type="main" <title type="main">Objectives</title> <p>We investigate whether American Indian legislation is prevalent in state legislative agendas. </section> <title type="main">Methods</title> <p>We examine proposed and passed legislation in states for the years 1998–2007. </section> <title type="main">Results</title> <p>Our findings suggest that states with legislative and executive institutions that...</p></p></p>

type="main" <title type="main">Objective</title> <p>This article studies the effect of initiative signature-gathering campaigns on political participation within a state. </section> <title type="main">Methods</title> <p>Using data on signatures gathered for eight initiatives and four different elections, we conduct grouped logit regression to test whether counties...</p></p>

Important conceptualizations of both interest groups and bureaucratic agencies suggest that these institutions provide legislatures with greater information for use in policy-making. Yet little is known about how these information sources interact in the policy process as a whole. In this paper...

Regional trade in South America since independence has long been much smaller than would be expected if geography were the only constraint on trade. Several potential explanations exist: low technological and demand complementarities; low productivity; high barriers to trade. We first argue that...

Bimetallism disappeared as a monetary regime in the 1870s. Flandreau (1996) clearly demonstrates that French bimetallism would have been able to withstand the German de-monetization of silver. Could it have withstood if many other countries in the world moved to the gold standard following in...