We use new data on entries and exits of US daily newspapers from 1869 to 2004 to estimate
effects on political participation, party vote shares, and electoral competitiveness. Our …

Incumbents in many developing democracies face significant disadvantages when seeking
reelection, in stark contrast to the well-known incumbency advantage in the United States …

The direct primary stands as one of the most significant and distinctive political reforms of the
Progressive era in American history. In this book, the authors provide the most …

This study synthesizes two theoretical literatures to explain gender differences in Twitter
usage and effectiveness among US Congressional candidates. The first suggests that …

Epistocratic arrangements are widely rejected because there will be reasonable
disagreement about which citizens count as epistemically superior and an epistemically …

The incumbency advantage is typically thought to constrain female political representation,
but can female incumbency provide a signal to parties that reduces strategic gender bias …

Between the 1999 and 2009 elections the proportion of national female legislators in
Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim majority democracy, more than doubled. While this …

In this article we use a novel research design that exploits unique features of multimember
districts to estimate and decompose the incumbency advantage in state legislative elections …

Scholars have long deplored voters' lack of interest in politics and argued in favor of greater
political engagement. We present a formal theory of elections where successful …

Recent empirical studies have found a incumbency disadvantage in many developing
democracies, in marked contrast with the well-known incumbency advantage in the US and …