A nascent but growing research area examines political institutions through the use of field
experiments. I consider why field experimentation has been used infrequently in the study of …

▪ Abstract Models of veto bargaining have become an important tool for formal institutional
analysis. This chapter reviews the core model of veto bargaining and some of its more …

I often say that when you can mea sure what you are speaking about, and express it in
numbers, you know some thing about it; but when you cannot mea sure it, when you cannot …

Authored by two leading scholars of the Supreme Court and its policy making, this study
systematically presents and validates the use of the attitudinal model to explain and predict …

The development and elaboration of the spatial theory of voting has contributed greatly to
the study of legislative decision making and elections. Statistical models that estimate the …

Does a typical House member need to worry about the electoral ramifications of his roll-call
decisions? We investigate the relationship between incumbents' electoral performance and …

This Note provides data to illuminate whether and how the presence of female judges on
three-judge federal appellate panels affects collegial decisionmaking in a subset of gender …

Who Leads Whom? is an ambitious study that addresses some of the most important
questions in contemporary American politics: Do presidents pander to public opinion by …

Over the past two decades, the United States has seen an intense debate about the
composition of the federal judiciary. Are judges" activists"? Should they stop" legislating from …

Judges tend to" stampede" these remaining factors to conform to the test outcome,
particularly when they find infringement. This Article also makes a variety offactor-specific …