United Nations (UN) General Assembly votes have become the standard data source for
measures of states preferences over foreign policy. Most papers use dyadic indicators of …

Scholars of post-communist politics often argue that parties in new democracies lack strong
organizations-sizable membership, local presence, and professional management-because …

Is Bipartisanship Dead? looks beyond (and considers the time before) roll call voting to
examine the extent to which bipartisan agreement in the House of Representatives has …

The science of human rights requires valid comparisons of repression levels across time
and space. Though extensive data collection efforts have made such comparisons possible …

Estimation of ideological positions among voters, legislators, and other actors is central to
many subfields of political science. Recent applications include large data sets of various …

We use bill cosponsorship and roll‐call vote data to compare legislators' revealed
preferences in the US House of Representatives and the Argentine Chamber of Deputies …

Plurality-led Congresses are among the most pervasive and least studied phenomena in
presidential systems around the world. Often conflated with divided government, where an …

While the president's relationship to Congress has been carefully studied, the broader
executive branch has received far less attention in that context. Scholars rely on …

Theories often explain intraparty competition based on electoral conditions and intraparty
rules. This article further opens this black box by considering intraparty statements of …

Country participation in one-state, one-vote forums like the United Nations General
Assembly often reflects underlying power asymmetries and endogenous political processes …