Volume 70, Issue 1 (January 2026)

e-ISSN : 1540-5907

Content:

1. Fiscal legibility and state development: Theory and evidence from colonial Mexico

2. Competence and advice
3. Can foreign aid reduce the desire to emigrate? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial
4. Correcting misperceptions about ethno-racial discrimination: The limits of evidence-based awareness raising to promote support for equal-treatment policies
5. Rethinking the imperative mandate: Toward a better balance between independence and accountability
6. Differentially private survey research
7. Populism and the rule of law: The importance of institutional legacies
8. The institutional foundations of the power to persuade
9. Can Americans’ trust in local news be trusted? The emergence, sources, and implications of the local news trust advantage
10. Can interest groups influence elections? Evidence from unions in Great Britain, 1900–2019
11. Constraining to deter
12. Designing Confucian democracy: A semi-parliamentarian framework
13. How budget trade-offs undermine electoral incentives to build public housing