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The JOP is the flagship journal of the SPSA, published by the University of Chicago Press. Editors-in-Chief: Timothy Hellwig & Timothy Nokken. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/jop/current

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"When Conservatives See Red but Liberals Feel Blue: Labeler Characteristics and Variation in Content Annotation" by Nora Webb Williams, Andreu Casas, Kevin Aslett, and John Wilkerson.

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journals.uchicago.eduWhen Conservatives See Red but Liberals Feel Blue: Labeler Characteristics and Variation in Content Annotation | The Journal of Politics: Vol 88, No 2AbstractHuman annotation of data, including texts and images, is a bedrock of political science research. Yet, we often fail to consider how the identities of our labelers may systematically affect th...
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"“It’s a Gender Thing”: The Wrongdoing of Stereotype Articulation" by Lasse Nielsen and Mathilde Cecchini.

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journals.uchicago.edu“It’s a Gender Thing”: The Wrongdoing of Stereotype Articulation | The Journal of Politics: Vol 88, No 2In this article, we study wrongdoing features of discrimination. We develop grounded moral theory as an analytical tool to explore the wrongdoing of stereotype articulations and apply that to cases of...
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"The Role of Issue Salience and Competitive Advantages in Spatial Models of Political Competition" by Anna-Sophie Kurella and Milena Rapp.

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journals.uchicago.eduThe Role of Issue Salience and Competitive Advantages in Spatial Models of Political Competition | The Journal of Politics: Vol 88, No 2The empirical evidence within the field of party competition suggests that the success of far-right parties is tightly connected to issue salience of immigration policies. However, it is still unclear...
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"Intraparty Competition, Geographic Responsiveness, and Incumbent Deselection in Closed-List Proportional Representation" by Jochen Rehmert.

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journals.uchicago.eduIntraparty Competition, Geographic Responsiveness, and Incumbent Deselection in Closed-List Proportional Representation | The Journal of Politics: Vol 88, No 2Closed-list proportional representation is considered to produce politicians engaged in programmatic, party-oriented behavior. Personal vote-seeking and geographic responsiveness, however, are attribu...
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"The Politicization of Bureaucrats: Evidence from Brazil" by Anderson Frey and Rogerio Santarrosa.

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journals.uchicago.eduThe Politicization of Bureaucrats: Evidence from Brazil | The Journal of Politics: Vol 88, No 2In developing countries, incumbents commonly exercise political influence over bureaucrats through monitoring or patronage hiring. We investigate a new politicization channel: a phenomenon where burea...
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"Who Should Be the Master of My Words? On Political Authority and Linguistic Justice" by Sergi Morales-Gálvez.

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journals.uchicago.eduWho Should Be the Master of My Words? On Political Authority and Linguistic Justice | The Journal of Politics: Vol 88, No 2Most scholars working on linguistic justice within political theory deal with questions of distributive justice but not with the question as to who should have the authority to decide over linguistic ...
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"Do External Threats Reduce Affective Polarization? An Experiment on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine" by Jonas Pilgaard Kaiser and Markus Seier.

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journals.uchicago.eduDo External Threats Reduce Affective Polarization? An Experiment on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine | The Journal of Politics: Vol 88, No 2In many countries, partisans have become increasingly biased in how they evaluate others based on political affiliation. We suggest that this increase in affective polarization may in part be caused by changes in the global power distribution that caused many countries to experience a long period without external (military) threats. To study the importance of external threats, we conduct a priming experiment to examine how making Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 salient causally influences affective polarization and collaboration in the United States. We find that priming Americans with Russia’s military aggression leads to a modest reduction in affective polarization and an increase in cooperativeness as measured by behavior in an incentivized coordination game. Surprisingly, the effect of making Russia’s invasion salient does not depend on perceived cross-party disagreement about the conflict. These results suggest that researchers should also consider international relations to understand within-country polarization and willingness to collaborate.
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