Working Papers
Parent: Institute of Governmental Studies
eScholarship stats: Breakdown by Item for June through September, 2026
| Item | Title | Total requests | Download | View-only | %Dnld |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9r45g86c | How the cases you choose affect the answers you get : selection bias in comparative politics | 1,606 | 554 | 1,052 | 34.5% |
| 96p3s213 | Reflections on the Transition from Elite to Mass to Universal Access: Forms and Phases of Higher Education in Modern Societies since WWII | 1,542 | 259 | 1,283 | 16.8% |
| 9s54f2mc | Political Similarity And Influence Between Husbands And Wives | 649 | 186 | 463 | 28.7% |
| 0tq3h4xv | The International Criminal Court and the United States: It's Not a Member. Should it Join Now? | 487 | 90 | 397 | 18.5% |
| 08s0f26b | Ronald Reagan and The New Conservative Populism | 482 | 50 | 432 | 10.4% |
| 49j1d42k | Politics Across Generations: Family Transmission Reexamined | 448 | 215 | 233 | 48.0% |
| 2f05z8bn | The Committee Assignments of State Legislators: An Underexplored Link in Understanding Gender Differences | 437 | 16 | 421 | 3.7% |
| 4wq6p8g5 | Republican Rise in the Rebel South | 427 | 202 | 225 | 47.3% |
| 1cq9k81z | Waiting for Trump:The Move to the Right of White Working-Class Men, 1968-2016 | 408 | 197 | 211 | 48.3% |
| 1zz8f29d | Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches | 378 | 220 | 158 | 58.2% |
| 5r92z54j | Strategic Intersectionality: Gender, Ethnicity, and Political Incorporation | 360 | 38 | 322 | 10.6% |
| 00s4m9hv | Federalism and public policy : a comparative view | 334 | 104 | 230 | 31.1% |
| 4hp7z2qf | When No Means No: The Failure of the Australian 1999 Republican Referendum and its Root in the Constitutional Convention of 1988 | 332 | 61 | 271 | 18.4% |
| 8rc078pv | Counterfactuals and hypothesis testing in political science | 329 | 187 | 142 | 56.8% |
| 0bw2p1gp | A Decentered Theory of Governance: Rational Choice, Institutionalism, and Interpretation | 286 | 46 | 240 | 16.1% |
| 0vx8r81r | Iran Air Flight 655 and the USS Vincennes : complex, large-scale military systems and the failure of control | 282 | 137 | 145 | 48.6% |
| 7qq8j257 | Political Attitudes and Patterns of Political Participation of Iranian Americans in California | 277 | 29 | 248 | 10.5% |
| 8gx4v5qt | Genetic Matching for Estimating Causal Effects: A General Multivariate Matching Method for Achieving Balance in Observational Studies | 273 | 110 | 163 | 40.3% |
| 0sr6w8hm | Water, growth and politics in coastal California : the Diablo Canyon desalting facility | 271 | 94 | 177 | 34.7% |
| 56x783bv | What if the United States were still governed under the Articles of Confederation? : non-centralized versus federal systems | 264 | 207 | 57 | 78.4% |
| 6nm6j3zv | Randomized Experiments from Non-random Selection in U.S. House Elections | 248 | 62 | 186 | 25.0% |
| 44j6k07n | Aging, Generations, and the Development of Partisan Polarization in the United States | 245 | 43 | 202 | 17.6% |
| 80n0m3qc | Prejudicial Appearances: The Logic of American Antidiscrimination Law | 243 | 12 | 231 | 4.9% |
| 1c53j7q8 | Howard Jarvis, populist entrepreneur : reevaluating the causes of Proposition 13 | 240 | 137 | 103 | 57.1% |
| 7f5358q3 | Electoral institutions, parties, and the politics of class: Why some democracies redistribute more than others | 237 | 15 | 222 | 6.3% |
| 98x2b5qg | Lessons of the Gulf War : ascendant technology and declining capability | 227 | 55 | 172 | 24.2% |
| 2gh262w3 | The Limits of Judicial Persuasion and the Fragility of Judicial Legitimacy | 224 | 46 | 178 | 20.5% |
| 5vt721gb | White reactions to black candidates : when does race matter? | 219 | 99 | 120 | 45.2% |
| 86n8r3pc | Exposing Corrupt Politicians: The Effect of Brazil's Publicly Released Audits on Electoral Outcomes | 216 | 28 | 188 | 13.0% |
| 9x41579n | How much does law matter? : labor relations in Rotterdam and U.S. ports | 212 | 140 | 72 | 66.0% |
| 1tn2z0d1 | Good bye Lenin (or not?): The effect of Communism on people's preferences | 210 | 34 | 176 | 16.2% |
| 220212df | Media manipulation in electoral campaigns : a qualitative look at David Duke's political career | 209 | 159 | 50 | 76.1% |
| 7zq7k5w8 | Political Institutions, Competing Principals, and Party Unity in Legislative Voting | 207 | 36 | 171 | 17.4% |
| 1gr744vf | Self-Enforcing Democracy | 202 | 101 | 101 | 50.0% |
| 2tw7b82q | Polling in the Governor's Race in California | 201 | 29 | 172 | 14.4% |
| 4gb278j5 | Dimensions of Politics in the European Parliament | 198 | 116 | 82 | 58.6% |
| 0jp544b0 | The Lost Chapter in Korean History, Evolving Democracy, and an Opportunity for Peace and Security in the North Pacific | 197 | 31 | 166 | 15.7% |
| 58m5m1k8 | Making democracy work : Luther Gulick | 197 | 118 | 79 | 59.9% |
| 6qv019hj | The Primary Reason for Women's Under-Representation? Reevaluating the Conventional Wisdom | 197 | 114 | 83 | 57.9% |
| 7n6862fw | Problem solving and institutional design | 193 | 102 | 91 | 52.8% |
| 4cn3d67q | The origin and enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 | 192 | 73 | 119 | 38.0% |
| 1rh937ps | Hobbes's natural man is a fatalist : implications of cultural theory for interpreting Hobbes and his critics | 188 | 146 | 42 | 77.7% |
| 62s9g8km | Toward a typology of new subnational governmental actors in international relations | 188 | 113 | 75 | 60.1% |
| 05b607ng | Beyond the Federal-Unitary Dichotomy | 185 | 36 | 149 | 19.5% |
| 3950k1b6 | The line of scrimmage | 183 | 151 | 32 | 82.5% |
| 8x22k30c | An energy crisis from the past: Northern California in 1948 | 183 | 54 | 129 | 29.5% |
| 2cn109w0 | Politics Across Generations: Family Transmission Reexamined | 176 | 94 | 82 | 53.4% |
| 7b30r8xv | Gatekeeping | 171 | 36 | 135 | 21.1% |
| 2xh2r82r | The United States air traffic control system : increasing reliability in the midst of rapid growth | 166 | 78 | 88 | 47.0% |
| 7wx1x1pj | How to recombine large technical systems : the case of European organ transplantation | 163 | 139 | 24 | 85.3% |
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