Policy entrepreneurs are energetic actors who engage in collaborative efforts in and around
government to promote policy innovations. Given the enormous challenges now facing …

It is widely reported that partisanship in the United States Congress is at an historic high.
Given that individuals are persuaded to follow party lines while having the opportunity and …

The bargaining model of war envisions the initiation, prosecution, termination, and
consequences of war as part of a single bargaining process. This article focuses on the most …

Writing with clarity and precision, David Andrew Singer makes a major contribution to our
understanding of the international regulation of capital flows. His puzzle is why different …

Standing out from all other books on direct democracy, Citizenship and Contemporary Direct
Democracy connects the study of direct democracy to the broader field of comparative …

Parliamentary obstruction, popularly known as the" filibuster," has been a defining feature of
the US Senate throughout its history. In this book, Gregory J. Wawro and Eric Schickler …

Though the number of women elected to the US state legislatures has grown substantially in
the last forty years, researchers still struggle to connect women's presence in the legislature …

Political scientists know remarkably little about the extent to which legislatures are able to
influence policymaking in parliamentary democracies. In this article, we focus on the …

This article lays out a theoretical framework for understanding the effects of political
uncertainty on party development and strategies of mobilization and competition. Defining …

Voters have strong incentives to increase their influence by trading votes, acquiring others'
votes when preferences are strong in exchange for giving votes away when preferences are …