A hands on guide to web scraping and text mining for both beginners and experienced
users of R Introduces fundamental concepts of the main architecture of the web and …

Measuring the preferences of political elites is critically important for analyzing the
determinants and consequences of elite behavior. The decisions that elites make when …

Does it matter that working‐class citizens are numerically underrepresented in political
offices throughout the world? For decades, the conventional wisdom in comparative politics …

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 …

We confront the puzzle of why bipartisanship is alive and well in Congress, despite notable
increases in party polarization and rising primary election threats. The answer is remarkably …

Politicians frequently intervene in the regulation of financial accounting. Evidence from the
accounting literature shows that regulatory capture by special interests helps explain these …

Abstract Research on the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has often privileged
analyses on voting patterns, that is, how countries position themselves whenever a …

Scholars have argued that female legislators are more prone to collaborate than their male
counterparts. Though collaboration may be more or less evident in particular situations, we …

How does political ambition affect strategies of cooperation in Congress? What activities do
legislators develop with their peers to maximize their career goals? One of the main …

In recent years, the ties that Members of Parliament (MPs) create by cosponsoring
legislation together have attracted interest from scholars adopting a network approach to …