Why do some parties fail to benefit from patronage in pork‐ridden political systems? This
article analyzes the interaction between patronage and partisanship to explain why some …

Violent protests are dramatic political events, yet we know little about the effect of these
events on political behavior. While scholars typically treat violent protests as deliberate acts …

Zelig 1 is an easy-to-use program that can estimate and help interpret the results of an
enormous and growing range of statistical models. It literally is “everyone's statistical …

A fundamental problem in many disciplines, including political science, sociology and
epidemiology, is the examination of the association between two binary variables across a …

The vast majority of African American officeholders are elected from jurisdictions with sizable
numbers of African Americans. The most common explanation for this phenomenon locates …

Party assistance in Bosnia and Herzegovina has focused on encouraging multiethnic and
moderate mono-ethnic parties by placing funding and political restrictions on …

Ecological inference refers to the study of individuals using aggregate data and it is used in
an impressive number of studies; it is well known, however, that the study of individuals …

Despite considerable examination, scholars have yet to definitively establish the relationship
between a legislator's racial background and his or her legislative activities. We assess the …

Contrary to the body of literature in political violence, and the rhetoric of many parties of the
conflict, time-series models of “the troubles” in Northern Ireland by White (1993) and …

In 1878 the liberal parties lost enough votes to lose the majority in the parliament which they
had defended in the general election just one year before. In this article, the questions of …