Antipartyism and its partner in negativity, antipartisanship, have a distinguished, even
brilliant pedigree. On the Side of the Angels is my assessment of antipartyism, designed to …

We exploit variation in US gubernatorial term limits across states and time to empirically
estimate two separate effects of elections on government performance. Holding tenure in …

We review a large formal literature on economic models of voting and electoral politics. We
discuss two broad classes of model: those focusing on preference aggregation and those …

Contemporary advances in the field of political economy, particularly those concerning the
subject of delegated authority, can provide a unifying framework for analyzing the behavior …

Most US state supreme court justices face elections or reappointment by elected officials,
and research suggests that judicial campaigns have come to resemble those for other …

Politicians vary in both their competence and their policy preferences. We show that how
voters trade off competence against ideological congruence has key implications for the type …

A wide range of literature on ethnic conflict and terrorism has argued that domestic
competition increases the likelihood that a political organization will use violence in an effort …

Judges face retention elections in over a third of US state courts of last resort and numerous
lower courts. According to conventional wisdom, these elections engender judicial …

Various literatures indicate that partisan labels increase the accountability of elected
officials. Correspondingly, advocates of nonpartisan elections claim that this procedure …

Do elected representatives reflect the preferences of the citizens they represent? Recent
studies from the United States and a number of other democracies have found that …