Economic conditions shape election outcomes in the world's democracies. Good times keep
parties in office, bad times cast them out. This proposition is robust, as the voluminous body …

Congress is crippled by ideological conflict. The political parties are more polarized today
than at any time since the Civil War. Americans disagree, fiercely, about just about …

▪ Abstract In the United States, televised political advertising is the main way that modern
campaigns communicate with voters. Although political scientists have made great progress …

This book represents a considerable revision and expansion of Public Choice II (1989). As
in the previous additions, all of the major topics of public choice are covered. These include …

Do voters effectively hold elected officials accountable for policy decisions? Using data on
natural disasters, government spending, and election returns, we show that voters reward …

As recently as the early 1970s, the news media was one of the most respected institutions in
the United States. Yet by the 1990s, this trust had all but evaporated. Why has confidence in …

Today we are politically polarized as never before. The presidential elections of 2000 and
2004 will be remembered as two of the most contentious political events in American history …

We propose that (1) the preadult socialization of longstanding, stable predispositions is
catalyzed by exogenous political events;(2) such events socialize attitudes selectively, only …

The struggle for democracy, central to Western politics for hundreds of years, is predicated
upon the belief that democratic institutions give citizens considerable power over their …

National economic conditions regularly influence outcomes in US presidential elections.
However, beyond this simple finding, much remains unclear. How large are national …