Challenger parties are on the rise in Europe, exemplified by the likes of Podemos in Spain,
the National Rally in France, the Alternative for Germany, or the Brexit Party in Great Britain …

Rarely these days does a news cycle pass without new stories of political dysfunction in
Washington, DC New reports of stalemates, fiscal cliffs, and failed grand bargains have …

Parliamentary debate is a fundamental aspect of democratic law-making. While law makers
everywhere seek to express their views in parliament, there are large discrepancies in who …

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 …

Democratic transitions in the early 1990s introduced a sea change in Sub-Saharan African
politics. Between 1990 and 2015, several hundred competitive legislative and presidential …

Using decades of public opinion data from the US, UK, Australia, Germany and Canada, and
distinguishing between three concepts-issue ownership, performance and generalised …

Efforts to reform the US campaign finance system typically focus on the corrupting influence
of large contributions. Yet, as Raymond J. La Raja and Brian F. Schaffner argue, reforms …

The question of whether voter bias exists toward female politicians remains unsettled.
Although anecdotal accounts of gender inequality abound, systematic research …

This article demonstrates that limits on campaign contributions—which alter a candidate's
ability to raise money from certain types of donors—affect the ideologies of legislators in …

Some studies of policy representation test hypotheses about the relationship between
citizens' views and elites' positions on multiple issues by proceeding one issue at a time …