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IPSA’s flagship journal, the International Political Science Review (IPSR), kicks off the year with a new issue (Volume 47, Issue 1, January 2026) featuring an interesting blend of theoretically novel and thematically relevant articles.

The journal’s contributors include authors from Africa, Asia, Western Europe, and the Americas. The first article, by Guiditta et al., presents a new research design that pairs hypothesis development with hypothesis testing. The second, by Wang, uses a joint experiment to study the characteristics that citizens look for in an elected politician. Subsequent articles, by Kogueda and Engama, and by Woo et al., focus, respectively, on corruption and its dual effect with digital public governance, and public opinion. The fifth article, by Hansanaj and Stadelmann-Steffen, looks at crises response mechanisms through a gendered lens. The sixth article, by Marquez-Romo, looks at the effect of income inequality and demands for redistribution. Still on the theme of inequality, the article by De Grauwe et al. analyzes the effects of material deprivation on ego-tropic voting. The final two articles are dedicated to surge in populism and citizen resentment, as well as consumerism, respectively.  

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The Multi-Stage Mixed Methods Framework: A new research design to combine hypothesis development and hypothesis testing and to embed machine learning and practitioner engagement in the social sciences
Giuditta Fontana, Argyro Kartsonaki, Natascha S Neudorfer and Stefan Wolff

Understanding individual preferences over political appointees: Evidence from a conjoint experiment
Ching-Hsing Wang

Digital public governance and corruption: Analysis of a two-way relationship in Africa
Franky BA Kogueda and Etgard Manga Engama

Gendered punishment? How the corruption of female politicians affects public opinion of female political leadership
Byung-Deuk Woo, Mi-son Kim and Tracy Osborn

Gendered leadership and political structures: A global analysis of crisis responses across 150 countries
Valon Hasanaj and Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen

Moving in parallel? Economic inequality and public demand for redistribution in unequal societies
Cristian Márquez Romo

Who misses the bare necessities? Material deprivation as an indicator for egotropic economic voting
Chloé De Grauwe, Marc Hooghe and Dieter Stiers

‘Sour grapes and the seeds of discontent’: Citizens in ressentiment and the populist surge
Kostas Papaioannou

Supermarket politics: personality and political consumerism
Scott Pruysers