We study the competitive provision and endogenous acquisition of political information. Our
main result identifies a natural equilibrium channel through which a more competitive market …

Should turning out to vote in mass elections be voluntary or compulsory? Previous
normative arguments for compulsory voting often rely on contested normative claims about …

Tensions of American Federal Democracy uses an original analytical framework combined
with comparative perspectives–including those of other modern federal democracies–to …

We identify a novel channel through which competition among information providers
decreases the efficiency of electoral outcomes. The critical insight we put forward is that the …

" It is important that the litigant not only actually receive justice, but that he believe that he
has received justice. A judge, like Caesar's wife, should be above suspicion." 1 On June 8 …

We develop a model to analyze the effects of complexity of policy areas on the desirability of
bundling or unbundling policy-making authority. We find that bundling tends to increase …

To explore the effect of federal institutions on national political conflict, we develop a model
of two-level governance with interstate preference heterogeneity and cross-state …

Much of contemporary political debate in the United States focuses on the issue of
polarization: specifically, its causal antecedents and its consequences for policymaking and …

We present a theory of endogenous policy preferences and electoral competition with
boundedly rational voters who find it costly to process detailed information. Voters are …

We introduce a notion of political polarization that takes into account not just the distance
between agents' preferred policies, but also the intensity of this preference. We refer to this …