When Agendas and Instability in American Politics appeared fifteen years ago, offering a
profoundly original account of how policy issues rise and fall on the national agenda, the …

In 1982, I published several issues of a samdizat scholarly journal called Random ization
with the aid of an 8-bit, I-MH personal computer with 48K of memory (upgraded to 64K later …

This Article examines a recent and dramatic transformation in the relationship between the
President (and his staff) and the administrative state. Professor Kagan argues that President …

Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal have analyzed 16 million individual roll call votes
spanning the two centuries since the two Houses of Congress began recording votes in …

In this controversial book, Keith Krehbiel investigates and casts doubt upon a view of
Congress held by many academics, journalists, and members of the lay public: that …

The second edition of Legislative Leviathan provides an incisive new look at the inner
workings of the House of Representatives in the post-World War II era. Re-evaluating the …

Do lobbyists provide issue-specific information to members of Congress? Or do they provide
special interests access to politicians? We present evidence to assess the role of issue …

Most models of political decision-making maintain that individual preferences remain
relatively constant. Why, then, are there often sudden abrupt changes in public opinion on …

In Ideology and Congress, authors Poole and Rosenthal have analyzed over 13 million
individual roll call votes spanning the two centuries since Congress began recording votes …

The common sense of man approves the judgment mentioned by Puffen-dorf, that the
Bolognian law which enacted," that whoever drew blood in the streets should be punished …