JOP — 2026-07-06
Original Indirect Influence: How Elite Attacks on Information Providers Affect Public Opinion Formation
Erik Peterson, Allison M.N. Archer, Kishan Bhakta, Sho Izumisawa
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
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. 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
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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
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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
JOP 88/3 pp. 1175-1185 2026-07-01 Original The Compleat Economic Voter in Belgium: Channels of Accountability in a Complex Multilevel Government System
Martin Okolikj, Marc Hooghe, Michael S. Lewis-Beck
JOP 88/3 pp. 1258-1263 2026-07-01 Original Testing the Compensatory Theory: A Survey Experiment on COVID-19 and Redistributive Preferences in the UK
Mariana Alvarado, Pablo Querubin, Kenneth Scheve, David Stasavage
AJPS — 2026-07-01
Original State surveillance and collective dissent
Gaétan Nandong
Abstract
Abstract State surveillance facilitates the collection of intelligence on dissidents while simultaneously providing information about the value of the status quo. I study this trade‐off in a context where an uninformed government must decide whether to repress. Because citizens expect more informed governments to enact greater repression, autocratic surveillance can create a climate of fear. However, surveillance can also stimulate dissent when citizens have access to public information. State surveillance gives citizens an opportunity to coordinate, even in the absence of a preference for such coordination. Surveillance can amplify dissent by enhancing citizens' motivations for political activism aimed at drawing the government's attention to political and economic issues. Coordination distorts government learning, resulting in lower expected levels of repression. The analysis further indicates that the effectiveness of advanced surveillance technology depends on expectations regarding repression, thereby underscoring a psychological aspect of state control.
WP 78/3 pp. 602-641 2026-07-01 Original South-South Immigration and Redistribution Preferences: Evidence from Colombia
Josep Serrano-Serrat, Ignacio Jurado
Abstract
abstract: Research on the effects of immigration on redistribution preferences mostly focuses on Western countries and neglects the Global South. The authors argue that immigration shocks may have different effects in South-South migration than they do in South-North contexts. On one hand, the effects should be more muted in the former due to minimal cultural differences and limited development of the welfare state. On the other hand, the impact might be larger due to high economic inequality and scarce resources. To investigate these differences, the authors follow a two-fold strategy. First, they exploit the 2015 Venezuelan immigration shock in Colombia using a difference-in-differences strategy, complemented by an instrumental variable. The authors find null-to-positive effects. Second, a survey experiment reveals that priming citizens on immigration has positive effects on citizens’ social spending preferences. The authors attribute this effect to deservingness considerations. These results challenge some prevailing theories and sug-gest that increased immigration does not necessarily reduce redistribution preferences in South-South contexts.