Working Papers
Parent: Institute of Governmental Studies
eScholarship stats: Breakdown by Item for May through August, 2026
| Item | Title | Total requests | Download | View-only | %Dnld |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 96p3s213 | Reflections on the Transition from Elite to Mass to Universal Access: Forms and Phases of Higher Education in Modern Societies since WWII | 1,434 | 246 | 1,188 | 17.2% |
| 9r45g86c | How the cases you choose affect the answers you get : selection bias in comparative politics | 942 | 353 | 589 | 37.5% |
| 0tq3h4xv | The International Criminal Court and the United States: It's Not a Member. Should it Join Now? | 623 | 107 | 516 | 17.2% |
| 9s54f2mc | Political Similarity And Influence Between Husbands And Wives | 611 | 108 | 503 | 17.7% |
| 08s0f26b | Ronald Reagan and The New Conservative Populism | 500 | 50 | 450 | 10.0% |
| 2f05z8bn | The Committee Assignments of State Legislators: An Underexplored Link in Understanding Gender Differences | 479 | 25 | 454 | 5.2% |
| 49j1d42k | Politics Across Generations: Family Transmission Reexamined | 364 | 209 | 155 | 57.4% |
| 1cq9k81z | Waiting for Trump:The Move to the Right of White Working-Class Men, 1968-2016 | 357 | 136 | 221 | 38.1% |
| 1zz8f29d | Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches | 353 | 211 | 142 | 59.8% |
| 0bw2p1gp | A Decentered Theory of Governance: Rational Choice, Institutionalism, and Interpretation | 324 | 52 | 272 | 16.0% |
| 8rc078pv | Counterfactuals and hypothesis testing in political science | 317 | 172 | 145 | 54.3% |
| 6nm6j3zv | Randomized Experiments from Non-random Selection in U.S. House Elections | 314 | 139 | 175 | 44.3% |
| 56x783bv | What if the United States were still governed under the Articles of Confederation? : non-centralized versus federal systems | 302 | 261 | 41 | 86.4% |
| 0vx8r81r | Iran Air Flight 655 and the USS Vincennes : complex, large-scale military systems and the failure of control | 295 | 142 | 153 | 48.1% |
| 00s4m9hv | Federalism and public policy : a comparative view | 292 | 103 | 189 | 35.3% |
| 8gx4v5qt | Genetic Matching for Estimating Causal Effects: A General Multivariate Matching Method for Achieving Balance in Observational Studies | 279 | 112 | 167 | 40.1% |
| 0sr6w8hm | Water, growth and politics in coastal California : the Diablo Canyon desalting facility | 266 | 107 | 159 | 40.2% |
| 4hp7z2qf | When No Means No: The Failure of the Australian 1999 Republican Referendum and its Root in the Constitutional Convention of 1988 | 266 | 66 | 200 | 24.8% |
| 1tn2z0d1 | Good bye Lenin (or not?): The effect of Communism on people's preferences | 249 | 88 | 161 | 35.3% |
| 5vt721gb | White reactions to black candidates : when does race matter? | 244 | 102 | 142 | 41.8% |
| 7wx1x1pj | How to recombine large technical systems : the case of European organ transplantation | 242 | 207 | 35 | 85.5% |
| 1c53j7q8 | Howard Jarvis, populist entrepreneur : reevaluating the causes of Proposition 13 | 239 | 151 | 88 | 63.2% |
| 80n0m3qc | Prejudicial Appearances: The Logic of American Antidiscrimination Law | 237 | 31 | 206 | 13.1% |
| 8px065x9 | Strategic Intersectionality: Gender, Ethnicity, and Political Incorporation | 236 | 75 | 161 | 31.8% |
| 5r92z54j | Strategic Intersectionality: Gender, Ethnicity, and Political Incorporation | 231 | 42 | 189 | 18.2% |
| 4gb278j5 | Dimensions of Politics in the European Parliament | 226 | 130 | 96 | 57.5% |
| 2gh262w3 | The Limits of Judicial Persuasion and the Fragility of Judicial Legitimacy | 218 | 53 | 165 | 24.3% |
| 7n6862fw | Problem solving and institutional design | 216 | 106 | 110 | 49.1% |
| 2nj4x0w6 | The arrogance of optimism | 211 | 79 | 132 | 37.4% |
| 62s9g8km | Toward a typology of new subnational governmental actors in international relations | 207 | 130 | 77 | 62.8% |
| 220212df | Media manipulation in electoral campaigns : a qualitative look at David Duke's political career | 206 | 163 | 43 | 79.1% |
| 1rh937ps | Hobbes's natural man is a fatalist : implications of cultural theory for interpreting Hobbes and his critics | 205 | 163 | 42 | 79.5% |
| 2tw7b82q | Polling in the Governor's Race in California | 196 | 27 | 169 | 13.8% |
| 0jp544b0 | The Lost Chapter in Korean History, Evolving Democracy, and an Opportunity for Peace and Security in the North Pacific | 195 | 33 | 162 | 16.9% |
| 7qq8j257 | Political Attitudes and Patterns of Political Participation of Iranian Americans in California | 194 | 30 | 164 | 15.5% |
| 86n8r3pc | Exposing Corrupt Politicians: The Effect of Brazil's Publicly Released Audits on Electoral Outcomes | 193 | 45 | 148 | 23.3% |
| 05b607ng | Beyond the Federal-Unitary Dichotomy | 187 | 47 | 140 | 25.1% |
| 44j6k07n | Aging, Generations, and the Development of Partisan Polarization in the United States | 187 | 50 | 137 | 26.7% |
| 1zc3386r | A Manifesto for a Paradigm Shift from Traditional Economics to Evidence Based Economics | 185 | 83 | 102 | 44.9% |
| 7f5358q3 | Electoral institutions, parties, and the politics of class: Why some democracies redistribute more than others | 185 | 11 | 174 | 5.9% |
| 39g3f25h | Race Matters: Latino Racial Identities and Political Beliefs | 181 | 51 | 130 | 28.2% |
| 6qv019hj | The Primary Reason for Women's Under-Representation? Reevaluating the Conventional Wisdom | 180 | 114 | 66 | 63.3% |
| 9x41579n | How much does law matter? : labor relations in Rotterdam and U.S. ports | 179 | 128 | 51 | 71.5% |
| 58m5m1k8 | Making democracy work : Luther Gulick | 176 | 101 | 75 | 57.4% |
| 1gr744vf | Self-Enforcing Democracy | 175 | 99 | 76 | 56.6% |
| 4wq6p8g5 | Republican Rise in the Rebel South | 174 | 109 | 65 | 62.6% |
| 9zf1n65r | California library referenda : the determinants of success and failure | 167 | 104 | 63 | 62.3% |
| 9641p8k5 | Ideological cohesion in the American two-party system | 165 | 100 | 65 | 60.6% |
| 7b30r8xv | Gatekeeping | 164 | 26 | 138 | 15.9% |
| 98x2b5qg | Lessons of the Gulf War : ascendant technology and declining capability | 163 | 64 | 99 | 39.3% |
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