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Volume 139 - Number 4 - Winter 2024-25
The Rhetorical Post-presidency: Former Presidents as Elite Cue Givers
Gregory H. Winger AND Alex Oliver examine the degree to which former presidents can remain prominent political actors. They argue that their post-presidential influence is an outgrowth of the informal powers of the presidency.
Volume 139 - Number 4 - Winter 2024-25
Winners, Losers, and Voter Confidence in Response to Partisan Electoral Reform
M. V. Hood AND SETH C. MCKEE analyze individual- and state-level voter confidence in Georgia from 2020 to 2022. They argue that asymmetric changes in voter confidence based on party identification are principally tied to election outcomes.
Volume 139 - Number 3 - Fall 2024
Foreign-imposed Regime Change and the American War in Afghanistan
JASON BROWNLEE asks why did America’s twenty-year war in Afghanistan fail to establish a self-sustaining non-Taliban government? The author argues that the U.S. influence depended on the prospects for integrating old regime elites into the new government and on the strength on indigenous opposition forces. Both variables were unfavorable in Afghanistan and they shaped the boundaries of political order no matter how hard U.S. forces fought or how long they stayed.
Volume 137 - Number 3 - Fall 2022
Americans Still Held Hostage: A Generational Analysis of American Public Opinion about the Iran Nuclear Deal
Mazaher Koruzhde and Valeriia Popova examine the effect of the Iran hostage crisis on American public opinion on the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. They argue that Americans who were “old enough” to share a collective memory of the crisis form a “crisis generation” and are significantly less likely to approve of the deal, regardless of their party and ideological orientations.
Volume 139 - Number 4 - Winter 2024-25
The Rhetorical Post-presidency: Former Presidents as Elite Cue Givers
Gregory H. Winger AND Alex Oliver examine the degree to which former presidents can remain prominent political actors. They argue that their post-presidential influence is an outgrowth of the informal powers of the presidency.
Volume 139 - Number 3 - Fall 2024
El Cuento del Destino: Latino Voters, Demographic Determinism, and the Myth of an Inevitable Democratic Party Majority
ALVARO J. CORRAL AND David L. Leal critically assess the “demography as destiny” theory which posits that the growing number of Latino voters who disproportionately support the Democratic Party, will not only gain political influence but will tilt the electorate in the party’s favor and erode the GOP’s electoral competitiveness. By looking at trends in Latino voting behavior and partisan affiliation since 2016, the authors reveal complexities that call into question the theory and its prevailing assumptions.
Volume 139 - Number 4 - Winter 2024-25
The Transatlantic Relationship and the Russia-Ukraine War
Veronica Anghel AND Erik Jones discuss the implications of the Russia-Ukraine war on transatlantic relations. They argue that the renewed sense of solidarity among NATO allies does not translate into a “new era of transatlantic partnership,” as that would require a more coherent vision of Western interests.
Volume 138 - Number 1 - Spring 2023
Why We Don’t Fight: A Review Article
Lionel Beehner reviews Christopher Blattman’s Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace. He applauds the author for breaking down the various schools of thought in the international relations discipline explaining war onset but argues the author’s analysis neglects important qualitative factors, as well as recent technological innovations, to explain “why we fight.”
Volume 139 - Number 4 - Winter 2024-25
The Transatlantic Relationship and the Russia-Ukraine War
Veronica Anghel AND Erik Jones discuss the implications of the Russia-Ukraine war on transatlantic relations. They argue that the renewed sense of solidarity among NATO allies does not translate into a “new era of transatlantic partnership,” as that would require a more coherent vision of Western interests.
Volume 139 - Number 2 - Summer 2024
Reforming the Bench: Public Support for Supreme Court Institutional Change
ANNA MCCAGHREN FLEMING, MATTHEW D. MONTGOMERY, AND Natalie C. Rogol use a survey experiment to assess how media framing can influence public support for reforms pertaining to packing and term limits of the U.S. Supreme Court. They find that media messages can decrease support for reform, but not increase it.
Volume 137 - Number 4 - Winter 2022-23
Gender, American Identity, and Sexism
John Graeber and Mark Setzler explore the extent to which men and women differ in their views of American national identity and how these views of “Americanness” influence a person’s sexist beliefs. They find few differences between men and women regarding what it means to truly belong to the nation and that the relationship between national identify and sexism is no stronger for men than it is for women.
Volume 137 - Number 3 - Fall 2022
Culture, Political Order, and COVID-19 Mortality
WILSON X.B. LI and TINA T. HE examine the determinants of country responses to COVID-19. They build and apply a theoretical model to predict that countries with collectivist cultures, with higher government capacity to effectively formulate and implement sound policies, and/or with higher social trust will perform better in handling the pandemic. Their empirical analyses on cross country data in terms of COVID-19 deaths report results consistent with their model prediction
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