Gary Jacobson's classic text provides students with a comprehensive introduction to
congressional elections and the electoral process. Based on the latest data from the …

What does it take for women to win political office? This book uncovers a gendered
qualifications gap, showing that women need to be significantly more qualified than men to …

Political dynasties, families in which multiple members have held elected office, commonly
feature in the US Congress. I explored the electoral origins of this phenomenon and …

Contested Transformation constitutes the first comprehensive study of racial and ethnic
minorities holding elective office in the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first …

Fundamental questions about incumbent safety have been difficult to answer because of the
absence of adequate measures of incumbent prospects and incumbent quality. If …

Research suggests that endorsements should affect outcomes in low-information elections
such as primaries, but that hypothesis has not yet been tested empirically. Based on a …

We draw on research from gender stereotypes and mass communication to develop and test
an innovative theoretical framework of implicit and explicit gender framing. This framework …

This article examines differences in news coverage of female candidates using a media
sociology framework that examines the interplay between organizational, routine, and …

From the 1980s to the mid‐2010s, nearly three‐quarters of members newly elected to the
US House of Representatives had previous elected experience; however, only half of the …

Popular constitutionalism defies easy definition.'Its leading theorists fail to offer a common
reading of constitutional history, a common methodology, or even a common set of …