This article considers the impact of public opinion on public policy, asking:(1) how much
impact it has;(2) how much the impact increases as the salience of issues increases;(3) to …

▪ Abstract A central claim of democratic theory is that democracy induces governments to be
responsive to the preferences of the people. Political parties organize politics in every …

The green patent fast-track (GPFT) system is an improvement of the traditional patent
examination system in the field of green innovation. Based on the unique perspective of …

Can meaningful representation emerge in an authoritarian setting? If so, how, when, and
why? Making Autocracy Work identifies the trade-offs associated with representation in …

Disadvantaged groups gain advantages from descriptive representation in at least four
contexts. In contexts of group mistrust and uncrystallized interests, the better communication …

Along with the traditional “promissory” form of representation, empirical political scientists
have recently analyzed several new forms, called here “anticipatory,”“gyroscopic,” and …

Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal have analyzed 16 million individual roll call votes
spanning the two centuries since the two Houses of Congress began recording votes in …

Multilevel data are structures that consist of multiple units of analysis, one nested within the
other. Such data are becoming quite common in political science and provide numerous …

Over the last two decades institutional critics have increasingly charged that moneyed
interests dominate the legislative process in Congress. Systematic research on campaign …

In Ideology and Congress, authors Poole and Rosenthal have analyzed over 13 million
individual roll call votes spanning the two centuries since Congress began recording votes …