APSA Preprints

Making Cluster Analysis Inferential: From Discovery to Measurement

https://dx.doi.org/10.33774/apsa-2026-3lm69-v2?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

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Acculturation, Identity, and Latino Politics

https://dx.doi.org/10.33774/apsa-2026-t3nw4-v2?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

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Making Cluster Analysis Inferential: From Discovery to Inferential

https://dx.doi.org/10.33774/apsa-2026-3lm69?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

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Hacking elections:
A quantitative analysis of cyber-enabled foreign election interference

https://dx.doi.org/10.33774/apsa-2026-wlcqm?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

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Podcasting the Crisis of Masculinity: Recognition Politics, the Manosphere, and the Joe Rogan Experience Audience Despite podcasts' increasing prominence in the contemporary media ecosystem, they have attracted limited scholarly attention. This study examines audience characteristics of the most popular podcast i...

Important work exploring Rogan's audience:👇

"...younger, male, & with low educational attainment"

More "conspiratorial" thinking & "conservative media consumption"

"politically diverse yet culturally unified"

intensifies "cultural polarization."

Preprint: preprints.apsanet.org/engage/apsa/...

Could I Ever Lose Your Support? Unconditional Political Bias in the American Public Partisan bias poses serious challenges for democracies. Yet scholars rarely study the determinants of partisan bias directly, and without regard for its most extreme manifestations. We propose that ex...

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Testing Tripwire Theory Using Survey Experiments Many scholars and policymakers assume that attacks on forward deployed U.S. troops—“tripwires”—will prompt strong domestic political support for escalation against the attacker. This conjecture inform...

Given rumors about an attack on Embassy Kuwait, I feel obligated to mention that in earlier research we found that casualties among diplomats were viewed as seriously as casualties among soldiers

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Unexpected Voices: How Cultural Agents Reshape Political Communication

https://dx.doi.org/10.33774/apsa-2025-whhvk-v2?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

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All or Nothing: Voting on Multiple Provision Ballot Measures

https://dx.doi.org/10.33774/apsa-2024-pr4th-v4?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

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Navigating Cross-Pressures: Acculturation and Latino Political Behavior

https://dx.doi.org/10.33774/apsa-2026-t3nw4?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

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All’s Well that Sims Well: Incorporating the Community of Inquiry Framework in an
Asynchronous Graduate Level Security Studies Simulation

https://dx.doi.org/10.33774/apsa-2025-32fsj-v3?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

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Democracy for Whom? Herrenvolk Origins and the Design of American Exclusion

https://dx.doi.org/10.33774/apsa-2026-4542v?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

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The Limits to Growth and Cold War Political Economy: Normative Structure in Global Systems Modeling

https://dx.doi.org/10.33774/apsa-2026-cj8z1?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

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The Myth of the Zero-Sum: Rethinking Acculturation in American Politics

https://dx.doi.org/10.33774/apsa-2026-n80vq?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

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AI Pandering: Constructing Diverging Political Realities through Conversation

https://dx.doi.org/10.33774/apsa-2026-ccvw9?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

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All or Nothing: Voting on Multiple Provision Ballot Measures

https://dx.doi.org/10.33774/apsa-2024-pr4th-v3?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

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US Public and Economic Coercion: A Constrained Choice Experiment (Stage 1 Registered Report)

https://dx.doi.org/10.33774/apsa-2025-jp1t6-v2?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

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Green Industrial Policy in the Voting Booth: The Electoral Effects of the Inflation Reduction Act

https://dx.doi.org/10.33774/apsa-2026-98gg9?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

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Disproportionality is Sensitive to the Number of Parties: A Note on the Gallagher Index and a New Normalised Measure

https://dx.doi.org/10.33774/apsa-2025-khfwb-v3?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

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The Race After the Race: How Candidates of Color Respond to Electoral Defeat

https://dx.doi.org/10.33774/apsa-2026-4z055?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

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Left Behind or Left In? Party Ideology and the Gender Gap in Candidate Persistence

https://dx.doi.org/10.33774/apsa-2026-9kn3c?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

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Multimethodology in Qualitative Social Science Research: Applications, Best Practices, and New Frontiers

https://dx.doi.org/10.33774/apsa-2026-msmwb?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

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Collaborative Resistance:
How Civil Society Replaced the State in Brazil’s Land Conflicts

https://dx.doi.org/10.33774/apsa-2026-rjzdw?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

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Revisiting Partisan Politics of Environmental Policy: How Labour Market Outsiders Weaken Left-wing Governments’ Eco-Friendliness

https://dx.doi.org/10.33774/apsa-2024-9cfm3-v3?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

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Could I Ever Lose Your Support? Unconditional Political Bias in the American Public

https://dx.doi.org/10.33774/apsa-2025-8h94m-v2?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

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Religious Divides as Diplomatic Tools: Islamism, Sectarianism, and MENA Public Opinion toward Regional Leaders

https://dx.doi.org/10.33774/apsa-2026-lq6lx-v2?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

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Quantitative Text Analysis in International Relations: A Review and Perspective

https://dx.doi.org/10.33774/apsa-2026-r09pb?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

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