• #7 (Race 1/5) "The Race Project: Researching race in the social sciences researchers, measures, and scope of studies" by John A. Garcia
    Dec 5 2022

    How have social scientists conceptualized race over the past 60 years? John A. Garcia points us to a number of approaches to race, including self-identification, ascription, and phenotype. He suggests how we might move forward in making our empirical study of race match the robustness of our theorizing.

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    57 mins
  • #6 "This One’s for the Boys: How Gendered Political Socialization Limits Girls’ Political Ambition and Interest"
    Nov 29 2022

    In the final episode of the APSR series, I review the most impactful article from the May 2022 issue. This article comes from a number of scholars: Angela L. Bos, Jill S. Greenlee, Mirya R. Holman, Zoe M. Oxley, and J. Celeste Lay.

    JILL S. GREENLEE

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    56 mins
  • #5 "Authoritarian Rallying as Reputational Cascade? Evidence from Putin’s Popularity Surge after Crimea" by Henry E. Hale
    Nov 14 2022

    When popularity surges for an authoritarian ruler, are the presented numbers accurate? Is the government lying about how much support there is? Or, is the government reporting the actual numbers, but people are lying? In this study, Hale shows us the degree to which people may be lying about their support.

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    55 mins
  • #4 “The Long-Term Effects of Oppression: Prussia, Political Catholicism, and the Alternative für Deutschland” by Lukas Haffert
    Oct 31 2022

    Can oppression from more than a century ago still have political consequences today? If it did, how would we measure it? In this article, Lukas Haffert looks at the "Catholic Milieu" in former Prussia and its continuing political legacy.

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    51 mins
  • #3 Does State Repression Spark Protests? Evidence from Secret Police Surveillance in Communist Poland by Anselm Hager and Krzysztof Krakowski
    Oct 25 2022

    Does state repression inspire counter-movements? Or, does state repression de-incentivize the mobilization of counter-movments? In this week's episode we explore this novel contribution to the literature on the repression-mobilization puzzle.

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    52 mins
  • # 2 "The Effect of Television Advertising in United States Elections" by John Sides, Lynn Vavreck, and Christopher Warshaw
    Oct 15 2022

    The effect of television advertisements in presidential elections has been welll-studied, but the effect of television advertisements in down ballot elections is an understudied area. This research finds television advertisements to be much more effective at persuading, not mobilizing, voters in down-ballot elections, than presidential elections.

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    52 mins
  • #1 "How do Electoral Incentives Affect Legislator Behavior? Evidence from U.S. State Legislatures" by Alexander Fouirnaies and Andrew B. Hall
    Oct 9 2022

    In this episode I begin a six episode series that covers the six most impactful (as measured by Alt Metric) articles from the May 2022 issue of the APSR. Today's article explores how electoral incentives, term limits specifically, affect representative productivity.

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    1 hr and 4 mins