Legislative gridlock is often viewed as a uniquely democratic phenomenon. The institutional
checks and balances that produce gridlock are absent from authoritarian systems, leading …

Gridlock is not a modern legislative condition. Although the term is said to have entered the
American political lexicon after the 1980 elections, Alexander Hamilton complained about it …

David Mayhew's Divided We Govern (1991) sparked an industry of scholars who alternately
challenge or confirm the work on theoretical and empirical grounds. Still, we lack a definitive …

This article focuses on the manipulation of legislative rules in electoral authoritarian states.
Electoral liberalization in authoritarian regimes creates the capacity for opposition forces to …

Studies on Chinese politics frequently utilize the safety valve analogy to describe various
political decisions that allow space for feedback and challenges. Drawing upon these …

This article investigates how parties affect legislative gridlock-the inability of government to
enact significant proposals on the policy agenda. Conventional accounts suggest that …

Recent years have witnessed many efforts to understand legislative productivity and
gridlock. However, despite theoretical and empirical contributions to how preferences and …

Although political methodologists are well aware of measurement issues and the problems
that can be created, such concerns are not always front and center when we are doing …

This special issue demonstrates that authoritarian legislatures often matter for their
countries' policy processes in myriad ways, despite the fact that their influence is constrained …

Although most legislatures do not play significant roles in the lawmaking, policy, or resource
allocation processes, their durability and resilience as institutions are widely assumed to be …