... from Liangyu Zhu, our dedicated research assistant. © 2018 P. A. Kirkland and J. H. Phillips 2018 P. A. Kirkland and J. H. Phillips Licensed re-use rights only Legislatures lawmaking state politics More than 50 years ago, Key (1964 , p. 688) famously claimed that, “Common...

... for the majority party in U.S. state legislatures. Furthermore, there appears to be a pronounced downstream majority-party disadvantage. To establish these findings, we propose a technique for aggregating the results of close elections to obtain as-if random variation in majority-party status. We argue...

.... The authors also thank Scott Adler, Keith Poole, David Rohde, and Jim Snyder for sharing data. © 2016 A. Fowler and A. B. Hall 2016 A. Fowler and A. B. Hall Licensed re-use rights only Elections political representation legislatures Previous work has shown that Democratic and Republican...

...) with the leader’s preferred position in the first place. © 2008 M. Iaryczower 2008 M. Iaryczower Licensed re-use rights only Party discipline legislatures leadership vote buying global games D72 D78 C72 The predominant view among scholars studying European and Latin American legislative...