The rise of the Tea Party redefined both the Republican Party and how we think about
intraparty conflict. What initially appeared to be an anti-Obama protest movement of fiscal …

Several theories of policy change posit that the politics of defining and prioritizing problems
differs from the politics of devising and selecting solutions. The former involves simplifying …

When women in Congress solve a high-profile problem, their colleagues and the media
praise their ability to get Washington's business done by collaborating and compromising in …

This study analyzes political polarization among the South Korean elite by examining 17
years' worth of subcommittee meeting minutes from the South Korean National Assembly's …

Supplementary material: Efficient estimation of age-specific social contact rates between
men and women. In the Supplementary Material we describe the data pre-procession steps …

Existing research on congressional parties tends to focus almost exclusively on the majority
party. I argue that the inattention to the House minority party hampers our understanding of …

Abstract The US House of Representatives made a significant move by passing legislation
on the TikTok ban 'twice'in less than 40 days. The passed legislation requires that …

Punctuated equilibrium theory (PET) posits that policy change is incremental for long
periods of time with occasional shifts in problem definition and governing authority that …

Spatial voting models of legislators' preferences are used in political science to test theories
about their voting behavior. These models posit that legislators' ideologies as well as the …

We extend classical ideal point estimation to allow voters to have different preferences when
voting in different domains—for example, when voting on agricultural policy than when …