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GOV 39/3 2026-07-02 Original Regulatory Governance in the Era of Populist Ascendancy: A Tug‐of‐War Between Independent Public Authorities and Central Government in Greece

JPART — 2026-07-02 Original Organizational strategies for system robustness: how managers navigate the institutional architecture of complex systems Adam Wiechman, Aaron Deslatte, Elizabeth A Koebele, Margaret Garcia, John M Anderies

AJPS — 2026-07-02 Original Bureaucrat assignments as instruments of political control: Theory and evidence from land administration officials in India Anustubh Agnihotri, Aditya Dasgupta, Devesh Kapur

JOP 88/3 pp. 1130-1144 2026-07-01 Original Who’s Persuasive? Understanding Citizen-to-Citizen Efforts to Change Minds Martin Naunov, Carlos Rueda-Cañón, Timothy J. Ryan

WP 78/3 pp. 419-458 2026-07-01 Original Who Sets the Agenda? Diplomatic Experience and Small Power Influence in the United Nations Sabrina B. Arias Abstract abstract: Why are some small powers effective in setting the UN agenda, even in the face of large power opposition? The author argues that small states are more likely to be represented by experienced diplomats, who, over time, accumulate influence that can be deployed to shape the international organization’s agenda. To test these claims, the author assembled a data set of proposed agenda items and the tenure of all states’ ambassadors from 1946 to 2018 and conducted interviews with diplomats from forty-nine states. The author finds that smaller powers have more diplomatic experience than larger powers; that individuals with more diplomatic experience are more successful at agenda setting even when accounting for material power; and that random shocks to ambassadorial tenure, such as the death of an ambassador, have negative effects on diplomatic experience and effectiveness. These insights contribute to understanding the role of individuals and diplomacy in international relations and the ways in which small powers influence international politics.

JOP 88/3 pp. 1066-1081 2026-07-01 Original Universal Mail Ballot Delivery Boosts Turnout: The Causal Effects of Sending Mail Ballots to All Registered Voters R. Michael Alvarez, Yimeng Li

JOP 88/3 pp. 1231-1244 2026-07-01 Original Understanding Resourcing Trade-Offs in International Organizations: Evidence from an Elite Survey Experiment Mirko Heinzel, Bernhard Reinsberg, Christian Siauwijaya Abstract International organizations (IOs) are mandated to address some of the most important global challenges under intense budget scarcity. In recent years, they expanded their funding base through a greater reliance on earmarked voluntary contributions by member states and nonstate actors. Critics warn that earmarked funding creates an important trade-off: IOs can do more with earmarked funding but have less control over what they do and do it less well. In this registered report, we probe how staff evaluate different types of earmarking through a novel elite survey experiment with staff from six United Nations organizations. We show that staff prefer earmarking for their own area of work over other types of earmarking. However, these preferences do not affect the funding amount they deem as appropriate or the overheads they expect their organization to charge. Our study provides important insights for debates on the resourcing of IOs and the motivations of international bureaucrats.

JOP 88/3 pp. 952-966 2026-07-01 Original Toward Understanding Condonation of Gender-Based Violence: The Interaction of Patriarchal Values and Contextual Elements of Violence Against Women James L. Gibson, Amanda Gouws

WP 78/3 pp. 459-508 2026-07-01 Original The Myth of the Traditional Gender Gap? Evidence from Catholic Countries Evelyne Brie, Dawn Langan Teele Abstract abstract: In rich democracies today, women are less conservative than men. Yet for most of the twentieth century, politicians, pundits, and scholars believed that family life and religiosity tied women to conservative causes and parties. Recent scholarship has reexamined this traditional gender gap hypothesis but has done so in cases in which electorate-wide shifts to the left make it least likely that a conservative gender gap would emerge. This article scrutinizes a hard case, Quebec, a Catholic province in Canada that experienced a dramatic shift to the right after suffrage. Using Gallup polls and ecological inference techniques, the authors show that political geography drove gender preference gaps, with rural women voting more conservatively, and urban women more liberally, than men. In two other Catholic contexts, Austria and Argentina, they show that after suffrage women were not more conservative than men in general, undermining the traditional gender gap thesis in several crucial cases.

JOP 88/3 pp. 998-1010 2026-07-01 Original The Minimal Effects of Making Local News Free: Evidence from a Field Experiment Andrew Trexler Abstract （原文未提供摘要） 中文 让地方新闻免费的最小效应：来自实地实验的证据 Andrew Trexler 摘要 原文未提供摘要 关键词 地方新闻、免费访问、实地实验、媒体效应、新闻消费 DOI: 10.1086/735872