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American Political Science Review Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.35.234, on 24 Sep 2021 at 14:48:11, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055419000571 AMERICAN POLITICAL AMERICAN POLITICAL ASSOCIATION SCIENCE SCIENCE REVIEW Volume 113, Issue 4 Issue 113, Volume ISSN: 0003-0554 ISSN: November 2019 November LEAD EDITOR Jennifer Gandhi Andreas Schedler Thomas König Emory University Centro de Investigación y Docencia University of Mannheim, Germany Claudine Gay Económicas, Mexico Harvard University Frank Schimmelfennig ASSOCIATE EDITORS John Gerring ETH Zürich, Switzerland Kenneth Benoit University of Texas, Austin Carsten Q. Schneider London School of Economics Sona N. Golder Central European University, and Political Science Pennsylvania State University Budapest, Hungary Thomas Bräuninger Ruth W. Grant Sanjay Seth University of Mannheim Duke University Goldsmiths, University of London, UK Sabine Carey Julia Gray Carl K. Y. Shaw University of Mannheim University of Pennsylvania Academia Sinica, Taiwan Leigh Jenco Mary Alice Haddad Betsy Sinclair London School of Economics Washington University in St. Louis and Political Science Wesleyan University Peter A. Hall Beth A. Simmons Benjamin Lauderdale University of Pennsylvania University College London Harvard University Mary Hawkesworth Dan Slater Ingo Rohlfi ng University of Chicago University of Cologne Rutgers University Gretchen Helmke Rune Slothuus https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055419000571 . Aarhus University, Denmark EDITORIAL BOARD University of Rochester Jeff Spinner-Halev Fiona Adamson D. 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Policies, request forms and contacts are available at: http://www.cambridge.org/rights/permissions/permission.htm Downloaded from Permission to copy (for users in the U.S.A.) is available from Copyright Clearance Center http://www.copyright.com, email: [email protected] American Political Science Review Volume 113, Number 4, November 2019 Table of Contents NOTES FROM THE EDITORS . .................... iii ARTICLES https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055419000571 . Who Leads? Who Follows? Measuring Issue Attention and Agenda Setting by Legislators and the Mass Public Using Social Media Data Pablo Barberá, Andreu Casas, Jonathan Nagler, Patrick J. Egan, Richard Bonneau, John T. Jost, and Joshua A. Tucker ............................. 883 Persuading the Enemy: Estimating the Persuasive Effects of Partisan Media with the Preference-Incorporating Choice and Assignment Design Justin de Benedictis-Kessner, Matthew A. Baum, Adam J. Berinsky, and Teppei Yamamoto ..................................................... 902 The Party or the Purse? Unequal Representation in the US Senate https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Jeffrey R. Lax, Justin H. Phillips, and Adam Zelizer ................................ 917 Pitch Perfect: Vocal Pitch and the Emotional Intensity of Congressional Speech Bryce J. Dietrich, Matthew Hayes, and Diana Z. O’Brien ............................. 941 Do Fairer Elections Increase the Responsiveness of Politicians? George Kwaku Ofosu ........................................................ 963 Why Some Persistent Problems Persist Robert Powell ............................................................. 980 Investment in the Shadow of Conflict: Globalization, Capital Control, and State Repression Mehdi Shadmehr ........................................................... 997 Can Violent Protest Change Local Policy Support? Evidence from the Aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles Riot Ryan D. Enos, Aaron R. Kaufman, and Melissa L. Sands . 1012 Ethnic Riots and Prosocial Behavior: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan , subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at Anselm Hager, Krzysztof Krakowski, and Max Schaub .............................. 1029 Mass Purges: Top-Down Accountability in Autocracy B. Pablo Montagnes and Stephane Wolton ....................................... 1045 LETTERS BARP: Improving Mister P Using Bayesian Additive Regression Trees 24 Sep 2021 at 14:48:11 James Bisbee ............................................................. 1060 , on Political Theory in an Ethnographic Key Matthew Longo and Bernardo Zacka ..........................................
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