This article considers the impact of public opinion on public policy, asking:(1) how much
impact it has;(2) how much the impact increases as the salience of issues increases;(3) to …

Despite recent developments in “fiscal sociology”(ie the sociological analysis of taxation and
public finances), few efforts have been made to synthesize scholarly developments in the …

Are large American corporations politically unified or divided? This question, which has
important implications for the viability of American democracy, has frustrated social scientists …

Most people believe that large corporations wield enormous political power when they lobby
for policies as a cohesive bloc. With this controversial book, Mark A. Smith sets conventional …

The struggle for democracy, central to Western politics for hundreds of years, is predicated
upon the belief that democratic institutions give citizens considerable power over their …

How does public opinion affect presidential policymaking? We address this issue by testing
a diverse set of hypotheses with data concerning a set of individual policies across time. In …

This article reviews recent research on how mass opinion affects policy making in the
context of US national institutions. Three themes materialize. First, research provides …

This paper first surveys the four principal positions in the debate about the policy influence of
professional experts—technocracy, extensive mandates, limited mandates, and “servants of …

In both systemic and realist theories, hegemons are expected to deter major intra-core wars
that would upset their favored position in the status quo. Yet the conceptions, measures, and …

For most of the history of the capitalist world-economy, imperial conquest was the principal
factor in creating a periphery to the European imperial core. This study focuses on how the …