The past generation has witnessed a resurgence of religion in global politics, but political
science has been slow to catch up with it. The reason lies in the secularism embedded in the …

Now in a thoroughly revised Fifth Edition, An Introduction to the Policy Process provides
students at all levels with an accessible, readable, and affordable introduction to the field of …

To what extent is party loyalty a liability for incumbent legislators? Past research on
legislative voting and elections suggests that voters punish members who are ideologically …

Recent years have seen a tremendous surge of public interest in partisan gerrymandering,
including robust reform efforts and multiple high-profile court cases. Political scientists have …

Natural experiments help to overcome some of the obstacles researchers face when making
causal inferences in the social sciences. However, even when natural interventions are …

The effect of geographical distance between candidate and voter on vote-likelihood in the
UK is essentially untested. In systems where constituency representatives vie for local …

We use elections data in which a large number of ties in vote counts between candidates
are resolved via a lottery to study the personal incumbency advantage. We benchmark non …

Elections with small margins of victory represent an important form of electoral competition
and, increasingly, an opportunity for causal inference. When scholars use close elections for …

We articulate a theory of the relevance of distance to candidate support in election
campaigns. Anchoring our effort in VO Key's reflections on localism from a half century ago …

Studies of American politics, particularly legislative politics, rely heavily on measures of the
partisanship of a district. We develop a measurement model for this concept, estimating …