AJPS — 2026-05-19
Original Breaking barriers: How an international treaty for women reduces the size of the informal economy
Chris Gahagan
Abstract
Abstract Prior research on the role the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) has improving women's outcomes has shown ratification results in increased political and social rights, yet no improvements in economic rights. I challenge prior findings by providing evidence that CEDAW improves women's economic rights by reducing gendered legal barriers to employment. I also demonstrate CEDAW has unexpected but desirable downstream consequences that further improve women's economic outcomes by facilitating movement from the informal to the formal economy. Through matching within a difference‐in‐differences design, I show ratifying countries experience a significant increase in women's equality of economic opportunity and a significant decrease in the size of the informal economy. These results hold under multiple robustness checks and placebo tests. By examining specific outcomes that are relevant to CEDAW, I offer greater insight into CEDAW's impact on women's economic outcomes than previous research has afforded.
JOP — 2026-05-18
Original Gender Quota Laws and Women in Cabinets
Tiffany Barnes, Giulia Venturini, Ana Catalano Weeks
Abstract
Do legislative gender quotas increase women’s presence in cabinets? Women remain underrepresented in political leadership worldwide. As a remedy, over 80 countries have adopted gender quotas, requiring parties to nominate or elect a minimum share of women. But can quotas have effects beyond the positions they directly target? We argue that quotas increase the presence of women in executive cabinets by expanding the pool of experienced female legislators. Using a global dataset (168 countries) from 1990 to 2021, we find gender quotas increase the share of women ministers by 15 percent relative to the average baseline–including increases in both high- and lowprestige portfolios. Consistent with a supply-side mechanism, effects are largest in parliamentary democracies—where ministers are often selected from parliament—and in countries that experienced the greatest increases in women’s legislative representation post-quota. The findings suggest quotas can generate meaningful spillover effects at the highest levels of government.
JOP — 2026-05-18
Original Cadre networks and bureaucratic careers in autocracies
Alexander De Juan, Felix Haass, Jan H. Pierskalla
Abstract
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中文 威权政体中的干部网络与官僚职业生涯
Alexander De Juan, Felix Haass, Jan H. Pierskalla
CQ 266 pp. 309-324 2026-05-11 Original Ideology Without Unity: The Rhizomatic Logic of Xi Jinping Thought
Jean Christopher Mittelstaedt
Abstract
Abstract This article reconceptualizes Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics (Xi Thought hereafter) not as a coherent doctrine but as a rhizomatic ideological formation. Drawing on the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, it treats Xi Thought as a configuration in which coherence is not presupposed but produced through the continual recombining of fragments across institutional sites. Based on an analysis of official publications, including collected works, excerpt volumes and study readers, the article shows how Xi’s speeches are disassembled and reassembled across domains such as law, economy, diplomacy and culture. These recompositions render ideology modular and resilient, allowing elements to be activated, re-weighted or sidelined without destabilizing the system as a whole. The article further argues that ideological coherence is generated through distributed and compulsory participation by Party and state actors, who are required to embed fragments of Xi Thought into institutional practice. Conceptualizing Xi Thought as a rhizome shifts analysis from doctrinal meaning to the operational logic through which ideology acquires administrative force within the Chinese party-state.
CQ 266 pp. 481-490 2026-05-11 Original Discovering Controversies through Reversions: A Text-based Analysis of China’s Two-phase Bill Changes
Jiying Jiang
JCC — pp. 1-16 2026-05-07 Original A Risk-Centered Approach to Data Privacy: Interpreting the Birth of China’s Personal Information Protection Law
GOV 39/3 2026-05-04
Original The Financialization of European Social Care: A Descriptive Network Analysis
Simon Demuynck, Wouter Van Dooren
Abstract
ABSTRACT Social services in Europe underwent significant changes in recent decades. Using our unique dataset covering the ownership networks of over 100,000 child care, disability care, and care for older adults facilities across 27 EU countries and the UK, we conduct a macro‐level network analysis to answer (1) who the main financial industry actors are in European social care markets; (2) where in these markets financialization is taking place; and (3) what position the financial industry occupies in the ownership networks of social care. The analysis reveals how a significant part of European social service facilities across differing types of European welfare states is indirectly owned by financial corporations. We demonstrate that network approaches can provide a more effective method for computing variables related to service ownership, as they capture indirect ownership links not visible in traditional datasets. The highly networked and financialized nature of social provision raises questions about systemic risks in social care sectors. Moreover, financialization could also erode the government's ability to achieve public goals in social care.
JOP — 2026-04-29
Original The Mobilizing Potential of Mass Emigration: Experimental Evidence from Honduras
Jesse Acevedo, Francisca Castro
Abstract
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中文 大规模移民的动员潜力：来自洪都拉斯的实验证据
Jesse Acevedo, Francisca Castro
摘要
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关键词
大规模移民、移民、政治动员、实验证据、洪都拉斯、比较政治
JOP — 2026-04-29
Original Shattered Pathways: Women’s Access to Interior Ministries in the Wake of Terrorism
Tiffany D. Barnes, Bomi Lee, Diana Z. O'Brien
JCC — pp. 1-19 2026-04-29 Original Divergent Pathways to “Digital China”: Unveiling Provincial Digital Agendas Under Top-Level Design