The gap between actual carbon prices and those required to achieve ambitious climate
change mitigation could be closed by enhancing the public acceptability of carbon pricing …

This book demonstrates the consequences of legislators' strategic communication for
representation in American politics. Representational Style in Congress shows how …

Scholars of post-communist politics often argue that parties in new democracies lack strong
organizations-sizable membership, local presence, and professional management-because …

Development projects like schools and latrines are popular with politicians and voters alike,
yet many developing countries are littered with half-finished projects that were abandoned …

Does control of patronage jobs significantly increase a political party's chances of winning
elections in US states? We employ a differences-in-differences design, exploiting the …

Recent accounts of American politics focus heavily on urban–rural gaps in political behavior.
Rural politics research is growing but may be stymied by difficulties defining and measuring …

A vast literature demonstrates that voters around the world who benefit from government
discretionary spending increase their electoral support for the incumbent party. But, contrary …

Being able to hold politicians accountable is the hallmark of democracy, and central to this is
the notion that politicians can run for reelection. Most research on reelection incentives …

Distributive politics models often predict that legislators will demand inefficiently large
projects, with inefficiency increasing in the number of districts, and that this will translate into …

In this paper, we investigate how political institutions affect policy outcomes. In particular,
does the level of political centralization affect the outcome of environmental …