" Professor Gastil has been a leading voice in the deliberative democracy movement for the
last 15 years, and with this book he has created a wonderful resource that adeptly captures …

John Gastil challenges conventional assumptions about public opinion, elections, and
political expression in this persuasive treatise on how to revitalize the system of …

The concept of responsibility lies at the heart of theories of democratic accountability. This
article represents the first attempt to explicitly model attributions of presidential versus …

One of the most contentious issues in politics today is the propriety of electing judges. Ought
judges be independent of democratic processes in obtaining and retaining their seats, or …

I address the controversy over how judges should be selected by analyzing the electoral
fortunes of incumbents on supreme courts from 1980 through 1995 in the 38 states using …

Winner of the 2017 Mac Jewell Enduring Contribution Award of the APSA's State Politics
and Policy Section. Politics in the American States, Eleventh Edition, brings together the …

Federalism is designed to enhance democratic representation because it gives citizens the
opportunity to shape policymaking at multiple levels of government. This design feature is …

Comparative analyses of economic voting in Europe and in the American states suggest that
institutional context structures the assignment of political responsibility for policy outcomes …

Retrospective voting is a crucial component of democratic accountability. A large literature
on retrospective voting in the United States finds that the president's party is rewarded in …

This article calls into question the conventional wisdom that incumbent parties are rewarded
when unemployment is low and punished when it is high. Using county-level data on …