A wave of recent scholarship has breathed new life into the study of reputation and
credibility in international politics. In this review article, the authors welcome this …

Survey experiments often manipulate the description of attributes in a hypothetical scenario,
with the goal of learning about those attributes' real-world effects. Such inferences rely on an …

This article introduces the special feature “Leaders, Crisis Behavior, and International
Conflict.” Individual leaders play a central role in world politics. Yet, for the last several …

Political scientists designing experiments often face the question of how abstract or detailed
their experimental stimuli should be. Typically, this question is framed in terms of trade‐offs …

The global spread of electoral gender quotas has been characterized as one of the most
significant institutional developments of the last 30 years. Many of the countries that have …

An old adage holds that “only Nixon could go to China”; that is, hawkish leaders face fewer
domestic barriers than doves when it comes to pursuing reconciliation with foreign enemies …

Politicians frequently turn to reputational arguments to bolster support for their proposed
foreign policies. Yet despite the prevailing belief that domestic audiences care about …

How do reputations form in international politics? What influence do these reputations have
on the conduct of international affairs? In Reputation for Resolve, Danielle L. Lupton takes a …

Two mechanisms of costly signaling are known in international relations: sinking costs and
tying hands. I show that there exist four mechanisms of costly signaling that are equally …

Political scientists designing experiments often face the question of how abstract or detailed
their experimental stimuli should be. Typically, this question is framed in terms of tradeoffs …