Nbr. 71-4, December 2018

Index

• A Note from the Editors
• Alternation through Death: Is Gerontocracy an Equilibrium?
• Announcements
• Are the Politics of the Christian Right Linked to State Rates of the Nonreligious? The Importance of Salient Controversy
• Assessing the Relationship between Economic News Coverage and Mass Economic Attitudes
• Beneficence, Street Begging, and Diverted Giving Schemes
• Corrigendum
• Creating Democratic Citizens: Political Effects of the Internet in China
• Fundraising for Favors? Linking Lobbyist-Hosted Fundraisers to Legislative Benefits
• Informational Need, Institutional Capacity, and Court Receptivity: Interest Groups and Amicus Curiae in State High Courts
• Issue Scales, Information Cues, and the Proximity and Directional Models of Voter Choice
• Local Origins: Context, Group Identity, and Politics of Place
• Marching Orders? U.S. Party Platforms and Legislative Agenda Setting 1948–2014
• Political Gender Stereotypes in a List-PR System with a High Share of Women MPs: Competent Men versus Leftist Women?
• Subnational Patterns of Participation: Compulsory Voting and the Conditional Impact of Institutional Design
• The Agenda-Setting Power of the Prime Minister Party in Coalition Governments
• The Cost of Doing Business: Congressional Requests, Cost, and Allocation of Presidential Resources
• The Intergroup Foundations of Policy Influence
• The People’s Two Bodies: An Alternative Perspective on Populism and Elitism
• The Political Responsiveness of Violent Crime Prosecution
• TRENDS: How Does Partisanship Influence Policy Diffusion?
• When Campaigns Can Backfire: National Identities and Support for Parties in the 2015 U.K. General Election in Scotland
• “It’s Largely a Rigged System”: Voter Confidence and the Winner Effect in 2016