It’s time to Hype that Hypothesis! Kate Baldwin and Matthew S. Winters hypothesize how #citizens view their #politicians’ effort in distributing #foreign #aid can affect their #credit-giving and #assessments. Read their full article with the case of #Uganda here: doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...

In #unequal societies, do #elites use their #power to counter #reforms meant for racially #marginalized beneficiaries? Ali T. Ahmed, Marcus Johnson, & Mateo Vásquez-Cortés build on #CRT in their Oct WP article to argue that they do. #land #race #LatinAmerica #Colombia #Law70 doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...

Got Theory? @yuvalfeinstein.bsky.social and Andreas Wimmer created a #systematic #model of #bargaining between #rulers and ruled. Read their full paper “Consent and Legitimacy: A Revised Bellicose Theory of State-Building with Evidence from around the World, 1500-2000”: doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...

Can #globalization reverse party positions? Andrew Rys of @treasurydept.bsky.social and David Steinberg of @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social find that it does in their Oct WP article. In particular, #PoliticalParties reverse their positions on the #ExchangeRate. #capital #policy doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...

Today in Encode/Decode we look at how Nikhar Gaikwad, Erin Lin, and @noahzucker.com examined the #legacies of #violence on #women’s #political #representation. Read how they collected data from survivors of the Khmer Rouge #genocide doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...

Let’s Hype that Hypothesis! Tobias Böhmelt advances theoretical arguments on peacekeepers’ #orientation and #personnel #composition to explore the relationship between #peacekeepers and the #environment. Read his hypothesis based on the case of post-Cold War #Africa: doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...

@worldpolitics.bsky.social will be on a break starting December 24, 2025, through January 2, 2026. Although the ScholarOne Manuscripts portal will remain accessible, during this time, the journal will not process (check-in) any submissions (original or revisions).

Do you follow @benfordham.bsky.social? While you're checking out his page, take a look at his interview with The Storied Teller wpj.princeton.edu/storied-tell.... Fordham spoke with WP about his Oct article and how the #history he brings to light led the #US to its current #president. #race #trade

Got Theory? In their new research, Allison Carnegie, @rickyclark.bsky.social and @noahzucker.com theorize that #populist #leadership helps explain variation in whether accurate information is provided to #IOs due to populists’ #anti-elitism. Read more here: doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...

Why did US Southern politicians turn away from #multilateralism after WWII? @benfordham.bsky.social finds that both #economics and racial hierarchy played a role in his October WP article. #race #trade #politics #ForeignPolicy doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...

Do you follow World Politics' editorial chair @grigopop.bsky.social? While you're checking out his feed, take a look at his recent piece in @goodauth.bsky.social #Russia #elections #politics goodauthority.org/news/despite...

Got Theory? Milan Svolik does. His research explores the question, ‘When and how do #voters punish #politicians for subverting #democracy?” Read more about how he differentiates between #vote switching, #backlash, and #disengagement in his full article: doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...

In today’s Encode/Decode @chknutsen.bsky.social and @palinakolvani.bsky.social analyze how #regime type and #state #capacity shape the abilities and incentives of #political #leaders to respond to #COVID-19. Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...

It’s time to Hype that Hypothesis! Sam Van Noort’s new research in “ #Industrialization and #Democracy” explains his #hypothesis about the relationship between #economic #development and #democracy. Explore his full work here: doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...

We're excited to announce our newest The Storied Teller piece, "Urban Order." WP spoke with author @nlnathan.bsky.social about his work on #Africa and connecting the #political #incentives of #state #leaders to the physical geometry of #urban #built #environments. wpj.princeton.edu/storied-tell...

Got Theory? Illan Nam does. Nam examines the state’s uneven capacity to deliver #public #social #goods to the periphery. Read how #Thailand is studied to discover interesting findings: doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...

Time for another Encode/Decode! Yu Zeng, Junyan Jiang, Jie Li, and @christiangoebel.bsky.social perform a quantitative test of the relationship between homeowners’ complaints and pro-HOA policy. Read about their case of China and full paper here: doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...

Let’s Hype that Hypothesis! We look back to Jeffrey A. Friedman’s #hypothesis that presidents and #presidential #candidates can use hawkish #foreign #policies to craft valuable impressions of #leadership #strength. Read how it affects all of us here: doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...

Do you follow @nlnathan.bsky.social? While checking out his feed, have a read of his October WP article. He backdates the construction of 1.5 million streets across a sample of #African countries to determine how #autocratic and #urban #politics shape the built environment. doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...

Got Theory? Gabriel Ondetti does. His theory explores “ #Property threats, #Antistatism, and #Business #Organization in #Latin #America.” Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...

11/12: Today in Encode/Decode we look back to how Giuliana Pardelli’s #quantitative #data provides a foundation for a broader examination of the role of #domestic #elites in the development of #state #power. Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...

We’re here to Hype that Hypothesis! Today we look at @minjulisettekim.bsky.social and @bobbygulotty.bsky.social's work on " #Electoral #Rewards and #Punishments for #Compensation.” Read about their three-step approach to explore their hypothesis: doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...

Got Theory? In his recent @worldpolitics.bsky.social article, Kurt Weyland theorizes that #political and #technological #developments may have contributed to terminological loosening. Discover what this means for all of us: doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...

Time to Encode/Decode new #empirical research on the allocations of #foreign #aid in #India. Read Brian Min, Eugenio Arima, @schooldaves.bsky.social, @a2hicken.bsky.social ky.social, @joelselway.bsky.social, and Ken Kollman's full article: doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...

We're here to Hype that Hypothesis! This week @maajanmor.bsky.social and @cboix.bsky.social hypothesize that #socialist #parties in #Europe nominated #working-class candidates where the share of working-class voters was close to the #electoral threshold needed to win a seat. doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...

Are #WorldTradeOrganization rulings biased? October issue @worldpolitics.bsky.social authors Joost Pauwelyn & Krzysztof Pelc address this question by analyzing 25 years of #WTO Appellate Body activity. Read their nuanced answer here: doi.org/10.1353/wp.2... #PoliticalPressure #JudicialIndependence

Got Theory? Lars-Erik Cedarman, Luc Girardin, and @carlmc.bsky.social y.social do. They theorize that #ethnic #nationalism is the main driver of the decline in #territorial state size in their 2023 @worldpolitics.bsky.social article. doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...

For the first Encode/Decode post, go back to @jkertzer.bsky.social, @ryanbrutger.bsky.social & Kai Quek's @worldpolitics.bsky.social article using cross-national #survey #experiments in #China and the #US to test for a #security dilemma. Read their original #empirical work: doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...

In today’s Got Theory? we are featuring @hanslueders.bsky.social 2024 World Politics article, in which he theorizes that #regime change makes citizens' #political attitudes malleable. Lueders tests his theory using #Germany as his case. Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...

World Politics articles are known for presenting original #empirical #research. In our new series, Encode/Decode, we will highlight some of the data used in @worldpolitics.bsky.social articles. Check next Wednesday for our first Encode/Decode info!

It’s Tuesday and we are here to Hype that Hypothesis. In this series, we will feature some of the #hypotheses that authors test in current and past @worldpolitics.bsky.social articles. Look out for the first Hype the Hypothesis coming later this month!

The October issue of @worldpolitics.bsky.social is out! Have a read: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55724 #WTO #Africa #autocrats #multilateralism #TheSouth #ExchangeRate #partisanship #race #politics #Colombia @nlnathan.bsky.social

Got Theory? World Politics articles do. In this new series, we will highlight the theoretical contributions of current and past @worldpolitics.bsky.social articles, as submissions that succeed at WP significantly advance theoretical debates in #international #relations or #comparative #politics.

The October issue of @worldpolitics.bsky.social is publishing soon! It discusses #WTO rulings; #autocrats & city street networks; the #Southern turn away from #multilateralism; how #partisanship affects exchange rate policy; and land titling, #race, and #political #violence in #Colombia

World Politics now has an #AI policy! That #policy lives on our website wpj.princeton.edu/authors-revi... and will be included in our updated Editorial Policies and Procedures document. The #journal is also adding an AI query to ScholarOne #Manuscripts that all #authors will be required to answer.

In Figure 7 from their @worldpolitics.bsky.social July article, Tarik Abou-Chadi, Silja Hausermann, Reto Mitteregger, Nadja Mosimann, and Markus Wagner address whether #policy positions create divergent reactions among groups of Social Democratic Party #voters, based on #education

Did an access-to-information system in #Mexico work? Did it become more responsive to public requests for information over time, or did portions of the public become more "expert" in their requests, which in turn ensured responses from the system?

@pward89.bsky.social and I were delighted to win the Best Article Award from APSA’s Democracy and Autocracy section for our @worldpolitics.bsky.social article “Elite Management Before Autocratic Leader Succession: Evidence from North Korea.” muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

3 of 6 authors of the July @worldpolitics.bsky.social article, "Why is it so Hard to Counteract Wealth Inequality" spoke with The Storied Teller about #inheritance #taxation & #wealth #inequality. @madselk.bsky.social @benansell.bsky.social @mhaslberger.bsky.social wpj.princeton.edu/storied-tell...

Drawing on his July 2025 @worldpolitics.bsky.social article, @ascharpf.bsky.social spoke to The Storied Teller about Henry Kissinger's #International Seminar at #Harvard and #SoftPower campaigns. #HenryKissinger #StudyAbroad #GlobalEducation #ArchivalResearch wpj.princeton.edu/storied-tell...

Figure 3 from "Why is it so Hard to Counteract Wealth Inequality" illustrates how people with low #wealth are much less likely to have an opinion about #inheritance #taxation than people with high wealth @madselk.bsky.social @benansell.bsky.social @aslicansunar.bsky.social @mhaslberger.bsky.social

Congratulations to Kurt Weyland for an honorable mention from @apsa.bsky.social section on Qualitative & Multi-Methods Research for his July 2024 @worldpolitics.bsky.social article, "Concept Misinformation." #coup #fascism #democracy Read the article doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...

@worldpolitics.bsky.social is pleased to put out The Storied Teller again, this one based on an April article from Margarita Gelepithis & Marco Giani. WP spoke with the authors about the #discrimination paradox they find in #education. @mgiani.bsky.social wpj.princeton.edu/storied-tell...

This figure from @axelcronert.bsky.social and Joakim Palme's July @worldpolitics.bsky.social article shows how the number of country-pairs covered by #SocialSecurity agreements has grown in each world region between 1945 and 2015. doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...

Since the 1950s, educational exchanges and "study abroad" programs, such as @princetonpiirs.bsky.social Global Seminars, have flourished. The United States alone hosts over one million international foreign students annually, as Figure 1 from @ascharpf.bsky.social's July WP article shows.

Did you know that World Politics uses a triple-blind review process? For WP, that means editors are blind to authors until a final decision is issued. You can read more about the benefits of triple-blind peer review in this article from Stephanie Brodie and colleagues. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

The July issue of @worldpolitics.bsky.social is out! Learn about #DemocraticSocialist #PoliticalParty strategies, participatory institutions, #WealthInequality, #migrants and #socialsecurity coordination, and #Kissinger and #SoftPower. muse.jhu.edu/issue/55120 #Inequality #Capitalism

How do US ambassadors affect trade at home? Politician ambassadors, as Minju Kim and Shu Fu, call them "are particularly equipped ... to promote exports from their home states to host countries." Find out how in Kim & Shu's April article muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... #trade #tariffs #UnitedStates

April issue authors Minh D. Trinh and Mai T. Truong write that "When faced with unfolding #protests, #autocrats frequently respond with #anti-protest #propaganda loaded with negative narratives about protesters" to affect public support for protests. How does this work? muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

How does foreign #military training shape civil-military relations? April @worldpolitics.bsky.social authors @ascharpf.bsky.social and Jesse Dillon Savage analyze original #data on military training from the US School of the Americas to address this question. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...