Now in a thoroughly revised Fifth Edition, An Introduction to the Policy Process provides
students at all levels with an accessible, readable, and affordable introduction to the field of …

This review examines the scientific research on constituency service from 1975 to 2024,
leveraging a dataset of 161 documents from the Scopus database. Statistical analysis using …

We examine the impact of candidates' gender on the body language that they employ in
their political advertisements. Using data on over 1,600 candidates appearing in almost …

Why are some subnational governments more likely to lobby the national government than
others? Extant research in social sciences has widely discussed lobbying dynamics in the …

We evaluate three measures of state legislative professionalism: Squire's (1992) index that
measures professionalism relative to the US House, Bowen and Greene's (2014b) two …

Many scholars have examined the nature of campaign advertising strategy across differing
contexts in US elections. Little attention has been devoted to exploring the incentives that …

This study attempts to unmask the relative importance of partisan alignments vis-à-vis the
relevance of individual candidate characteristics for the voters. To facilitate this analysis, our …

Understanding the gaps and connections across existing theories and findings is a
perennial challenge in scientific research. Systematically reviewing scholarship is especially …

Scholars often identify gerrymanders by examining changes to districts' partisan
composition. However, advantages can also be gained by systematically varying the extent …

Theories of representation suggest that candidates should respond ideologically to their
constituency. Two-stage elections like those in the US force candidates to decide which …