In democracies, power is obtained via competition. Yet, as women gain access to
parliaments in record numbers, worldwide collaboration appears to be on the rise. This is …

This article challenges a key part of the conventional view of coalitions in presidential
systems that sees them as short-lived and ad hoc. The author shows instead that there is …

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 …

Este trabajo analiza bajo qué condiciones los presidentes logran dominar la agenda
legislativa. Para abordar esta cuestión analizamos los períodos gubernamentales de 30 …

In this volume, twelve experts on Latin American politics investigate the ways in which the
interaction between legislative institutions and the policy positions of key actors affects the …

In multiparty legislatures, the largest party or coalition may fall short of controlling a majority
of plenary seats. However, plurality‐led congresses generally endow the largest parties with …

This paper studies the long-range dependence and multifractal content of US political time-
series to gather a deeper understanding of sociophysic phenomena. Specifically, multifractal …

While popular with voters, politicians rarely advance anticorruption policies because they
can personally inconvenience them. When do the benefits of anticorruption reform outweigh …

This paper argues that there is a strong relationship between geographical patterns of
political parties' electoral performance and the composition of central government …

This paper explores the causal relationship between vote outcomes in different elections.
We ask:(1) Does the partisan identity of the mayor influence the voter's decision in …