Consociationalist theory served initially as an explanation of political stability in a few deeply
divided European democracies. It argued that in these countries, the destabilizing effects of …

Abstract Public Opinion Quarterly at its outset focused heavily on the influences on public
opinion, predicated on the assumption of its strong impact on politics and policymaking. Has …

Conventional wisdom suggests that partisanship has little impact on voter behavior in Brazil;
what matters most is pork-barreling, incumbent performance, and candidates' charisma. This …

This article studies how public opinion is associated with the introduction of renewable
energy policies in Europe. While research increasingly seeks to model the link between …

Parliamentary debate is a fundamental aspect of democratic law-making. While law makers
everywhere seek to express their views in parliament, there are large discrepancies in who …

Political scientists have long classified systems of government as parliamentary or
presidential, two-party or multiparty, and so on. But such distinctions often fail to provide …

The article compares different political systems with respect to one property: their capacity to
produce policy change. I define the basic concept of the article, the 'veto player': veto players …

If public opinion changes and then public policy responds, this is dynamic representation.
Public opinion is the global policy preference of the American electorate. Policy is a diverse …

Do political institutions affect citizen satisfaction with democracy? If so, how? Using cross-
sectional survey data for eleven European democracies together with data on the type of …

Standard political economy models of redistribution, notably that of Meltzer and Richard
(1981), fail to account for the remarkable variance in government redistribution across …