In, Frank Baumgartner and Beth Leech characterized a series of problems in the interest
group research published between 1950 and 1995. In this article, we assess whether recent …

Why do Republican politicians promise to rein in government, only to face repeated
rebellions from Republican voters and media critics for betraying their principles? Why do …

The theory of parties put forward by scholars associated with the University of California at
Los Angeles argues that political parties are best viewed as coalitions of intense policy …

Taking Our Country Back presents the previously untold history of the uptake of new media
in Democratic electoral campaigning over the last decade. Drawing on interviews with more …

The rise of the Tea Party redefined both the Republican Party and how we think about
intraparty conflict. What initially appeared to be an anti-Obama protest movement of fiscal …

Why do Democratic women seek and hold office more frequently than Republican women?
We use an original survey of donors to party campaign committees and women's political …

According to a widespread assumption, party–interest group links are significantly weaker
than they used to be. Both sets of organizations, it is said, now prefer autonomy over the …

Investigations of American politics have increasingly turned to analyses of political networks
to understand public opinion, voting behavior, the diffusion of policy ideas, bill sponsorship …

Scholarship on primary election outcomes has largely ignored the ability of political parties
to shape outcomes and influence the decisions of candidates to compete for the party's …

A LMOST forty years ago, Congress began the project of com-prehensive federal campaign
finance regulation with the Federal Election Campaign Act Amendments of 1974 (" …