Committee seats are not always good
Legislative committees have substantial power over the legislative process. Most enjoy negative agenda control—meaning that they can prevent any bill…
Legislative committees have substantial power over the legislative process. Most enjoy negative agenda control—meaning that they can prevent any bill…
Americans have little trust in political institutions with one notable exception: the U.S. armed forces. In 2019, 73 percent of…
Can elected representatives control the decisions of unelected bureaucrats? In our forthcoming article, we argue that political competition can often…
A key feature of bureaucratic organizations is the use of vertical arrangements to enhance their performance. Namely, to rely on…
Over the past fifteen years, the US energy sector has been transformed by innovations in the extraction of natural gas…
Previous studies claim that politically irrelevant events influence voting behavior. For example, droughts, floods, tornadoes, shark attacks, and even college…
The credibility of scientific inquiry depends on researchers’ ability to replicate previous findings. However, publication biases that favor statistically significant…
Would a just society be more equal, economically? John Rawls’s theory of justice is famous for three principles that speak…
For decades, the literature on gender and legislative politics has explored the increasing female political representation (Geys and Mause 2014;…
On January 28, 2015, Brock Turner, a Stanford student athlete, sexually assaulted Chanel Miller, a visiting student. (Miller has expressed…