PSRM Journal

⚖️ Can felon voting rules affect prosecutions?

➡️ Simpson & @SYntiso find that after Virginia’s 2016 voting rights reform, charge severity and sentences increased for defendants politically unaligned with prosecutors, but decreased for aligned defendants doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2…

👩‍⚖️ Do larger polities hinder women’s representation?

➡️ Gruneau, Teorell & Vernby find that municipal amalgamations slow gains in women’s representation as populations outgrow council sizes. Adding seats mitigates—but does not erase—the effect doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2…

🇸🇳Can informal workers be mobilized away from clientelism toward programmatic politics?

➡️@abhitbhandari, Borba & Gottlieb find that priming workers' coordination capacity weakens clientelism, leading to political disengagement, not programmatic support doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2…

🚙Can everyday encounters with foreign brands shape political attitudes?

➡️ @gonzalezrostani & Jude C. Hays find that exposure to foreign car brands raises opposition to trade and immigration and support for Trump among nationalists, but not cosmopolitans doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2…

🏘️ Does racial bias shape opposition to new housing construction?
➡️ @cnbecker14 finds that factorial experiments show little evidence of racial bias, while a list experiment reveals concerns about racial change among a meaningful share of respondents doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2…