Der Abbau von staatlicher Bürokratie stellt angesichts wachsender regulatorischer Anforderungen in praktisch allen Gesetzesbereichen - beispielsweise im Umweltrecht, im Sozial- und Arbeitsrecht und in der zivilgesellschaftlichen Beteiligung - eine Daueraufgabe dar. Eine gute Gesetzgebung mit...

How important are political parties in motivating and disciplining elected officials? Using a difference-in-discontinuity design, we study how shocks to incumbents're-election probabilities affect legislative behavior in a setting where parties fully control candidate selection. We find that...

Individual members of Congress can have different policy preferences from the party leadership or special interest groups (SIGs), and the latter two may pressure members to shift their positions. To study this tension, we develop and estimate a multi-stage election model that incorporates party...

This paper studies the effects on electoral competition of political parties relying on monetary donations and volunteer labor for their electioneering activities. It also examines whether a recorded decline in party activism increases special-interest influence on party policy platforms....

We study partisan differences in Americans' response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Political leaders and media outlets on the right and left have sent divergent messages about the severity of the crisis, which could impact the extent to which Republicans and Democrats engage in social distancing and...