As national political fights are waged at the state level, democracy itself pays the price Over
the past generation, the Democratic and Republican parties have each become nationally …

Why are Americans governed by the rich? Millionaires make up only three percent of the
public but control all three branches of the federal government. How did this happen? What …

In representative democracies, a variety of rules are employed to select and retain public
officials to reflect public preferences over policies. We discuss the literature on selection and …

Government agencies may be an additional source of unequal representation beyond that
stemming from the differential responsiveness of elected officials. We use plausibly …

Property titling enables tax collection and encourages private investment. Yet, governments
across the developing world often fail to invest in land registration systems, such as …

Government agencies may be an additional source of unequal representation beyond those
stemming from the differential responsiveness of elected officials. In this paper, we use …

Do elections motivate incumbent politicians to serve their voters? In this paper, we use
millions of service requests placed by residents in US cities to measure constituency …

Despite the enormous size of the urban population, political scientists have very little
knowledge of the capacity for substantive representation in large cities. This article develops …

Studying local politics is key to answering fundamental questions of who gets what, how,
and when in the United States. And understanding institutions–the rules and structures that …

Context: This project investigates the role of state-level institutions in explaining variation in
population health in the American states. Although cross-national research has established …