Contrary to stylized accounts of policy making in democracies, it is routine for presidents,
governors, and other chief executives to issue directives such as decrees and executive …

Applying an array of quasiexperimental designs, proponents of causal inference
approaches to studying American politics are setting their sights on the study of Congress. In …

Tests of legislative gatekeeping theories have been hampered by the absence of status quo
estimates, making these tests vulnerable to selection bias. I overcome this problem with a …

Pivotal Politics: A Theory of US Lawmaking was conceived as an instance of normal science
within a nascent but nebulous paradigm. In the two decades following publication of the …

Does majority party control cause changes in legislative policy making? We argue that
majority party floor control affects legislator behavior and agenda control. Leveraging a …

Students of American politics have caught the bug of causal inference. Applying an array of
quasiexperimental designs, enthusiasts of causal inference methods are setting their sights …

This chapter shifts focus to the disequilibrium of the Trump era, and studies ways that
modern factions have become even more empowered by an insurgency presidency. Far …