Collaboration plays a key role in crafting good public policy. We use a novel data set of over
140,000 pieces of legislation considered in US state legislatures in 2015 to examine the …

We investigate the patterns of executive networking on LinkedIn, a crucial platform for
understanding the persistent gender disparities in leadership positions. Overcoming the …

This article highlights a new way in which descriptive representation enhances democracy
through inclusive party building. We theorize that parties retain and promote incumbents …

Effective lawmaking requires collaboration among legislators, who form coalitions to
advance their legislative agendas. In this paper, we explore how legislators' party and …

Although a large share of parliamentarians are parents, we know little about how
parenthood affects legislative activities and careers of parliamentarians. Children cost time …

Not all pieces of legislation introduced for consideration are equally likely to be successful.
The characteristics of legislation's cosponsors can influence bill passage rates. Despite …

Scholars have argued that female legislators are more prone to collaborate than their male
counterparts. Though collaboration may be more or less evident in particular situations, we …

It is common wisdom that the increase in the number of women in parliament brought along
a new diversity of perspectives presented in legislatures. So far, however, we know little …

Research about women's representation in county governments and whether women's
representation at the local level translates into different policy outcomes has been relatively …

Studies of how previous political experience affects a candidate's electoral success have
overlooked the experience that candidates get from running campaigns even if they lose …