Undecided voters represent a major challenge to political pollsters. Recently, political psychologists have proposed the use of implicit association tests (IAT) to measure implicit attitudes toward political parties and candidates and predict voting behavior of undecided voters. A number of studies have shown that both implicit and explicit (i.e., self-reported) attitudes contribute to the pred...

The article shows how judicial review has expanded around the globe from the United States, Western Europe, and Japan to become a regular feature of constitutional design in Africa and Asia. Although the formal power to exercise judicial review is now nearly universal in democratic states, courts have varied in the extent to which they are willing to exercise this power in practice. After decad...

We leverage innovative spatial modeling techniques and data on the precise geo-locations of more than 34,000 Constituency Development Fund (CDF) projects in Kenya to test whether MPs reward their supporters. We find only weak evidence that MPs channel projects disproportionately to areas inhabited by their political allies, once we control for other factors that affect where projects are placed...

Political scientists studying institutional development face the challenge of accounting for both continuity and change over time. Models of path dependence based on increasing returns, inspired by the example of the QWERTY typewriter keyboard, have played an important role in the analysis of institutional continuity, but they have been criticized for their inability to accommodate change. In t...

To what extent do individuals seek to craft an information environment that reflects their political predispositions? Unprecedented search and filtering capabilities facilitated by new information technologies mean that individuals’ decisions regarding their information exposure are more important than ever. This paper presents data from two complementary projects to address the selective expos...

Krampe, F. 2016. Building Sustainable Peace. Understanding the Linkages between Social, Political, and Ecological Processes in Post-War Countries. Report / Department of Peace and Conflict Research 110. 45 pp. Uppsala: Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University. ISBN 978-91-506-2584-4. Post-war countries are among the most difficult policy arenas for international and domesti...