... are incentivized to cater to their primary electorate − shaping patterns of representation and policy outcomes in American politics. Corresponding author Daniel M. Butler daniel.butler@wustl.edu 07 08 2025 24 01 2026 08 02 2026 © 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited 2026 Emerald...

...Arjun Vishwanath Ranked choice voting (RCV) is an increasingly popular electoral institution that has been posited by reformers and media outlets to produce transformative effects on electoral outcomes and representation. However, there is little social scientific evidence available that evaluates...

... representation and compare the conditions under which a centralized minimum wage would reduce policy bias relative to a decentralized approach. We use a comprehensive dataset of US cities obtained from simplemaps, a commercial product that provides city-level demographic estimates — along with a host of other...

... 2019 J. N. Druckman and J. Valdes Licensed re-use rights only Private politics representation responsiveness policy-making state legislators interest groups The democratic ideal is that public policies reflect citizens’ preferences. This works most straightforwardly when elected...

... representation incumbency advantage Do democratic elections select for high-quality candidates who match the preferences of the electorate? Often, scholars and pundits suggest they do not, noting the electoral dominance of incumbents. In one forceful example, Fiorina (1977 , p. 72) argues...