This project evaluates whether television advertising and the changing electoral climate brought about by Republican Party of Minnesota v. White (2002) have had detrimental effects on voting in state supreme court elections. Almost universally, judicial elections - particularly expensive...

This research examines the process and pattern of party system development and stabilization in Poland from 1991 to 2007. The goal is to establish which, if any, aspects of the party system were effectively consolidated during this period, which were not, and what aspects of the broader...

Interest groups provide an opportunity for citizen interests to be represented before the Supreme Court. In recent decades, numerous religious advocacy organizations have formed, seeking to influence the Court. Among these groups, advocacy organizations connected to religious denominations have...

To whom should parties redistribute clientelistic goods? Should they target core voters that are physically proximate to the parties' networks or should they target off-the-network voters in an effort to expand their constituency and sway new voters? In this paper we take on one of the ost...

Many have worried about recent changes in judicial campaigns in terms of increased costs and acrimonious rhetoric. Some scholars have concerns that the Supreme Court’s Republican Party of Minnesota v. White further changed the nature of judicial campaigns, allowing candidates to take positions...

Theories of parties and lawmaking typically require measures of legislators' preferences for empirical analysis. However, existing methods for generating estimates of these preferences presume that legislators care only about their own policy preferences and not about their constituency or party...