Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy
Editor-in-chief
Jeffery A. Jenkins
University of Southern California
Associate Editors
Sean Gailmard, University of California, Berkeley
Jennifer Gandhi, Yale University
John Matsusaka, University of Southern California
Emily Hencken Ritter, Vanderbilt University
Print ISSN: 2689-4823
Online ISSN: 2689-4815
Publisher
Zac Rolnik
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Volume 6, Issue 3–4 Special Issue: Artificial Intelligence and the Study of Political Institutions
Joseph R. Loffredo | Suyeol Yun
Agent-Enhanced Large Language Models for Researching Political Institutions
Volume 6, Issue 3–4 Special Issue: Artificial Intelligence and the Study of Political Institutions
Cantay Caliskan | Junhua Huang | Yiyang Huang | Ruoxuan Lin | Wanting Shan
Using Generative AI to Calculate Party Positions: A Comparison of Human Experts and Large Language Models
Volume 6, Issue 3–4 Special Issue: Artificial Intelligence and the Study of Political Institutions
Douglas Rice | Christopher Zorn
Divergence or Dysfunction? Using LLMs to Measure Disagreement on the U.S. Supreme Court
Volume 6, Issue 3–4 Special Issue: Artificial Intelligence and the Study of Political Institutions
Mitchell Bosley
Towards Qualitative Measurement at Scale: A Prompt-Engineering Framework for Large-Scale Analysis of Deliberative Quality in Parliamentary Debates
Volume 6, Issue 3–4 Special Issue: Artificial Intelligence and the Study of Political Institutions
L. Jason Anastasopoulos | Jie (Jason) Lian
Delegation Across Democracies: Using AI to Study Political Institutions at Scale
Volume 6, Issue 3–4 Special Issue: Artificial Intelligence and the Study of Political Institutions
Austin Bussing | Nicholas O. Howard | Joshua Y. Lerner
Can We Measure Legislative Complexity with LLMs?
Volume 6, Issue 3–4 Special Issue: Artificial Intelligence and the Study of Political Institutions
Kevin Foley
Rhetorical Representation: Measuring Voter Alignment with Legislative Speech
Volume 6, Issue 3–4 Special Issue: Artificial Intelligence and the Study of Political Institutions
Measuring the Policy Content of Congressional and American State Legislation Using Machine Learning
Open Access
Ethan Dee | Alex Garlick
Volume 6, Issue 2
Afiq bin Oslan | İpek Ece Şener
Displacement, Not Obstruction: Why Insecure Leaders Need Not Fear Free Media
Volume 6, Issue 2
Nicholas G. Napolio
Measuring Executive Agency Ideology Using Large Language Models
Volume 6, Issue 2
George A. Krause | Jason S. Byers
Executive Deference or Legislative Constraint? Senate Committees and the Exercise of Decentralized Authority over U.S. Executive Nominations
Volume 6, Issue 2
Nicole Baerg | Dominik Duell | Will Lowe
Central Bank Communication as Public Opinion?
Volume 6, Issue 1
Matthew D. Fails
Pain at the Pump, Pain at the Polls? Global Evidence on Election Timing, State Capacity, and Gasoline Prices
Volume 6, Issue 1
Adam Zelizer
How Widespread is Strategic Partisan Voting in Congress? Revisiting “Backward Induction in the Wild”
Volume 6, Issue 1
Glenn Wright | Benjamin Reilly | David Lublin
Assessing Alaska’s Top-4 Primary and Ranked Choice Voting Electoral Reform: More Moderate Winners, More Moderate Policy
Volume 6, Issue 1
Jamie L. Carson | Anthony J. Madonna | Mark E. Owens | Joel Sievert | Ryan D. Williamson
Building a Record: Amending Activity, Position Taking, and the Seventeenth Amendment
Volume 6, Issue 1
The Fiscal Politics of Turnover and Tenure: Partisan Competition and Interterm Cycles
Open Access
Joel W. Johnson
Volume 5, Issue 4 Special Issue: The Political Economy of Energy
Zachary Teti | Seth Blumsack
By A Show of (Which) Hands: Empirical Analysis of Regional Transmission Owner Stakeholder Voting
Volume 5, Issue 4 Special Issue: The Political Economy of Energy
L. Lynne Kiesling
The Pacing Problem: Using the IAD Framework to Model Technological and Institutional Change in a Regulated Industry
Volume 5, Issue 4 Special Issue: The Political Economy of Energy
Liam F. Beiser-McGrath
Energy Policy Preferences in Times of Crisis: Evidence from Survey Experiments in the UK
Volume 5, Issue 4 Special Issue: The Political Economy of Energy
Cesar B. Martinez-Alvarez
Political Institutions, Energy Transitions, and Air Quality: Evidence from Global Urban Areas
Volume 5, Issue 4 Special Issue: The Political Economy of Energy
Justin Melnick
Domestic Politics in the European Union’s Emissions Trading System: Evidence from Free Allowance Allocation
Volume 5, Issue 4 Special Issue: The Political Economy of Energy
Srinivas C. Parinandi | Sara Hoose | Hyodong Sohn
Pro-Carbon Policymaking in Renewable Portfolio Standards: An Empirical Assessment
Volume 5, Issue 3
All Candidate Primaries, Open Primaries, and Voter Turnout
Open Access
Nathan K. Micatka | Caroline J. Tolbert | Robert G. Boatright
Volume 5, Issue 3
Gary E. Hollibaugh Jr. | George A. Krause
Executive Appointee Reliability under Separated Powers: Senatorial Constraints on Executive Branch Leadership Appointments in U.S. Federal Agencies
Volume 5, Issue 2 Special Issue: The Political Economy of Native American Policy
NR Brouwer
Exploring the Influence of Tribal Governance Capacity: Evidence from Internet Availability in Indian Country
Volume 5, Issue 2 Special Issue: The Political Economy of Native American Policy
Joseph Warren
Environmental Conflict and Local Knowledge in Alaska Native Politics
Volume 5, Issue 2 Special Issue: The Political Economy of Native American Policy
Leslie Sanchez
Bargaining in the Shadow of Prior Appropriation: Concessions and Trade-Offs in Native American Water Settlement Negotiations
Volume 5, Issue 2 Special Issue: The Political Economy of Native American Policy
Melissa Rogers | Jean Schroedel | Joseph Dietrich
Federal Incarceration and Native American Felon Disenfranchisement in the US West
Volume 5, Issue 2 Special Issue: The Political Economy of Native American Policy
Jay N. Krehbiel
Examining Native American Support for Federal Indian Policy: Evidence from the Indian Child Welfare Act
Volume 5, Issue 2 Special Issue: The Political Economy of Native American Policy
Sonja Castañeda Dower
Assimilation and Delegation: A Formal Model of Federal-Tribal Dynamics
Volume 5, Issue 1 Special Issue - The Political Economy of Housing
Allison K. Cuttner | Ryan Hübert | B. Pablo Montagnes
The Public Meeting Paradox: How NIMBY-Dominated Public Meetings Can Enable New Housing
Volume 5, Issue 1 Special Issue - The Political Economy of Housing
Understanding Opposition to Apartment Buildings
Open Access
Martin Vinæs Larsen | Niels Nyholt
Volume 5, Issue 1 Special Issue - The Political Economy of Housing
Michael Hankinson | Asya Magazinnik | Anna Weissman
When Do Local Interest Groups Participate in the Housing Entitlement Process?
Volume 5, Issue 1 Special Issue - The Political Economy of Housing
Katherine Levine Einstein | Maxwell Palmer
How Affordable Housing Can Exclude: The Political Economy of Subsidized Housing
Volume 5, Issue 1 Special Issue - The Political Economy of Housing
David Foster | Joseph Warren
Liability for Homelessness
Volume 4, Issue 4 Special Issue - Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Cox and McCubbins’ Legislative Leviathan: Party Government in the House
John H. Aldrich | Gary W. Cox | Mathew D. McCubbins | David W. Rohde
Party and Policy in Lineland: A Theory of Conditional Party Cartels
Volume 4, Issue 4 Special Issue - Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Cox and McCubbins’ Legislative Leviathan: Party Government in the House
Pamela Ban
Information and Party Influence in the U.S. Congress
Volume 4, Issue 4 Special Issue - Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Cox and McCubbins’ Legislative Leviathan: Party Government in the House
Benjamin Kinnard | John W. Patty
Paved with Partisan Intentions: The Impressive and Disheartening Validity of Cox and McCubbins’s Legislative Leviathan
Volume 4, Issue 4 Special Issue - Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Cox and McCubbins’ Legislative Leviathan: Party Government in the House
Boris Shor | Michael R. Kistner
Comparing Leviathans: Agenda Influence in State Legislatures, 2011 to 2023
Volume 4, Issue 4 Special Issue - Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Cox and McCubbins’ Legislative Leviathan: Party Government in the House
Carlos Algara | Josh M. Ryan
The Electoral Costs of Legislative Action: Dynamic Partisanship and Agenda Control in the U.S. Congress
Volume 4, Issue 4 Special Issue - Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Cox and McCubbins’ Legislative Leviathan: Party Government in the House
Christian Fong
Entrenched Leviathans
Volume 4, Issue 3
Sebastian Saiegh
Political Fear and Loathing on Wall Street: Electoral Risk Hedging in the United States (1986–2020)
Volume 4, Issue 3
Julio A. Ramos Pastrana | Johabed G. Olvera | Claudia N. Avellaneda
Do Political Hawks Prioritize Different Policies Than Technocrats? Politicization and Governors’ Spending Priorities
Volume 4, Issue 3
John S. Ahlquist | Ben Ansell
Unemployment Insurance, Risk, and the Acquisition of Specific Skills: An Experimental Approach
Volume 4, Issue 2
Jan P. Vogler
How Do European Citizens Form their Views of the EU Public Administration? Exploring the Role of Heuristics
Volume 4, Issue 2
Guoer Liu
Where Are the Missing Dead? How Metrics Management Mitigates Official Data Misreporting in China
Volume 4, Issue 2
Qing Chang
Good Friends versus Best Friends: How Different Types of Political Connection Work in China
Volume 4, Issue 2
Jason A. MacDonald
The Rise and Fall of Congressional Oversight of the Bureaucracy: The U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, 1969-2018
Volume 4, Issue 1
Joel Sievert
Different Rules, Different Legislators? Direct and Indirect Elections to the U.S. Congress
Volume 3, Issue 3–4 Special Issue - The Political Economy of Polarization
Samuel Merrill, III | Bernard Grofman | Thomas Brunell
Identifying the “Downsian Ceiling”: When Does Polarization Make Appealing to One’s Base More Attractive than Moderating to the Center
Volume 3, Issue 3–4 Special Issue - The Political Economy of Polarization
Kemal Kıvanç Aköz | Ekim Arbatli | Dina Rosenberg
Divide and Conquer: Presidents, Parliaments, and Political Polarization during Electoral Campaigns
Volume 3, Issue 3–4 Special Issue - The Political Economy of Polarization
Dan Alexander | Asya Magazinnik
Income Inequality and Electoral Theories of Polarization
Volume 3, Issue 3–4 Special Issue - The Political Economy of Polarization
Boris Shor | Nolan McCarty
Two Decades of Polarization in American State Legislatures
Volume 3, Issue 3–4 Special Issue - The Political Economy of Polarization
Hong Min Park
Partisan Manipulation of Dimensionality and Party Polarization in the U.S. Congress
Volume 3, Issue 3–4 Special Issue - The Political Economy of Polarization
E. J. Fagan
Elite Polarization and Partisan Think Tanks
Volume 3, Issue 3–4 Special Issue - The Political Economy of Polarization
Jeremy C. Pope
How the Constitution Aggravates Polarized Politics: The Trap the Framers Left Us
Volume 3, Issue 3–4 Special Issue - The Political Economy of Polarization
Ipek Cinar | Monika Nalepa
Mass or Elite Polarization as the Driver of Authoritarian Backsliding? Evidence from 14 Polish Surveys (2005–2021)
Volume 3, Issue 3–4 Special Issue - The Political Economy of Polarization
Austin Bussing | Joshua Y. Lerner
Inducing Polarization? The Effect of Congressional Procedure and Partisan Lawmaking on Ideal Point Estimation
Volume 3, Issue 3–4 Special Issue - The Political Economy of Polarization
Daniel B. Magleby | Gregory Robinson | Matthew Walz
Polarization as a Function of Chamber Size
Volume 3, Issue 2
Scott F. Abramson | Michael J. Barber | Jeremy C. Pope
A Revolution of Rights in American Founding Documents
Volume 3, Issue 2
Vladimir Chlouba
Liberation Wars as Critical Junctures: Colonial Heritage and the Persistence of Inequality
Volume 3, Issue 2
Michael P. Olson | Albert H. Rivero
Appellate Court Influence over District Courts in the United States
Volume 3, Issue 2
Bryan Leonard | Brian Kogelmann
Does Equality Persist? Evidence from the Homestead Act
Volume 3, Issue 2
Stephen Ansolabehere | Jaclyn Kaslovsky | Michael P. Olson
Franchise Expansion and Legislative Representation in the Early United States
Volume 3, Issue 1 Special Issue - The Political Economy of Populism, Part II
Sirus H. Dehdari | Konstantinos Matakos | Jaakko Meriläinen | Janne Tukiainen
A Pink Slip for the Blue Reform: Is Selection, Experience, or Ideology the Elixir of Populists’ Survival?
Volume 3, Issue 1 Special Issue - The Political Economy of Populism, Part II
Francesc Amat | Emmy Lindstam
Democracy in Hard Times: Economic Decline, Social Capital, and Resilience Against Far-Right Nationalism
Volume 3, Issue 1 Special Issue - The Political Economy of Populism, Part II
David Foster
Credibility and Backlash
Volume 2, Issue 4
George A. Krause | Matthew Zarit
Selling Out? Contingent Politicization and Contracting Risk in U.S. Federal Procurements, 2001–2016
Volume 2, Issue 4
Pamela J. Clouser McCann | Ashley Jardina
When Rising Tides Don’t Lift All Boats Equally: Racial Inequality in Health Insurance after the Affordable Care Act
Volume 2, Issue 4
Ian R. Turner
Reviewing Procedure versus Judging Substance: How Increasing Bureaucratic Oversight Can Reduce Bureaucratic Accountability
Volume 2, Issue 3 Special Issue - The Political Economy of Populism, Part I
Beatrice Magistro | Lucas Owen | Nicolas Wittstock
Populist Support, Institutional Trust, and Gender: The Impact of Foreign-Imposed Austerity During the European Debt Crisis
Volume 2, Issue 3 Special Issue - The Political Economy of Populism, Part I
Massimo Pulejo
Quo Vadis? Refugee Centers and the Geographic Expansion of Far-Right Parties
Volume 2, Issue 3 Special Issue - The Political Economy of Populism, Part I
Betsy Sinclair | J. Andrew Sinclair
Primaries and Populism: Voter Efficacy, Champions, and Election Rules
Volume 2, Issue 3 Special Issue - The Political Economy of Populism, Part I
Populism and COVID-19: How Populist Governments (Mis)Handle the Pandemic
Open Access
Michael Bayerlein | Vanessa A. Boese | Scott Gates | Katrin Kamin | Syed Mansoob Murshed
Volume 2, Issue 3 Special Issue - The Political Economy of Populism, Part I
Didem Seyis | William B. Heller
Voter Support for Anti-Immigrant Populist Parties: The Effect of Economic Pessimism and “Out-Group” Immigration
Volume 2, Issue 2 Special Issue - Local Political Economy
Michael W. Sances
Do District Attorneys Represent Their Voters? Evidence from California's Era of Criminal Justice Reform
Volume 2, Issue 2 Special Issue - Local Political Economy
Maria Carreri | Julia Payson
What Makes a Good Local Leader? Evidence from U.S. Mayors and City Managers
Volume 2, Issue 2 Special Issue - Local Political Economy
Justin de Benedictis-Kessner
Strategic Partisans: Electoral Motivations and Partisanship in Local Government Communication
Volume 2, Issue 2 Special Issue - Local Political Economy
Carolyn Abott | Akheil Singla
Service Solvency and Quality of Life After Municipal Bankruptcy
Volume 2, Issue 2 Special Issue - Local Political Economy
Vladimir Kogan
Jurisdictional Competition, Market Power, and the Compensation of Public Employees
Volume 2, Issue 2 Special Issue - Local Political Economy
Rebecca Goldstein
Senior Citizens as a Pro-Police Interest Group
Volume 2, Issue 1 Special Issue - The Political Economy of Pandemics, Part II
Elaine K. Denny | David Dow | Diego Romero | Erik Wibbels
Economic Insecurity and Deportees' Decision to Re-migrate in a COVID-19 Era
Volume 2, Issue 1 Special Issue - The Political Economy of Pandemics, Part II
Alexander C. Furnas | Jesse M. Crosson | Geoffrey M. Lorenz
Pandemic Pluralism: Legislator Championing of Organized Interests in Response to COVID-19
Volume 2, Issue 1 Special Issue - The Political Economy of Pandemics, Part II
Jarosław Kantorowicz
Reverse Party Favoritism in Times of Pandemics: Evidence from Poland
Volume 2, Issue 1 Special Issue - The Political Economy of Pandemics, Part II
Jay N. Krehbiel | Sivaram Cheruvu
The COVID-19 Pandemic and Public Support for European Integration: Evidence from Germany
Volume 2, Issue 1 Special Issue - The Political Economy of Pandemics, Part II
Jesse M. Crosson | Srinivas C. Parinandi
Essential or Expedient? COVID-19 and Business Closures in the U.S. States
Volume 1, Issue 4 Special Issue - The Political Economy of Pandemics, Part I
Nicholas G. Napolio
Pork during Pandemics: Federal Spending and Public Health Crises
Volume 1, Issue 4 Special Issue - The Political Economy of Pandemics, Part I
Mirya R. Holman | Emily M. Farris | Jane Lawrence Sumner
Local Political Institutions and First-Mover Policy Responses to COVID-19
Volume 1, Issue 4 Special Issue - The Political Economy of Pandemics, Part I
Fatih Serkant Adiguzel | Asli Cansunar | Gozde Corekcioglu
Truth or Dare? Detecting Systematic Manipulation of COVID-19 Statistics
Volume 1, Issue 4 Special Issue - The Political Economy of Pandemics, Part I
Francisco Garfias | Emily A. Sellars
Epidemics, Rent Extraction, and the Value of Holding Office
Volume 1, Issue 4 Special Issue - The Political Economy of Pandemics, Part I
Olga Shvetsova | Andrei Zhirnov | Julie VanDusky-Allen | Abdul Basit Adeel | Michael Catalano | Olivia Catalano | Frank Giannelli | Ezgi Muftuoglu | Tara Riggs | Mehmet Halit Sezgin | Naveed Tahir | Tianyi Zhao
Institutional Origins of Protective COVID-19 Public Health Policy Responses: Informational and Authority Redundancies and Policy Stringency
Volume 1, Issue 4 Special Issue - The Political Economy of Pandemics, Part I
Mark E. Owens | Renee M. Johnson
Emergency Response, Public Behavior, and the Effectiveness of Texas Counties in a Pandemic
Volume 1, Issue 4 Special Issue - The Political Economy of Pandemics, Part I
William T. Bianco | Eric R. Schmidt
Congressional Credit-Claiming for COVID-19 Assistance: How Home Styles Adapt to Local Context
Volume 1, Issue 4 Special Issue - The Political Economy of Pandemics, Part I
Desiree Desierto | Mark Koyama
Health vs. Economy: Politically Optimal Pandemic Policy
Volume 1, Issue 3 Special Issue - Frontiers in Political Economy
Jessica Trounstine
Local Political Economy: The State of the Field: Past, Present, and Future
Volume 1, Issue 3 Special Issue - Frontiers in Political Economy
Dean Knox | Jonathan Mummolo
Toward a General Causal Framework for the Study of Racial Bias in Policing
Volume 1, Issue 3 Special Issue - Frontiers in Political Economy
John W. Patty | Elizabeth Maggie Penn
Identity and Information in Organizations
Volume 1, Issue 3 Special Issue - Frontiers in Political Economy
Francesco Trebbi | Eric Weese | Austin L. Wright | Andrew Shaver
Insurgent Learning
Volume 1, Issue 3 Special Issue - Frontiers in Political Economy
George A. Krause
Why Is Political Economy a Subfield in Comparative Politics and International Relations, but Not in American Politics? Lessons from the Past, Prescriptions for the Future
Volume 1, Issue 3 Special Issue - Frontiers in Political Economy
Scott Ashworth | Anthony Fowler
Electorates versus Voters
Volume 1, Issue 2 Special Issue - Election Administration and Technology
Charles Stewart III | James Dunham
Attitudes toward Voting Technology, 2012–2019
Volume 1, Issue 2 Special Issue - Election Administration and Technology
Ryan D. Williamson | Kathleen Hale | Mitchell Brown
Security and Integrity: Administrative Structure, Capacity, and American Elections
Volume 1, Issue 2 Special Issue - Election Administration and Technology
Andrew Menger | Robert M. Stein
How to Measure and Assess the Turnout Effects of Election Reforms
Volume 1, Issue 2 Special Issue - Election Administration and Technology
Edward B. Foley | Charles Stewart III
Explaining the Blue Shift in Election Canvassing
Volume 1, Issue 2 Special Issue - Election Administration and Technology
Christian R. Grose
Reducing Legislative Polarization: Top-Two and Open Primaries Are Associated with More Moderate Legislators
Volume 1, Issue 2 Special Issue - Election Administration and Technology
D. Sunshine Hillygus | Jesse Lopez
Easy as 1, 2, 3? Challenges of the 2020 Census and Implications for Political Science
Volume 1, Issue 1 Special Issue - The Political Economy of Executive Politics
Rachel Augustine Potter
Providing Political Guidance? Agency Politicization and "As If" Policymaking
Volume 1, Issue 1 Special Issue - The Political Economy of Executive Politics
Jon C. Rogowski
The Administrative Presidency and Public Trust in Bureaucracy
Volume 1, Issue 1 Special Issue - The Political Economy of Executive Politics
Sharece Thrower
Presidential Signing Statements and Separation of Powers Politics
Volume 1, Issue 1 Special Issue - The Political Economy of Executive Politics
Dino Christenson | Douglas Kriner
Beyond the Base: Presidents, Partisan Approval, and the Political Economy of Unilateral Action
Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy