Democratic theorists have paid increasing attention to problems of political representation
over the past two decades. Interest is driven by (a) a political landscape within which …

In their hasty response to the recent wave of populist victories, many analysts have ignored
previous scholarship on populism. In contrast, contributors to this special issue draw from …

Word embeddings, the coefficients from neural network models predicting the use of words
in context, have now become inescapable in applications involving natural language …

Recent work on the idea of political representation has challenged effectively orthodox
accounts of constituency and interests. However, discussions of representation need to …

This book provides a framework for analyzing the impact of the separation of powers on
party politics. Conventional political science wisdom assumes that democracy is impossible …

Although the literature examining the relationship between ideological congruence and
electoral rules is quite large, relatively little attention has been paid to how congruence …

One argument advanced in favor of descriptive representation is that female politicians
serve as role models, inspiring other women to political activity. While previous research …

The current worldwide democratic regression has prompted debate about the drivers of
democratic decline. One country experiencing decline is Indonesia, where most analysts …

Using new scaling methods and a comprehensive public opinion dataset, we develop the
first survey-based time-series–cross-sectional measures of policy ideology in European …

In this volume, experts on Latin American public opinion and political behavior employ
region-wide public opinion studies, elite surveys, experiments, and advanced statistical …