These essays explain why the difference between governments and national voting systems with a pr...

The second edition of Legislative Leviathan provides an incisive new look at the inner workings o...

Advocates of parliamentary rule have been highly critical of presidentialism for dividing powers ...

Do political institutions significantly influence policy outcomes? If so, how and why do they mak...

First published in 1987, Congress: Structure and Policy is a review of congressional research fro...

Voters cannot answer simple survey questions about politics. Legislators cannot recall the detail...

Demonstrates that the majority party seizes agenda control at nearly every stage of the legislati...

This book offers a comparative perspective on how presidential democracies make public policy.

Why would sovereigns ever grant political or economic liberty to their subjects? Under what condi...

Scholars of the U.S. House disagree over the importance of political parties in organizing the le...

The second edition of Legislative Leviathan provides an incisive new look at the inner workings o...

Advances in the social sciences are used to uncover cognitive foundations of social decision making.

Can only well-informed citizens make good political decisions? In THE DEMOCRATIC DILEMMA, the aut...

Many social scientists want to explain why people do what they do. A barrier to constructing such...

The authors in this edited volume examine the political economy of the history of Congress by sho...

In recent decades, political scientists have produced an enormous body of scholarship dealing wit...

The authors in this edited volume examine the political economy of the history of Congress by sho...

'All of these essays constitute high-powered marriages between sophisticated quantitative methods...