Working Papers

Parent: Institute of Governmental Studies

eScholarship stats: History by Item for May through August, 2026

Item	Title	Total requests	2026-08	2026-07	2026-06	2026-05
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	509	334	357	234
9r45g86c	How the cases you choose affect the answers you get : selection bias in comparative politics	942	521	163	130	128
0tq3h4xv	The International Criminal Court and the United States: It's Not a Member. Should it Join Now?	623	106	93	187	237
9s54f2mc	Political Similarity And Influence Between Husbands And Wives	611	169	101	161	180
08s0f26b	Ronald Reagan and The New Conservative Populism	500	136	86	132	146
2f05z8bn	The Committee Assignments of State Legislators: An Underexplored Link in Understanding Gender Differences	479	23	10	349	97
49j1d42k	Politics Across Generations: Family Transmission Reexamined	364	151	70	80	63
1cq9k81z	Waiting for Trump:The Move to the Right of White Working-Class Men, 1968-2016	357	137	52	57	111
1zz8f29d	Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches	353	124	83	50	96
0bw2p1gp	A Decentered Theory of Governance: Rational Choice, Institutionalism, and Interpretation	324	59	44	129	92
8rc078pv	Counterfactuals and hypothesis testing in political science	317	95	65	55	102
6nm6j3zv	Randomized Experiments from Non-random Selection in U.S. House Elections	314	83	55	53	123
56x783bv	What if the United States were still governed under the Articles of Confederation? : non-centralized versus federal systems	302	68	61	85	88
0vx8r81r	Iran Air Flight 655 and the USS Vincennes : complex, large-scale military systems and the failure of control	295	85	54	66	90
00s4m9hv	Federalism and public policy : a comparative view	292	96	49	70	77
8gx4v5qt	Genetic Matching for Estimating Causal Effects: A General Multivariate Matching Method for Achieving Balance in Observational Studies	279	83	60	68	68
0sr6w8hm	Water, growth and politics in coastal California : the Diablo Canyon desalting facility	266	65	58	75	68
4hp7z2qf	When No Means No: The Failure of the Australian 1999 Republican Referendum and its Root in the Constitutional Convention of 1988	266	121	27	47	71
1tn2z0d1	Good bye Lenin (or not?): The effect of Communism on people's preferences	249	113	25	19	92
5vt721gb	White reactions to black candidates : when does race matter?	244	42	50	93	59
7wx1x1pj	How to recombine large technical systems : the case of European organ transplantation	242	37	46	63	96
1c53j7q8	Howard Jarvis, populist entrepreneur : reevaluating the causes of Proposition 13	239	64	54	54	67
80n0m3qc	Prejudicial Appearances: The Logic of American Antidiscrimination Law	237	95	46	31	65
8px065x9	Strategic Intersectionality: Gender, Ethnicity, and Political Incorporation	236	36	32	53	115
5r92z54j	Strategic Intersectionality: Gender, Ethnicity, and Political Incorporation	231	90	83	23	35
4gb278j5	Dimensions of Politics in the European Parliament	226	68	62	36	60
2gh262w3	The Limits of Judicial Persuasion and the Fragility of Judicial Legitimacy	218	75	28	52	63
7n6862fw	Problem solving and institutional design	216	47	47	61	61
2nj4x0w6	The arrogance of optimism	211	49	33	33	96
62s9g8km	Toward a typology of new subnational governmental actors in international relations	207	56	33	55	63
220212df	Media manipulation in electoral campaigns : a qualitative look at David Duke's political career	206	47	34	77	48
1rh937ps	Hobbes's natural man is a fatalist : implications of cultural theory for interpreting Hobbes and his critics	205	44	25	71	65
2tw7b82q	Polling in the Governor's Race in California	196	72	32	39	53
0jp544b0	The Lost Chapter in Korean History, Evolving Democracy, and an Opportunity for Peace and Security in the North Pacific	195	47	54	67	27
7qq8j257	Political Attitudes and Patterns of Political Participation of Iranian Americans in California	194	111	22	32	29
86n8r3pc	Exposing Corrupt Politicians: The Effect of Brazil's Publicly Released Audits on Electoral Outcomes	193	93	18	27	55
05b607ng	Beyond the Federal-Unitary Dichotomy	187	53	15	53	66
44j6k07n	Aging, Generations, and the Development of Partisan Polarization in the United States	187	89	26	38	34
1zc3386r	A Manifesto for a Paradigm Shift from Traditional Economics to Evidence Based Economics	185	24	25	33	103
7f5358q3	Electoral institutions, parties, and the politics of class: Why some democracies redistribute more than others	185	76	48	33	28
39g3f25h	Race Matters: Latino Racial Identities and Political Beliefs	181	23	19	59	80
6qv019hj	The Primary Reason for Women's Under-Representation? Reevaluating the Conventional Wisdom	180	69	53	25	33
9x41579n	How much does law matter? : labor relations in Rotterdam and U.S. ports	179	46	49	67	17
58m5m1k8	Making democracy work : Luther Gulick	176	56	34	38	48
1gr744vf	Self-Enforcing Democracy	175	35	38	49	53
4wq6p8g5	Republican Rise in the Rebel South	174	106	25	14	29
9zf1n65r	California library referenda : the determinants of success and failure	167	24	24	55	64
9641p8k5	Ideological cohesion in the American two-party system	165	39	27	39	60
7b30r8xv	Gatekeeping	164	66	48	22	28
98x2b5qg	Lessons of the Gulf War : ascendant technology and declining capability	163	91	20	25	27

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