The impact of money on politics—whether through campaign finance, lobbying, or
independent expenditure—raises key normative questions about democratic representation …

Observed fiscal policy varies greatly across time and countries. How can we explain this
variation? This paper surveys the recent literature that has tried to answer this question. We …

Scholars of the US House disagree over the importance of political parties in organizing the
legislative process. On the one hand, non-partisan theories stress how congressional …

This landmark theoretical book is about the mechanisms by which special interest groups
affect policy in modern democracies. Defining a special interest group as any organization …

Politicians and pundits alike have complained that the divided governments of the last
decades have led to legislative gridlock. Not so, argues Keith Krehbiel, who advances the …

In the later decades of the twentieth century, Africa plunged into political chaos. States failed,
governments became predators, and citizens took up arms. In When Things Fell Apart …

With the European Parliament comprising politicians from many different countries, cultures,
languages, national parties and institutional backgrounds, one might expect politics in the …

In Ideology and Congress, authors Poole and Rosenthal have analyzed over 13 million
individual roll call votes spanning the two centuries since Congress began recording votes …

Ten of the 15 seats on the UN Security Council are held by rotating members serving two-
year terms. We find that a country's US aid increases by 59 percent and its UN aid by 8 …

A new rationale is presented for why an elite may want to expand the franchise even in the
absence of threats to the established order. Expanding the franchise can turn politicians …