Policy Consequences of Civil Society: Evidence from German-American Counter-Mobilization to Prohibition
What impact do mass civil society groups have on public policy?
Research
A decade-long longitudinal survey shows that the Supreme Court is now much more conservative than the public
Has the US Supreme Court become more conservative than the public?
Where you sit is where you stand: education-based descriptive representation and perceptions of democratic quality
Scholars of descriptive representation have paid growing attention to the issue of class.
The Popular Origins of Legislative Jurisdictions: Petitions and Standing Committee Formation in Colonial Virginia and the Early US House
Committee formation in early American legislatures happened when those assemblies were inundated with petitions, a relationship unexamined in institutional political science.
Survey: Americans love conspiracy theories, and that’s dangerous for everyone
A segment of the American population has long embraced conspiratorial thinking. False beliefs about moon landings or space aliens may seem as innocuous as they are outlandish.
Designing Supreme Court Term Limits
Since the Founding, Supreme Court Justices have enjoyed life tenure.
State Policies and the US Election Franchise: A Multistage Approach
Studies that examine the impacts of state policies on voter participation tend to focus on one of five stages: eligibility, registration, turnout, balloting, and counting.
Leading with Intentionality: The 4P Framework for Strategic Leadership
The ability to exercise leadership effectively requires skills and capacities that must be developed; they are not innate.
Extreme Leaders As Negotiation Anchors
Legislative leaders tend to be ideologically more extreme than their median members. Why? This paper shows that party members select extreme leaders as a strategic measure to anchor negotiations.
Subnational economic conditions and the changing geography of mass Euroscepticism: A longitudinal analysis
Existing research mainly analyzes mass attitudes towards the European Union (EU) from the national and individual-level perspective.
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