Democratic theorists have paid increasing attention to problems of political representation
over the past two decades. Interest is driven by (a) a political landscape within which …

In their hasty response to the recent wave of populist victories, many analysts have ignored
previous scholarship on populism. In contrast, contributors to this special issue draw from …

What do Beppe Grillo, Silvio Berlusconi, Emmanuel Macron (and also Donald Trump) have
in common? They are prime examples of the personalization of politics and the decline of …

This book provides a framework for analyzing the impact of the separation of powers on
party politics. Conventional political science wisdom assumes that democracy is impossible …

Word embeddings, the coefficients from neural network models predicting the use of words
in context, have now become inescapable in applications involving natural language …

Millions of enfranchised people live in abject poverty in democracies around the world. Yet
in representative democracies, the success or failure of political parties rests on their ability …

Although the literature examining the relationship between ideological congruence and
electoral rules is quite large, relatively little attention has been paid to how congruence …

One argument advanced in favor of descriptive representation is that female politicians
serve as role models, inspiring other women to political activity. While previous research …

Lay politics lies at the heart of democracy. Political offices are the only offices for which no
formal qualifications are required. Contemporary political practices are diametrically …

Governments in democratic systems are expected to respond to the issue preferences of
citizens. Yet we have a limited understanding of the factors that cause levels of …