Congressional debates are increasingly defined by gridlock and stalemate, with partisan
showdowns that lead to government shutdowns. Compromise in Congress seems hard to …

Constituency service is a crucial concept for understanding the nature and intensity of the
links between representatives and their constituents. However, studies have been …

Once elected, congresspeople face choices about how to allocate their time and effort. What
is the right balance between working in the district and on Capitol Hill? How much …

What drives legislators to emphasize local issues in a nationalized setting? Although the
representation literature has highlighted why legislators present themselves as district‐or …

What do citizens want from their members of Congress? Do they expect them to be
constituent servants? Do they expect them to work on local problems? Or do they expect …

This study offers experimental tests of the “personal vote” in an era of heightened
partisanship and polarization. Using three national surveys, we randomly present …

While a rich literature addresses legislative agenda-setting in multiparty democracies,
relatively little is known how members of parliament disseminate the legislative agenda …

For incumbents to be accountable for their issue stances, voters must sanction incumbents
whose positions are “out of step” with their own. We test the electoral accountability of British …

In flexible-list proportional representation systems, where voters are allowed to cast
candidate preference votes, parties have much control over which candidates win seats. The …

Parliamentarians greatly differ with regard to the amount and quality of their work in
parliament. Students of legislator behaviour mostly view Members of Parliament (MPs) as …