Ideological proximity is not the sole determinant of electoral choices. Voters frequently select
candidates whose policy profiles do not exhibit the closest match with their own policy …

Can voters learn meaningful information about candidates from their electoral campaigns?
As with job market hiring, voters, like employers, cannot know the productivity of candidates …

A number of studies recently have investigated party position-taking in multilevel polities.
Given the attempts of federally organized parties to tailor their messages to their audiences …

How does competition for first (candidate) and second ballot (party-list) votes affect the
strategic positioning of parties in mixed-member proportional systems? We study this …

Conventional wisdom surrounding primary elections in the United States holds that primary
competition is a standout reason why classic predictions from formal models of elections …

The US defense budget is one of the few pieces of legislation that regularly passes the US
Congress, but current scholarship in American politics and US foreign policy struggle to …

The study of political communication largely tends to focus on the content of speech,
ignoring the speaker's tone of voice and body language. Given that the delivery plays an …

This project shades new light on an old puzzle in the study of comparative political
representation. Since Downs (1957), scholars of both American and comparative politics …

The study of elections has been a central concern for political science since the first half of
the last century. Indeed, voting represents a crucial moment in the life of a polity: it is when …