Political Studies
Published by the Political Studies Association and Blackwell Publishing
Edited by:
Matthew Festenstein and Martin Smith
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 51/99 Political Science
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Political Studies is a leading international journal committed to the very highest standards of peer review that publishes academically rigorous and original work in all fields of politics and international relations. The editors encourage a pluralistic approach to political science and debate across the discipline. Political Studies aims to develop the most promising new work available and to facilitate professional communication in political science.
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2008 Winner of the Harrison Prize
James Tilley and Christopher Wlezien, 'Does Political Information Matter'
Political Studies Volume 56 Issue 1, pp 192-214.
Judges: Gary Marks - Convenor (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Hugh Ward (Essex) and Michael Laver (New York University)
Citation
This article conducts a fascinating survey experiment that sheds light on the effect of new information on voters' placements of political parties and on voters' self-placements. Instead of assuming that mass publics have a reasonably accurate fix on the issue positions adopted by political parties, Tilley and Wlezien probe the conditions under which this is true by carefully examining how party divisions, voter sophistication, and information interact to shape voters' perceptions.
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TopHighlights
Volume 57 issue 2
King Canute and the 'Problem' of Structure and Agency: On Times, Tides and Heresthetics
Colin Hay
Repairing Civil Society and Experimenting with Power: A Genealogy of Social Capital
Diana Coole
Volume 57 issue 1
Valence politics in Scotland: Towards an explanation of the 2007 election
Robert Johns, James Mitchell, David Denver and Charles Pattie
Volume 56 issue 4
Politics of Exception and Unease: Immigration, Asylum and Terrorism in Parliamentary Debates in the UK
Jef Huysmans and Alessandra Buonfino
A Realistic Utopia? Nancy Fraser Cosmopolitanism and the Making of a Just World Order
George Lawson
Volume 56 issue 3
Critical Mass Theory and Women's Political Representation
Sarah Childs and Mona Lena Krook
Volume 56 issue 2
Civic Orientations: Does Associational Type Matter?
William A. Maloney, Jan W. van Deth and Sigrid Roßteutscher
Trust Your Compatriots, but Count Your Change: The Roles of Trust, Mistrust, and Distrust in Democracy
Patti Tamara Lenard
Volume 56 issue 1
A Lockean Theory of Territory
Cara Nine
Volume 55 issue 4
For Queen and Company: the Role of Intelligence in the UK's Arms Trade
Robert Dover
Volume 55 issue 3
Turnout and Representation Bias in Post-Communist Europe
Stephen White and Ian McAllister
Volume 55 issue 2
Risk Sensitivity and Terrorism
James Lutz and Lawrence Kuznar
Turning up the Heat: Partisanship in Deliberative Innovation
Carolyn Hendriks, John Dryzek and Christian Hunold
Volume 55 issue 1
In Defence of Associative Political Obligations: Part Two
John Horton
Analysisng Reform: The House of Commons, 2001-5
Matthew Flinders
Fairness on the Day after Tomorrow: Justice, Reciprocity and Global Climate Change
Edward A. Page
Volume 54 issue 4
Coalitions of Contention: The Case of the WTO Protests in Seattle
Margaret Levi and Gillian H. Murphy
Prime Ministers, Presidentialism and Westminster Smokescreens
Mark Bevir and R. A. W. Rhodes
Volume 54 issue 3
In Defence of Associative Political Obligations: Part One
John Horton
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'The international range and standing of its contributors and the broad scope of its coverage mean that PS provides a snap shot of the best research across the whole field of political science as applied to the politics of every region of the world.'
Professor Richard Bellamy
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