Objective Lobbying by nonprofits is a relatively new topic that has drawn attention from
political science scholars and nonprofit managers. Several studies have demonstrated there …

Obstruction is a fundamental aspect of legislative politics. In the United States Congress,
senators exercise procedural prerogatives to defeat a bill with which they disagree on policy …

In the United States, the decentralization of power over redistricting to the states has
prevented the emergence of a national compromise between the major political parties to …

This dissertation takes up the question of how interest group ratings contribute to our
understanding of legislator ideology. By judiciously picking which roll calls are included in …