The study of political parties and voter partisanship has come full circle in 4 decades. During
the 1960s and 1970s numerous scholars advanced the thesis of party decline, contending …

THE first goal of any incumbent politician is to be reselected by his or her own party, before
being reelected by the public, before achieving party office, and before gaining any …

It was not long after the election of a record number of women to the House of Commons in
1997 that the backlash began. The criticism was all-encompassing: they wore the wrong …

This study analyzes party group cohesion and patterns of defections of national party
delegations from party group lines in the European Parliament (EP), using a total of 2,582 …

We studied an underutilized source of data on legislative effectiveness and exploited its
panel structure to uncover several interesting patterns. We found that effectiveness rises …

Why does the influence of Congressional parties fluctuate over time? Building on prevailing
answers, we develop a model, Strategic Party Government, which highlights the electoral …

The 1997 British general election saw a record 120 women returned to the House of
Commons, 101 of them Labour. Yet if the most striking feature of the 1997 intake into the …

Executive Overview Managers can craft effective integrated strategy by properly assessing
regulatory uncertainty. Leveraging the existing political markets literature, we predict …

Why is Congress mired in partisan polarization? The conventional answer is that members
of Congress and their constituencies fundamentally disagree with one other along …

The current polarization of elites in the US, particularly in Congress, is frequently ascribed to
the emergence of cohorts of ideologically extreme legislators replacing moderate ones …