We study how well states translate public opinion into policy. Using national surveys and
advances in subnational opinion estimation, we estimate state‐level support for 39 policies …

advancement of the regulatory state. They were fighting a proposed consumer protection
agency, trying to stop labor-law reform, and responding to a general sense that the values of …

Anecdotal evidence has suggested that mental health practitioners' report increased
caseloads of clients whose primary complaint involves the Internet. However, little is known …

Why is terrorist activity more prevalent in democracies than in nondemocracies? I argue that
the main motivation for terrorist attacks in democracies is intergroup dynamics, with terrorist …

Over the past 5 years, a new and unexpected form of interest representation has developed
in the European Union: subnational governments that mobilize directly in Brussels. The …

Why do organized interests lobby? Answering this seemingly obvious question has become
surprisingly difficult in light of recent research. One essential problem is that virtually all …

The Single European Act (SEA) came in with a whimper; the Maastricht Treaty (MAT) with a
bang. When the former was initialled in 1 985 and ratified in 1 986, even quite …

We modestly challenge Baumgartner and Leech's (1998) very pessimistic assessment of the
state of interest group research by arguing that there has been a rich collaboration of theory …

The theory of protest under varying levels of coercion forms the context for an investigation
of the data on protest coercion in Germany and Northern Ireland for 11 years (1982-92) …

Problem: Sustainability remains “the current object of planning's fascination,” as Campbell
described it in 1996, but it is unclear what causes local governments to adopt …