Value for Money? Community Targeting in Vote-Buying and Politician Accountability
Community targeting of vote payments - defined as the saturation of entire neighborhoods with cash prior to elections - is widespread in the developing world.
Research
Off-Cycle and Out of Office: Election Timing and the Incumbency Advantage
Democratic accountability relies on the ability of citizens to reward and punish politicians in elections.
Recursive Representation
The representative system is coming under increasing strain in many democratic countries.
Life After Dictatorship: Authoritarian Successor Parties Worldwide
Life after Dictatorship launches a new research agenda on authoritarian successor parties worldwide.
The Politics of Selecting the Bench from the Bar: The Legal Profession and Partisan Incentives to Introduce Ideology into Judicial Selection
Using a new dataset capturing the ideological positioning of nearly half a million U.S.
Redistribution Under the Right in Latin America: Electoral Competition and Organized Actors in Policymaking
Unexpected social policy expansion and progressive tax reforms initiated by right-wing governments in Latin America highlight the need for further theory development on the politics of redistribution.
Recursive Representation in the Representative System
In recursive representation both representatives and constituents take in what the other is saying, update, revise, and respond on the basis of their own experience, then listen to the others’ respons
America Needs Big Ideas to Heal Our Divides. Here Are Three
American democratic institutions are under attack — with presidential insults slung at the independent judiciary, allegations of “fake news” and “alternative facts” undercutting public understanding o
How the U.S. Can Quell the Kurdish Crisis
More than 90 percent of Iraq's Kurds voted to declare independence last week, bringing tensions to an even higher boil across the Middle East.
“What Citizens Can See of the State”: Police and the Construction of Democratic Citizenship in Latin America
Police exercise the state’s monopoly of legitimate use of force, a fundamental state function that shapes the construction of citizenship.
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