IPSR - Volume 47, Number 3, June 2026

Late to the party: Do party switchers behave differently in parliament from party loyalists?
Axel Bayer and Thomas Malang

The right man for the job? Dictators’ selection mode and their facial characteristics
Abel François, Sophie Panel and Laurent Weill

Institutional disruption and women’s substantive representation: the Senate of Canada as a case study
Elizabeth McCallion and Tracey Raney

Digitalization, value change and political consumerism in Europe: A multi-level trend analysis over two decades
Ole Kelm

Fight or unite? Exploring the link between consensus institutions, polarization, and political violence in 113 democracies over time (1900–2023)
Kamil Bernaerts and Didier Caluwaerts

From empowerment to participation: How women’s political empowerment shapes non-institutionalized political participation and reduces gender disparities
Cyrill Otteni

The rise and fall of exclusion: A longitudinal study of US attitudes toward immigration
Xiang Wang, Yihui Tong and Jiangrui Liu

Civic engagement moving online: Empirical examination of its antecedents during the COVID-19 pandemic
Efrat Blitstein-Mishor, Eran Vigoda-Gadot and Shlomo Mizrahi

Can institutional quality reduce geopolitical risk? Evidence from G20 countries 
Rizwan Akhtar Jamsheed and Cao Mingxing