Working Papers

Parent: Institute of Governmental Studies

eScholarship stats: History by Item for June through September, 2026

Item	Title	Total requests	2026-09	2026-08	2026-07	2026-06
9r45g86c	How the cases you choose affect the answers you get : selection bias in comparative politics	1,606	710	603	163	130
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	311	540	334	357
9s54f2mc	Political Similarity And Influence Between Husbands And Wives	649	187	200	101	161
0tq3h4xv	The International Criminal Court and the United States: It's Not a Member. Should it Join Now?	487	90	117	93	187
08s0f26b	Ronald Reagan and The New Conservative Populism	482	116	148	86	132
49j1d42k	Politics Across Generations: Family Transmission Reexamined	448	124	174	70	80
2f05z8bn	The Committee Assignments of State Legislators: An Underexplored Link in Understanding Gender Differences	437	50	28	10	349
4wq6p8g5	Republican Rise in the Rebel South	427	261	127	25	14
1cq9k81z	Waiting for Trump:The Move to the Right of White Working-Class Men, 1968-2016	408	133	166	52	57
1zz8f29d	Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches	378	103	142	83	50
5r92z54j	Strategic Intersectionality: Gender, Ethnicity, and Political Incorporation	360	149	105	83	23
00s4m9hv	Federalism and public policy : a comparative view	334	109	106	49	70
4hp7z2qf	When No Means No: The Failure of the Australian 1999 Republican Referendum and its Root in the Constitutional Convention of 1988	332	128	130	27	47
8rc078pv	Counterfactuals and hypothesis testing in political science	329	103	106	65	55
0bw2p1gp	A Decentered Theory of Governance: Rational Choice, Institutionalism, and Interpretation	286	48	65	44	129
0vx8r81r	Iran Air Flight 655 and the USS Vincennes : complex, large-scale military systems and the failure of control	282	71	91	54	66
7qq8j257	Political Attitudes and Patterns of Political Participation of Iranian Americans in California	277	101	122	22	32
8gx4v5qt	Genetic Matching for Estimating Causal Effects: A General Multivariate Matching Method for Achieving Balance in Observational Studies	273	59	86	60	68
0sr6w8hm	Water, growth and politics in coastal California : the Diablo Canyon desalting facility	271	65	73	58	75
56x783bv	What if the United States were still governed under the Articles of Confederation? : non-centralized versus federal systems	264	44	74	61	85
6nm6j3zv	Randomized Experiments from Non-random Selection in U.S. House Elections	248	51	89	55	53
44j6k07n	Aging, Generations, and the Development of Partisan Polarization in the United States	245	87	94	26	38
80n0m3qc	Prejudicial Appearances: The Logic of American Antidiscrimination Law	243	59	107	46	31
1c53j7q8	Howard Jarvis, populist entrepreneur : reevaluating the causes of Proposition 13	240	62	70	54	54
7f5358q3	Electoral institutions, parties, and the politics of class: Why some democracies redistribute more than others	237	71	85	48	33
98x2b5qg	Lessons of the Gulf War : ascendant technology and declining capability	227	80	102	20	25
2gh262w3	The Limits of Judicial Persuasion and the Fragility of Judicial Legitimacy	224	66	78	28	52
5vt721gb	White reactions to black candidates : when does race matter?	219	33	43	50	93
86n8r3pc	Exposing Corrupt Politicians: The Effect of Brazil's Publicly Released Audits on Electoral Outcomes	216	72	99	18	27
9x41579n	How much does law matter? : labor relations in Rotterdam and U.S. ports	212	48	48	49	67
1tn2z0d1	Good bye Lenin (or not?): The effect of Communism on people's preferences	210	46	120	25	19
220212df	Media manipulation in electoral campaigns : a qualitative look at David Duke's political career	209	49	49	34	77
7zq7k5w8	Political Institutions, Competing Principals, and Party Unity in Legislative Voting	207	75	90	10	32
1gr744vf	Self-Enforcing Democracy	202	77	38	38	49
2tw7b82q	Polling in the Governor's Race in California	201	50	80	32	39
4gb278j5	Dimensions of Politics in the European Parliament	198	29	71	62	36
0jp544b0	The Lost Chapter in Korean History, Evolving Democracy, and an Opportunity for Peace and Security in the North Pacific	197	28	48	54	67
58m5m1k8	Making democracy work : Luther Gulick	197	66	59	34	38
6qv019hj	The Primary Reason for Women's Under-Representation? Reevaluating the Conventional Wisdom	197	43	76	53	25
7n6862fw	Problem solving and institutional design	193	35	50	47	61
4cn3d67q	The origin and enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964	192	54	69	43	26
1rh937ps	Hobbes's natural man is a fatalist : implications of cultural theory for interpreting Hobbes and his critics	188	46	46	25	71
62s9g8km	Toward a typology of new subnational governmental actors in international relations	188	40	60	33	55
05b607ng	Beyond the Federal-Unitary Dichotomy	185	58	59	15	53
3950k1b6	The line of scrimmage	183	45	29	99	10
8x22k30c	An energy crisis from the past: Northern California in 1948	183	66	54	31	32
2cn109w0	Politics Across Generations: Family Transmission Reexamined	176	57	44	14	61
7b30r8xv	Gatekeeping	171	32	69	48	22
2xh2r82r	The United States air traffic control system : increasing reliability in the midst of rapid growth	166	48	60	31	27
7wx1x1pj	How to recombine large technical systems : the case of European organ transplantation	163	16	38	46	63

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