Explanations are provided for why governments do as they do in agriculture. Alternative
frameworks are assessed to explain government policy including collective action and …

Research polls, media interviews, and everyday conversations reveal an unsettling truth:
citizens, while well-meaning and even passionate about current affairs, appear to know very …

We develop a model in which special-interest groups make political contributions in order to
influence an incumbent government's choice of trade policy. The interest groups bid for …

Considered the gold standard on interest group politics, this widely-used text analyzes
interest groups within the intuitive framework of democratic theory, enabling readers to …

A simple rational entry argument suggests that the value of incumbency consists not just of a
direct effect, reflecting the value of resources (such as staff) attached to legislative office, but …

Analysis of both district-level and aggregate time-series data from postwar House elections
supports the thesis that strategic political elites play a pivotal role in translating national …

Is electoral competition good for political selection? To address this issue, we introduce a
theoretical model where ideological parties select and allocate high-valence (experts) and …

The question of whether voter bias exists toward female politicians remains unsettled.
Although anecdotal accounts of gender inequality abound, systematic research …

The Supreme Court's reapportionment decisions, beginning with Baker v. Carr in 1962, had
far more than jurisprudential consequences. They sparked a massive wave of extraordinary …

This paper develops a model of incumbency advantage that takes into account candidate
quality, and then estimates the parameters of that model using panel data on the US House …