How do media portrayals of potential policy beneficiaries’ identities sway public support for these policies in a public health setting?…
Housing policy is one of the most important areas of local politics. Yet little is known about how local legislatures and executives make…
What impact do mass civil society groups have on public policy? We study this issue by analyzing opposition to national prohibition by…
Committee formation in early American legislatures happened when those assemblies were inundated with petitions, a relationship unexamined…
Since the Founding, Supreme Court Justices have enjoyed life tenure. This helps insulate the Justices from political pressures, but it also…
Legislative leaders tend to be ideologically more extreme than their median members. Why? This paper shows that party members select…