Recent research on organizational ecology is reviewed. Three levels of analysis and
approaches to evolution are distinguished:(a) the organizational level, which uses a …

▪ Abstract The study of race and US politics has always been controversial in the discipline.
Theory and evidence are often ignored or misconstrued. Furthermore, literatures that …

In The Turnout Gap, Bernard L. Fraga offers the most comprehensive analysis to date of the
causes and consequences of racial and ethnic disparities in voter turnout. Examining voting …

Disadvantaged groups gain advantages from descriptive representation in at least four
contexts. In contexts of group mistrust and uncrystallized interests, the better communication …

We use a field experiment to investigate whether race affects how responsive state
legislators are to requests for help with registering to vote. In an email sent to each legislator …

In democracies, power is obtained via competition. Yet, as women gain access to
parliaments in record numbers, worldwide collaboration appears to be on the rise. This is …

What if there were more women in Congress? Providing the first comprehensive study of the
policy activity of male and female legislators at the federal level, Michele L. Swers …

Women remain dramatically underrepresented in elective office, including in entry-level
political offices. While they enjoy the freedom to stand for office and therefore have an equal …

In Ideology and Congress, authors Poole and Rosenthal have analyzed over 13 million
individual roll call votes spanning the two centuries since Congress began recording votes …

In an updated new edition of this classic work, a team of highly respected sociologists,
political scientists, economists, criminologists, and legal scholars scrutinize the resilience of …