The Journal of Politics

Volume 69, Issue 4 (November 2007)

All articles available from Blackwell Publishing.


Articles:

“The Scientification of the Study of Politics:  Some Observations on the Behavioral Evolution in Political Science”
Presidential Address by Jon R. Bond [More]

“Historical Legacies and Post-Communist Regime Change”
By Grigore Pop-Eleches [More]

“Ancestral War and the Evolutionary Origins of ‘Heroism’”
By Oleg Smirnov, Holly Arrow, Doug Kennett and John Orbell [More]

“How Does Social Capital Grow? Comparing Levels across Seven Years in 61 Villages of Rajasthan, India”
By Anirudh Krishna [More]

“Interpreting Iraq: Partisanship and the Meaning of Facts”
By Brian J. Gaines, James H. Kuklinski, Paul J. Quirk, Buddy Peyton and Jay Verkuilen [More]

“Assuming the Cost of War: Events, Elites, and American Public Support for Military Conflict”
By Adam J. Berinsky [More]

“Accountability Debates: The Federalists, the Anti-Federalists, and Democratic Deficits”
By Craig Borowiak [More]

“On the Pedagogical Motive for Esoteric Writing”
By Arthur M. Melzer [More]

“The Unequal Representation of Latinos and Whites”
By John D. Griffin and Brian Newman [More]

“Turnout, Polarization, and Duverger’s Law”
By Steven Callander and Catherine H. Wilson  [More]

“Consumption or Investment: On Motivations for Political Giving”
By Sanford C. Gordon, Catherine Hafer and Dimitri Landa  [More]

“Testing Pendleton's Premise:  Do Political Appointees Make Worse Bureaucrats?”
By David E. Lewis [More]

“Strange Bedfellows: The Strategic Dynamics of Major Power Military Interventions”
By Stephen E. Gent 

“United States Economic Aid and Repression: The Opportunity Cost Argument”
By Douglas M. Gibler

“Alliance Obligations and the Duration of Peace between Allies”
By Andrew G. Long, Timothy Nordstrom and Kyeonghi Baek  [More]

“Terminating Alliances:  Why do States Abrogate Agreements?”
By Brett Ashley Leeds and Burcu Savun  [More]

“Representation in New Democracies: Party Stances on European Integration in Post-Communist Eastern Europe”
By Robert Rohrschneider and Stephen Whitefield [More]

“Voting in State Supreme Court Elections: Competition and Context as Democratic Incentives”
By Melinda Gann Hall [More]

“Mass Media and the Public's Assessments of Presidential Candidates, 1952-2000”
By Martin Gilens, Lynn Vavreck and Martin Cohen [More]

“Priming, Performance, and the Dynamics of Political Trust”
By Marc J. Hetherington and Thomas J. Rudolph

“What's Good for the Goose is Bad for the Gander:  Negative Advertising, Partisanship and Turnout”
By Daniel Stevens, John Sullivan, Barbara Allen and Dean Alger

“The Effects of Negative Political Campaigns: A Meta-Analytic Reassessment”
By Richard R. Lau, Lee Sigelman and Ivy Brown Rovner [More]