A comprehensive introduction to public policy and the policy cycle, the fully revised second
edition of this popular textbook offers a practical guide to the topic while remaining …

Responsiveness is a central quality of representative democracy. During the past decades,
a number of innovative studies have advanced our knowledge about actual responsiveness …

We live in a time of protest. Relative to sociology, political science has traditionally paid little
attention to 'extra-institutional'forms of political behaviour. For its part, sociology has tended …

The Comparative Agendas Project (CAP) brings together data on government activities in
over twenty countries, and provides a consistent categorizing system to understand when a …

Do parties listen to their voters? This article addresses this important question by moving
beyond position congruence to explore whether parties respond to voters' issue priorities. It …

How responsive are political parties to the issue priorities of voters? While there are
numerous studies that examine policy position congruence between parties and voters or …

For the past decade, I have spent more time discussing fishing than I would have ever
expected when I started my career in political science. Amazingly this is not because of an …

Spanish politics has been transformed. Using new techniques, this book looks at 30 years of
Spanish political history to understand party competition, the impact of the EU, media …

Depression is one of the most common health problems in the developed world. Previous
research has primarily investigated the relationship between depression and voting, largely …

The congruence between public preferences and public policy is of special importance in
representative democracies. We want to know whether the public is getting the policies it …