in #SIDS - buff.ly/jnp3dGc

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November 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Do fiscal deficits threaten finance ministers’ survival equally across regimes? Jonas Willibald Schmid & Lasse Aaskoven argue deficits raise removal risks in democracies but not autocracies. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/6UHXwlJ

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Constrainers vs Enablers? : Fiscal Deficits and the Political Survival of Finance Ministers Across Regime Types - Jonas Willibald Schmid, Lasse Aaskoven, 2025
We investigate how fiscal deficits affect the political survival of finance ministers in democracies and autocracies. While finance ministers occupy formally si...
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November 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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IN NEW ISSUE: Ethnic voting - @scrosenzweig.bsky.social examines the subject through the lens of group norms & social pressure using data from Africa. Read in more: buff.ly/YYogOYs

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November 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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How does migration diplomacy shape attitudes towards immigrants? Cameron Mailhot and @ninaobermeier.com explore a theory of bilateral reciprocity in the context of Kosovo. Read more: buff.ly/tT3hPwJ

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Bilateral Reciprocity and Attitudes Toward Immigration - Cameron Mailhot, Nina Obermeier, 2025
The global migration landscape is undergoing change. Migration diplomacy—interstate bargaining over migration—is growing in importance, and traditionally (im)mi...
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November 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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IN NEW ISSUE: Analysing protest participation - @danmercea.bsky.social, @feligsantos.bsky.social & Matthias Hoffmann argue it's a gradient, beyond the binary of participation and non-participation & suggest practical mobilisation pathways: buff.ly/XfEkdYm (OPEN ACCESS)

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November 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Is partner partisanship associated with vote choice? @cerifowler.bsky.social finds that it was for the 2016 Brexit Referendum & subsequent elections in the UK & argues that this can help us understand gender gaps in vote choice. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/MnhqzaY

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November 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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IN NEW ISSUE: What Defines a Discipline & How We Teach & Study It? Blair, @teachpolitics.bsky.social, Gann, Honeyman, Bellaby, Kolpinskaya, Adams & @northcarolinaexpat.bsky.social examine HE Politics and IR curricula & the implications of benchmark statements: buff.ly/IcBUK36

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November 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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What drives the stability & change of issue ownership perceptions in election campaigns? Lionel Marquis & @anketresch.bsky.social show voters who quickly see a party as issue owner tend to stick and vote for it; slower judgments shift more during campaigns. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/5Ofj4Ma

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November 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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IN NEW ISSUE: A Two-Track Model of Deliberation - Palle Bech-Pedersen & Christian Carl discuss the relationship between deliberative democracy, compromise, and consensus. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/2a9dQEu

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November 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Rethinking East Asia's welfare model: Nan Yang & @stefankuehner.bsky.social's #fsQCA study challenges the Productivist Welfare Capitalism thesis: buff.ly/8WPPdgx

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November 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
polstudies.bsky.social
Our November issue is now out!📘

Read the latest research findings in all areas of #politics and #IR in
@polstudies.bsky.social: buff.ly/3Q7MYjF

The journal publishes rigorous and original work significant to the whole discipline.

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Do patterns of coalition management affect governance outcomes in multiparty presidential regimes? Paul Chaisty & Timothy J. Power examine how cabinet proportionality predicts accountability and public goods. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/XhsfrKp

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November 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Why do opposition parties in autocracies struggle to unite? Jonas Bergan Draege & @maryhenjimenez.bsky.social examine how resource asymmetry & high-pressure moments like protests deepen fragmentation. Read more: buff.ly/k2arX2i

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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In 2019 EP elections, environmental issues shaped voting across Western Europe. Silvia Bolgherini & Luca Carrieri examine how radical right parties benefitted more than Greens. Read more: buff.ly/XhtUF5z

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November 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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How does climate-induced stress fuel conflict & displacement? Malena López Bremme & @ssregilme.bsky.social examine Syria as a case of ecocide, showing how drought & mismanagement intensified war & migration. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/PAiCLTg

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November 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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How does electoral volatility influence party system polarization? Juliusz Gastev explores the relationship in the Latin American context from 1992 to 2018. Read the research note OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/0gfeSSP

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November 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM