The Journal of Politics

Volume 71, Issue 1 (January 2009)

“A New Partisan Voter”
By Joseph Bafumi and Robert Y. Shapiro

"Evolutionary Psychological Foundations of Civil Wars"
By Satoshi Kanazawa

“Risky but Rational: War as an Institutionally-Induced Gamble”
By H. E. Goemans and Mark Fey

“A Model of the Endogenous Development of Judicial Institutions in Federal and International Systems”
By Clifford James Carrubba

“Congressmen of the Silent South: The Persistence of Southern Racial Liberals, 1949–1964”
By Timothy Werner

“Friends and Enemies, Slaves and Masters: Fanaticism, Wendell Phillips, and the Limits of Democratic Theory”
By Joel Olson

“The Social Theory of Mass Politics”
By Jonathan White

"When Politics Becomes Protest: Black Veterans and Political Activism in the Postwar South"
By Christopher S. Parker

“Gerrymandering – Vietnamese Style: Escaping the Partial Reform Equilibrium in a Non-Democratic Regime”
By Edmund Malesky

“The Diversity Discount: When Increasing Ethnic and Racial Diversity Prevents Tax Increases”
By Daniel J. Hopkins

“Descriptive Social Norms and Motivation to Vote: Everybody’s Voting and so Should You”
By Alan S. Gerber and Todd Rogers

“The Politics of Diffusion: Salience, Complexity, and the Adoption Rate of Policies in the American States”
By Sean Nicholson-Crotty

“Who do European Parties Represent?  How Western European Parties Represent the Policy Preferences of Opinion Leaders”
By James Adams and Lawrence Ezrow

“The Tenth Justice? Consequences of Politicization in the Solicitor General's Office”
By Patrick C. Wohlfarth

“Time is of the Essence: How and When Do Past Election Results Matter”
By Zeynep Somer-Topcu

“Explaining Processes of Institutional Opinion Leadership”
By Brandon Bartels

“Genetic Sources of the Gender Gap”
By Peter K. Hatemi, Sarah Medland and Lindon Eaves

“Representation and American Governing Institutions”
By John D. Wilkerson, Bryan D. Jones and Heather Larsen-Price

“Labor (Im)mobility and the Politics of Trade Protection in Majoritarian Democracies”
By Bumba Mukherjee, Dale Smith and Quan Li

“Aggregate Dynamics of Campaigns”
By Janet Box-Steffensmeier, David Darmofal and Christian Farrell

"Vote Switching in the U.S. House"
By Rodolfo Espino and David T. Canon

“Why Primaries in Latin American Presidential Elections?”
By Ozge Kemahlioglu, Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro and Shigeo Hirano