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In recent years, election law has assumed a particularly prominent role in American political life. Election …-related litigation has sharply increased during the past decade, and the winner of a number of high-profile elections have been … determined following litigation, including, most prominently, the presidential election of 2000 and the gubernatorial election in …
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explain observed patterns of participation and voting in U.S. national elections. We propose a unified model of turnout and … voting in presidential and congressional elections with heterogeneous voters. We estimate the model using individual level …Understanding citizens' electoral behavior (e.g., selective abstention and split ticket voting), represents a …
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Asymmetric information between voters and legislative representatives poses a major challenge to the functioning of representative democracy. We examine whether representatives are more likely to serve long-term campaign donors instead of constituents during times of low media attention to...
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We examine whether representatives are more likely to serve long-term campaign donors instead of constituents during times of low media attention to politics. Based on 425 roll calls between 2005 and 2014 in the US House of Representatives, we show that representatives are more likely to vote...
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