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The American Journal of Political Science
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Houston, Texas 77005-1827
Email: ajps@rice.edu
Phone: USA 001-713-348-2261

Welcome

The American Journal of Political Science is committed to significant advances in knowledge and understanding of citizenship, governance, and politics, and to the public value of political science research. AJPS is the official journal of the Midwest Political Science Association.

The Journal has been published since May, 1957 and is published in January, April, July, and October each year.

AJPS is published by Blackwell Publishing and supported by the Department of Political Science , the School of Social Sciences, and The Office of the Provost at Rice University.


Editor Rick K. Wilson, Rice University

Associate Editors Matt Barreto, University of Washington; Elisabeth Gerber, University of Michigan; Jim Granato, University of Houston; Ashley Leeds, Rice University; John Patty, Washington University at St. Louis; Randy Stevenson, Rice University; Michelle Taylor-Robinson, Texas A&M University

Assistant Editor Susan M. Meyer, The Ohio State University

Production Editor Sharon Scalzo, Blackwell Publishing

The Editorial Board

The Editorial Office Nadia Hamid, Assistant to the Editor; Jason Eichorst, Editorial Assistant; Aleksander Ksiazkiewicz, Editorial Assistant; James Hedrick, Editorial Assistant

Office Hours Monday - Friday, 9:30 - 6:00 p.m. CST.
AJPS will close at 6:00 p.m. CST on July 15 and reopen at 8:00 a.m. CST on August 16. AJPS will also close at 6:00 p.m. CST on December 15 and reopen at 8:00 a.m. CST on January 6.

Office Contact Email: ajps@rice.edu, Telephone: USA 001-713-348-2261

Note that all submissions are processed through Editorial Manager©.

If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

AJPS 56.1 - January 2012

  • Social Welfare as Small-Scale Help: On the Evolved Roots of the Deservingness Heuristic: Michael Bang Petersen
  • Biology, Ideology and Epistemology: How Do We Know Political Attitudes Are Inherited and Why Should We Care?: Kevin Smith, John R. Alford, Peter K. Hatemi, Carolyn Funk and John R. Hibbing
  • Correlation not Causation: The Relationship Between Personality Traits and Political Ideologies: Peter K. Hatemi, Brad Verhulst and Lindon J. Eaves
  • Polarizing Cues: Stephen P. Nicholson
  • Policy-Specific Information and Informal Agenda Power: Kenneth W. Shotts and Alexander V. Hirsch
  • US Treaty-Making with American Indians: Institutional Change and Relative Power, 1784-1911: Arthur Spirling
  • The Complications of Controlling Bureaucratic Timing: FDA Review Deadlines and Postmarket Drug Safety: Daniel Carpenter, Susan Moffitt, Jacqueline Chattopadhyay and Clayton Nall
  • The Hidden Relationship Among Redistricting, Race, and Participation: Danny Hayes and Seth C. McKee
  • Welfare Policymaking and Intersections of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in U.S. State Legislatures: Beth Reingold and Adrienne R. Smith
  • The Democratic Deficit in the States: Justin Phillips and Jeffrey Lax
  • Who Takes the Blame? The Strategic Effects of Collateral Damage: Jacob N. Shapiro and Luke N. Condra
  • Effective Foreign Aid Following Civil War: The Nonstrategic-Desperation Hypothesis: Desha M. Girod
  • Vote Buying and Social Desirability Bias: Experimental Evidence from Nicaragua: David W. Nickerson, Ezequiel Gonzalez-Ocantos, Chad Kiewiet de Jonge, Carlos Melendez and Javier Osorio
  • A Statistical Method for Empirical Testing of Competing Theories: Dustin Tingley and Kosuke Imai
  • Understanding the Past: Statistical Analysis of Causal Attribution: Teppei Yamamoto
  • The Product and Difference Fallacies for Indirect Effects: Adam Glynn

  • See the current issue at Wiley-Blackwell.