These essays explain why the difference between governments and national voting systems with a pr...

The second edition of Legislative Leviathan provides an incisive new look at the inner workings o...

This book offers a comparative perspective on how presidential democracies make public policy.

Do political institutions significantly influence policy outcomes? If so, how and why do they mak...

First published in 1987, Congress: Structure and Policy is a review of congressional research fro...

This book clarifies the debate about citizen competence in democratic politics.

Demonstrates that the majority party seizes agenda control at nearly every stage of the legislati...

This book offers a comparative perspective on how presidential democracies make public policy.

Why would sovereigns ever grant political or economic liberty to their subjects? Under what condi...

Demonstrates that the majority party seizes agenda control at nearly every stage of the legislati...

The second edition of Legislative Leviathan provides an incisive new look at the inner workings o...

Advances in the social sciences are used to uncover cognitive foundations of social decision making.