The past generation has witnessed a resurgence of religion in global politics, but political
science has been slow to catch up with it. The reason lies in the secularism embedded in the …

▪ Abstract Research on comparative decentralization and federalism is a booming industry.
Recent research integrates insights from political science, economics, and economic history …

Do voters effectively hold elected officials accountable for policy decisions? Using data on
natural disasters, government spending, and election returns, we show that voters reward …

The most important element in every election is getting voters to the polls—these get-out-the-
vote (GOTV) efforts make the difference between winning and losing office. With the first …

Scholars of the US House disagree over the importance of political parties in organizing the
legislative process. On the one hand, non-partisan theories stress how congressional …

" Mr. Manza and Mr. Uggen... wade into one of the most contested empirical debates in
political science: How many (if any) recent American elections would have gone differently if …

This project started in the late 1990s with the simple observation that however compelling
and elegant, leading theories of federalism in economics and political science had little to do …

This article presents an experiment in which 49 Indonesian villages were randomly
assigned to choose development projects through either representative-based meetings or …

Abstract The Voting Rights Act of 1965, called one of the most effective pieces of civil rights
legislation in US history, generated dramatic increases in black voter registration across the …

Do better‐informed people vote more? Recent formal theories of voter turnout emphasize a
positive effect of being informed on the propensity to vote, but the possibility of endogenous …