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The Paradox of Adversity: New Left Party Survival and Collapse in Latin America
(2014-02-25)
Political parties are the basic building blocks of representative democracy. They reduce information costs for voters, enhance executive accountability, and contribute to democratic governability by facilitating legislative ...
Knowledge Matters: Policy Cross-Pressures and Black Partisanship
(Springer Verlag, 2014)
Black Americans are a core Democratic constituency, despite holding views on social issues that put them in conflict with the party. Conventional wisdom attributes this partisan commitment to the salience of race and ...
The Rational Non-Candidate: A Theory of Candidate Deterrence
(2014-06-06)
This research presents results of a multi-year, multi-site investigation into the political ambition of young eligible candidates, with a focus on ambition gaps in gender and race. Using an original survey and interviews ...
When parties are not teams: party positions in single-member district and proportional representation systems
(Springer Verlag, 2012)
Theoretical analyses of party positions commonly assume that parties act as teams to maximize their legislative representation. This assumption runs counter to another line of theorizing in which individual legislators ...
The Effects of Redistricting on Incumbents
(Mary Ann Liebert, 2012)
We analyze the effects of redistricting on the electoral fortunes of incumbent legislators, using voting data on U.S. congressional districts, state legislative districts, and statewide races. We find little evidence that ...
Deliberating Democratization with Tocqueville: The Case of East Asia
(Cambridge University Press, 2013)
'Anti-Benthamism': Utilitarianism and the French Liberal Tradition
(Cambridge University Press, 2012)
Fear, Friction, and Flooding: Methods of Online Information Control
(2014-06-06)
Many scholars have speculated that censorship efforts will be ineffective in the information age, where the possibility of accessing incriminating information about almost any political entity will benefit the masses at ...
Evolution of Risk and Political Regimes
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)
The risk of political predation impedes the achievement of economic prosperity. In this study, we analyze how the risk of predation evolves in different political regimes. Formally, we look at the interaction between a ...
Lessons from History, or the Perfidy of English Exceptionalism and the Significance of Historical France
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 1988)
Theories of development are derived from readings of history. Modern historical research challenges many of the basic beliefs about how economies develop. More specifically, recent research suggests that the lessons drawn ...