How have social scientists conceptualized race over the past 60 years? John A. Garcia points us to a number of approaches to race, including self-identification, ascription, and phenotype. He suggests how we might move forward in making our empirical study of race match the robustness of our theorizing.

In the final episode of the APSR series, I review the most impactful article from the May 2022 issue. This article comes from a number of scholars: Angela L. Bos, Jill S. Greenlee, Mirya R. Holman, Zoe M. Oxley, and J. Celeste Lay.

JILL S. GREENLEE

When popularity surges for an authoritarian ruler, are the presented numbers accurate? Is the government lying about how much support there is? Or, is the government reporting the actual numbers, but people are lying? In this study, Hale shows us the degree to which people may be lying about their support.

Can oppression from more than a century ago still have political consequences today? If it did, how would we measure it? In this article, Lukas Haffert looks at the "Catholic Milieu" in former Prussia and its continuing political legacy.

Does state repression inspire counter-movements? Or, does state repression de-incentivize the mobilization of counter-movments? In this week's episode we explore this novel contribution to the literature on the repression-mobilization puzzle.

The effect of television advertisements in presidential elections has been welll-studied, but the effect of television advertisements in down ballot elections is an understudied area. This research finds television advertisements to be much more effective at persuading, not mobilizing, voters in down-ballot elections, than presidential elections.

In this episode I begin a six episode series that covers the six most impactful (as measured by Alt Metric) articles from the May 2022 issue of the APSR. Today's article explores how electoral incentives, term limits specifically, affect representative productivity.