Recent studies of economic voting have focused on the role of the local economy, but with
inconclusive results. We argue that while local economic conditions affect incumbent …

Throughout American history, presidents have shown a startling power to act independently
of Congress and the courts. On their own initiative, presidents have taken the country to war …

To what extent do voters hold local elected leaders accountable for public service delivery in
fiscally and politically decentralized environments, as theory suggests should be the case …

Why has US commercial policy become increasingly politicized in the twenty-first century?
We argue that this politicization reflects an interaction between elite rhetoric on unfair trade …

Previous studies using aggregate-level designs demonstrated that the tone of economic
news affects consumer confidence. However, the individual-level mechanisms underlying …

Political theorists have argued that democracies should strive for high turnout, leading to an
argument for the introduction of compulsory voting, one of the surest ways to increase …

The economic voting literature disagrees over the exogeneity of economic perceptions on
individual electoral behavior. One side argues that economic perceptions are driven by …

What policy changes do people expect from elections, and how do these expectations
influence the decision to vote? This paper seeks to understand the relationship between …

Scholarly accounts attribute the American South's historic partisan transformation that began
in the 1960s to a combination of political and economic factors, but no prior work …

Are bureaucrats “budget-maximizers?” There has been mixed support for this argument.
Furthermore, these different results tend to be clustered by geography. Is there a country …