Is the US Congress dysfunctional? The American public thinks so: In the summer of 2014,
just 7% approved strongly of Congress. Still, legislative scholars disagree about the severity …

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

The dominant academic view with respect to regulatory policy holds that individual
regulations should not concern themselves with questions of distribution. Instead, rules …

Governing Health examines health care policy making from a long-term, political
perspective, describing how Congress, the president, special interest groups, bureaucracy …

NATO has been a successful forum for managing European security policy. Yet European
governments have repeatedly tried to build a new security institution in NATO's shadow. In …

This study aims to investigate the relationships of perceived service quality, brand image,
customer satisfaction, and purchase intention. The moderated mediating role of brand love …

Ideal point estimators hold the promise of identifying multiple dimensions of political
disagreement as they are manifested in legislative voting. However, standard ideal point …

We explore the foundations of the legislative party cartel, as theorized by Cox and
McCubbins (1993, 2005), to determine how majority‐party moderates who suffer net policy …

Positions of influence over the legislative agenda provide greater opportunities for shaping
policy outcomes. Do legislators take advantage of this? If they do, when the median is …

Formal Models of Domestic Politics offers a unified and accessible approach to canonical
and important new models of politics. Intended for political science and economics students …