Democracy for Sale is an on-the-ground account of Indonesian democracy, analyzing its
election campaigns and behind-the-scenes machinations. Edward Aspinall and Ward …

This research note summarizes initial research from a wider project on the determinants of
candidate selection procedures. It seeks to contribute to the growing literature on candidate …

Inequality and taxation are fundamental problems of modern times. How and when can
democracies tax economic elites? This book develops a theoretical framework that refines …

Can too much participation harm democracy? Democratic theory places great importance
upon the conduct of elections, but it is not often recognized that the electoral game takes …

This article integrates the comparative literature on gender quotas with the existing body of
research on women's substantive representation. Quota laws, which bring greater numbers …

Why do some parties fail to benefit from patronage in pork‐ridden political systems? This
article analyzes the interaction between patronage and partisanship to explain why some …

Legislatures are the core representative institutions in modern democracies. Citizens want
legislatures to be decisive, and they want accountability, but they are frequently disillusioned …

Since elite women mobilised around suffrage rights in the nineteenth century, gaining
access to decision-making power has been a central objective of women's movements in …

Does it matter that working‐class citizens are numerically underrepresented in political
offices throughout the world? For decades, the conventional wisdom in comparative politics …

This article explores how new groups can be marginalized after they gain representation in
the legislature. We use data from six Latin American legislatures to examine the effect of …