▪ Abstract This paper reviews a range of approaches to the analysis of government
termination, by any account a very important substantive concern for political science. One …

What determines the size and form of redistributive programs, the extent and type of public
goods provision, the burden of taxation across alternative tax bases, the size of government …

A new and wide-ranging empirical overview of party policy in 47 modern democracies,
including all of the new democracies of Eastern Europe. It updates and radically extends …

With the European Parliament comprising politicians from many different countries, cultures,
languages, national parties and institutional backgrounds, one might expect politics in the …

A rich array of institutional diversity makes the United States an excellent place to study the
relationship between political institutions and public policy outcomes. This essay has three …

This review of the theoretical literature on legislative and multilateral bargaining begins with
presentation of the seminal Baron-Ferejohn model. The review then encompasses the …

We present a theoretical model of a parliamentary democracy where electoral competition
inside coalition governments induces higher spending than under single party governments …

We examine the stability of individual ministers across parliamentary democracies. Our data
show that this stability is only loosely related to the stability of cabinets, making it impossible …

How do informal institutions influence the formation and function of formal institutions?
Existing typologies focus on the interaction of informal institutions with an established …

Understanding scientific phenomena in terms of complex systems principles is both
scientifically and pedagogically important. Situations from different disciplines of science are …