Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal have analyzed 16 million individual roll call votes
spanning the two centuries since the two Houses of Congress began recording votes in …

The advocacy coalition framework (ACF) has generated considerable interest among
European policy scholars. This article summarizes some of the more important findings …

We address two long-standing survey research problems: measuring complicated concepts,
such as political freedom and efficacy, that researchers define best with reference to …

First published in 1991. This book initially offers a critique of some key rational public choice
models, to show that they were internally inconsistent and ideologically slanted. Then due to …

In Ideology and Congress, authors Poole and Rosenthal have analyzed over 13 million
individual roll call votes spanning the two centuries since Congress began recording votes …

What if there were more women in Congress? Providing the first comprehensive study of the
policy activity of male and female legislators at the federal level, Michele L. Swers …

Elected officials in the United States appear to represent relatively extreme support
coalitions rather than the interests of middle-of-the-road voters. This contention is supported …

There are two fundamentally different views of the role of elections in policy formation. In one
view, voters can affect candidates' policy choices: competition for votes induces politicians to …

Congressional roll call voting has been highly structured for most of US history. The structure
is revealed by a dynamic, spatial analysis of the entire roll call voting record from 1789 to …

From local trial courts to the United States Supreme Court, judges' decisions affect the fates
of individual litigants and the fate of the nation as a whole. Scholars have long discussed …