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...

This paper models the process through which proposals are placed on the ballot as initiatives. Importantly, proposals that reach the ballot were not enacted by the legislature. We show that this fact has important consequences for the type of policy proposals that reach the ballot: as the...

We extend existing estimators for duration data that suffer from non-random sample selection to allow for time-varying covariates. Rather than a continuous-time duration model, we propose a discrete-time alternative that models the effects of sample selection at the time of selection across all...

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...