Political science scholar James M. Curry explores the inner workings of Congress's House
of Representatives in this thought-provoking analysis. The 2009 financial stimulus bill ran to …

Efforts to reform the US campaign finance system typically focus on the corrupting influence
of large contributions. Yet, as Raymond J. La Raja and Brian F. Schaffner argue, reforms …

Reformers lament that, with every effort to regulate the sources of campaign funding,
candidates creatively circumvent the new legislation. But in fact, political fundraisers don't …

For decades, advocates of congressional reforms have repeatedly attempted to clean up the
House committee system, which has been called inefficient, outmoded, unaccountable, and …

We explore the foundations of the legislative party cartel, as theorized by Cox and
McCubbins (1993, 2005), to determine how majority‐party moderates who suffer net policy …

With the need for ever increasing sums of money to fuel the ongoing campaign for majority
control, both Republicans and Democrats have made large donations to the party and its …

Social media platforms like Twitter enable policymakers to communicate their policy
preferences directly and provide a bird's‐eye view of their diverse policy agendas. In this …

Most researchers assume legislators repay past favors to secure future rewards and avoid
future punishments, but a growing literature shows that human beings are intrinsically …

In the first comprehensive study of the subject in decades, political scholar Matthew Green
disputes the conventional belief that the minority party in the US House of Representatives is …

Winner of the 2009 Richard F. Fenno Jr. Prize of the Legislative Studies Section of the
American Political Science Association While students of American politics are accustomed …