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2023
The Electoral Costs and Benefits of Feminism in Contemporary American PoliticsMarzia Oceno; Nicholas A. Valentino; Carly Wayne (2023)
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Measuring Congressional Partisanship and Its ConsequencesJeremy Gelman; Steven Lloyd Wilson (2022)
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Natural Disasters, 'Partisan Retrospection,' and U.S. Presidential ElectionsBoris Heersink; Jeffery Jenkins; Michael Olson; Brenton Peterson (2022)
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Out‐of‐District Donors and Representation in the US HouseBrandice Canes-Wrone; Kenneth Miller (2022)
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Partisan Media Effects Beyond One-Shot Experimental DesignsJoshua Darr; Kathleen Searles; Brian Watson; Raymond Pingree; Nathan Kalmoe; Mingxiao Sui (2022)
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Sensitive Questions, Spillover Effects, and Asking About Citizenship on the U.S. CensusMatthew A Baum; Bryce Dietrich; Rebecca Goldstein; Maya Sen (2022)
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Strategic Government Communication About PerformanceJustin de Benedictis Kessner (2022)
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2021
Activating Animus: The Uniquely Social Roots of Trump SupportLilliana Mason; Julie Wronski; John V. Kane (2021)
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American Politics in Two Dimensions: Partisan and Ideological Identities Versus Anti-Establishment OrientationsJoseph E. Uscinski; *Adam Enders; Michelle I. Seelig; Casey A. Klofstad; John Funchion; Caleb Everett; Stephan Wuchty; Kamal Premaratne; Manohar N. Murthi (2021)
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Archived Attributes: An Internet-text Approach to Measuring Legislator Attitudes and BehaviorEmily Kalah Gade; Sarah Dreier; John Wilkerson; Anne Washington (2021)
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Are Republicans Bad for the Environment?Luke Fowler; Jaclyn Kettler (2021)
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Citizen Forecasting 2020: A State-by-State ExperimentAndreas Murr; Michael S. Lewis-Beck (2021)
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City Limits to Partisan Polarization in the American PublicWilliam Marble; Amalie Jensen; Kenneth Scheve; Matthew J. Slaughter (2021)
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Divided Government, Delegation, and Civil Service ReformElliott Ash; Massimo Morelli; Matia Vannoni (2021)
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Family Matters: How Immigrant Histories Can Promote InclusionAdeline Lo; Scott Williamson; Claire Adida; Melina Platas; Lauren Prather; Seth Werfel (2021)
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Fundamentals Matter: Forecasting the 2020 Democratic Presidential NominationAndrew Dowdle; Randall Adkins; Karen Sebold; Wayne Steger (2021)
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Interjurisdictional Competition and Policy Preferences of the PublicDeven Carlson; Byron Carlson; Elizabeth Bell (2021)
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Legislative Transparency and Credit Risk*Jeffrey J. Harden; Justin H. Kirkland; Patrick E. Shea (2021)
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Longevity Returns to Political OfficeSebastian Barfort; Robert Klemmensen; *Erik Gahner Larsen (2021)
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Party Competition and Policy LiberalismZachary Baumann; Michael Nelson; Markus Neumann (2021)
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Policy Diffusion: The Issue-Definition StageFabrizio Gilardi; Charles R. Shipan; Bruno Wüest (2021)
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Reconciling Candidate Extremism and Spatial VotingBenjamin Highton; Walter J. Stone (2021)
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State-Level Forecasts for the 2020 US Presidential Election: Tough Victory Ahead for BidenBruno Jerome; Veronique Jerome; Philippe Mongrain; Richard Nadeau (2021)
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Supply Chain Linkages and the Extended Carbon CoalitionIain Osgood; Jared Cory; Michael Lerner (2021)
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The Trump Effect: An Experimental Investigation of the Emboldening Effect of Racially Inflammatory Elite CommunicationBenjamin Newman; Jennifer L. Merolla; Sono Shah; Danielle Casarez Lemi; Loren Collingwood; S. Karthick Ramakrishnan (2021)
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The White Working Class and the 2016 ElectionNicholas Carnes; Noam Lupu (2021)
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Why Local Party Leaders Don't Support Nominating Centrists*David Broockman; Nicholas Carnes; Melody Crowder-Meyer; Chris Skovron (2021)
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Circumventing Legislative Committees: The U.S. SenateNicholas O. Howard; Mark E. Owens (2020)
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Diversity in Party Leadership in State LegislaturesEric Hansen; Christopher J. Clark (2020)
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Does the @realDonaldTrump Really Matter to Financial Markets?Allyson L. Benton; Andrew Q. Philips (2020)
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Economic Segregation and Unequal Policy ResponsivenessWilliam Franko; Patrick Flavin (2020)
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Effectiveness of Connected LegislatorsMarco Battaglini; Valerio Leone Sciabolazza; Eleonora Patacchini (2020)
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Gender Differences in Legislator ResponsivenessDanielle Thomsen; Bailey Sanders (2020)
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Strategic Candidate Entry and Congressional Elections in the Era of Fox NewsKevin Arceneaux; Johanna Dunaway; Martin Johnson; Ryan Vander Wielen (2020)
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The Dynamic American DreamJennifer Wolak; David A.M. Peterson (2020)
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The Dynamics of Racial Resentment Across the 50 U.S. StatesRebecca Kreitzer; Candis Watts Smith; Feiya Suo (2020)
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"I'm Not the President of Black America": Rhetorical Versus Policy RepresentationPavielle E. Haines; Tali Mendelberg; Bennett Butler (2019)
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Adversaries or Allies? Donald Trump's Republican Support in CongressJordan Ragusa; Karyn Amira; Lauren Johnson; Deon McCray (2019)
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Conservatism in the Era of TrumpMichael Barber; Jeremy C. Pope (2019)
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Constituent Communication Through Telephone Town HallsClaire Abernathy; Kevin M. Esterling; Justin Freebourn; Ryan Kennedy; William Minozzi; Michael A. Neblo; Jonathan A. Solis (2019)
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Dividing the Pie: Parties, Institutional Limits, and State Budget TradeoffsJinhai Yu; Edward T. Jennings, Jr. ; J.S. Butler (2019)
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Effects of the Great Recession on American Attitudes Toward TradeEdward D. Mansfield; Diana C. Mutz; Devon Brackbill (2019)
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Federalism and the Racialization of Welfare PolicyChristopher Ojeda; Michael Berkman; Ann Whitesell; Eric Plutzer (2019)
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Federalism, Government Liberalism and Union Weakness in America*David Darmofal; Nathan J. Kelly; Christopher Witko; Sarah Young (2019)
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Geography, Uncertainty, and PolarizationNolan McCarty; Jonathan Rodden; *Boris Shor; Chris Tausanovitch; *Christopher Warshaw (2019)
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Legislative Constraints on Executive Unilateralism in Separation of Powers SystemsMichael Barber; Alexander Bolton; Sharece Thrower (2019)
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Legislators As LobbyistsMelinda N. Ritchie; Hye Young You (2019)
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Mass Shootings and Public Support for Gun ControlBenjamin J. Newman; Todd K. Hartman (2019)
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Measuring Elite Personality Using SpeechAdam Ramey; Jonathan Klingler; Gary Hollibaugh (2019)
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Searching for Bright Lines in the Trump PresidencyJohn Carey; Gretchen Helmke; *Brendan Nyhan; Mitchell Sanders; Susan Stokes (2019)
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The Hillary Hypotheses: Testing Candidate Views of LossStephen Quinlan; Michael Lewis-Beck (2019)
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The Informational Theory of Legislative Committees: An Experimental AnalysisMarco Battaglini; Ernest K. Lai; Wooyoung Lim; Joseph Tao-yi Wang (2019)
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The Partisan Ties of Lobbying FirmsAlexander Furnas; Michael Heaney; Timothy LaPira (2019)
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Towards a New Measure of State-level LGBT Interest Group StrengthDonald Haider-Markel; Jami K. Taylor; Benjamin Rogers (2019)
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Bias in Perceptions of Public Opinion Among American Political ElitesChristopher Skovron; David E. Broockman (2018)
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Coalitional Instability and the Three-Fifths CompromiseKeith Dougherty; Gordon Ballingrud (2018)
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Disrupting Regulation, Regulating Disruption: The Politics of Uber in the United StatesRuth Berins Collier; V.B. Dubal; Christopher Carter (2018)
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Legislative Staff and Representation in CongressAlexander Hertel-Fernandez; Matto Mildenberger; Leah Stokes (2018)
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Presidential Particularism and U.S. Trade PoliticsKenneth S. Lowande; Jeffery A. Jenkins; Andrew J. Clarke (2018)
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Women's Issues and Their Fates in the United States CongressAlan E. Wiseman; Craig Volden; Dana E. Wittmer (2018)
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A Squire Index UpdatePeverill Squire (2017)
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Gender Equality Mood Across States and Over TimeJulianna Koch; Danielle Thomsen (2017)
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Gone with the Wind: Federalism and the Strategic Location of Air PollutersJames E. Monogan III; David M. Konisky; Neal D. Woods (2017)
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Lobbying Across Venues: An Issue-Tracing ApproachCharlotte Jourdain; Simon Hug; Frederic Varone (2017)
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Spatial Models of Legislative EffectivenessMatthew P. Hitt; Craig Volden; Alan E. Wiseman (2017)
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Distributive Politics and Legislator IdeologyDan Alexander; Christopher R. Berry; William G. Howell (2016)
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Legislative Capacity and Executive UnilateralismAlexander Bolton; Sharece Thrower (2016)
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Party Competition and Conflict in State LegislaturesKelsey L. Hinchliffe; Frances E. Lee (2016)
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The Influence of News Media on Political Elites: Investigating Strategic Responsiveness in CongressKevin Arceneaux; Martin Johnson; Rene Lindstadt; Ryan J. Vander Wielen (2016)
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Tracing the Flow of Policy Ideas in Legislatures: A Text Reuse ApproachJohn Wilkerson; David Smith; Nicholas Stramp (2015)
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A Primary Cause of Partisanship? Nomination Systems and Legislator IdeologyEric McGhee; Seth Masket; *Boris Shor; Steven Rogers; Nolan McCarty (2014)
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Accuracy of Combined Forecasts for the 2012 Presidential Election: The PollyVoteAndreas Graefe; J. Scott Armstrong; Randall J. Jones, Jr.; Alfred G. Cuzan (2014)
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Influencing the Bureaucracy: The Irony of Congressional OversightJoshua Clinton; David E. Lewis; Jennifer L. Selin (2014)
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Presidents and PatronageGary Hollibaugh; Gabriel Horton; David Lewis (2014)
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Representation in Municipal GovernmentChris Warshaw; Chris Tausanovitch (2014)
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The Elusive Search for Presidential PowerLawrence Rothenberg; Fang-Yi Chiou (2014)
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Political Homophily and Collaboration in Regional Planning NetworksElisabeth R. Gerber; Adam Douglas Henry; Mark Lubell (2013)
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When Are Women More Effective Lawmakers Than Men?Craig Volden; Alan E. Wiseman; Dana E. Wittmer (2013)
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The Keys to Legislative Success in the U.S. House of RepresentativesWilliam Anderson; Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier; Valeria N. Sinclair (2011)
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Income, Preferences, and the Dynamics of Policy ResponsivenessJoseph Daniel Ura; Christopher R. Ellis (2008)
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U.S. State and Local Public Policies in 2006: A New DatabaseJason Sorens; Fait Muedini; William Ruger (2008)
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The Most Liberal Senator: Analyzing and Interpreting Congressional Roll CallsJoshua D. Clinton; Simon Jackman; Doug Rivers (2004)
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The Strategic Timing of Position Taking in Congress: A Study of the North American Free Trade AgreementJanet M. Box-Steffensmeier; Laura W. Arnold; Christopher J.W. Zorn (1997)
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