The COVID-19 pandemic presents an opportunity to refocus scholarly attention on the
politics of crisis. Crises that abruptly upend political and economic relations are important …

Many social scientists recognize that quantitative text analysis is a useful research
methodology, but its application is still concentrated in documents written in European …

Do elected representatives reflect the preferences of the citizens they represent? Recent
studies from the United States and a number of other democracies have found that …

We study France's 1995 ban on firm donations to politicians. We use a difference-in-
differences approach and a novel dataset combining the campaign manifestos issued by …

Do policy priorities that candidates emphasize during election campaigns predict their
subsequent legislative activities? We study this question by assembling novel data on …

Populist parties have gained significant power in European politics in the last decades,
raising concerns about the potentially contagious effect of populism. I study how populist …

Cognitively demanding electoral systems increase the chance that voters make their choices
based on politically irrelevant cues. To illustrate this argument, I analyze the effect of …

Politicians seeking to persuade voters may not always be able to say what they would like to
say. Adopting policy positions opposite to that of their party or contradicting their previous …

We develop a new framework to study legislative representation in list proportional
representation (PR) systems. Our model studies a legislator's incentives to balance the …

Facing hazards and migration from disasters, many cities might benefit from redistributive
policies to aid vulnerable residents, requiring changes to 'urban regimes'-the powerbrokers …