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Volume 23, issue 4, 2011

The influence of strategic retirement on the incumbency advantage in US House elections pp. 431-447

Benjamin Highton

Representing collective reasons for group decisions: The judgment aggregation problem revisited pp. 448-462

Andrew Knops

Pre-election polling and sequential elections pp. 463-479

Patrick Hummel

Jobs in politicians’ backyards: Party leadership competition and patronage pp. 480-509

Ozge Kemahlioglu

Unravelling Bueno De Mesquita’s group decision model pp. 510-531

Jason B Scholz, Gregory J Calbert and Glen A Smith

The role of procedural commitment in informational theories of legislative organization pp. 532-558

Fang-Yi Chiou

Elinor Ostrom Prize pp. 559-560

John R. Wright

Erratum pp. 561-562

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Volume 23, issue 3, 2011

‘While there’s a breath in my body’: The systemic effects of politically motivated retirement from the Supreme Court pp. 293-316

Michael A Bailey and Albert Yoon

Competition, contest, and cooperation: The analytic framework of the issue market pp. 317-343

Simon T Franzmann

Constituency size and stability of two-party systems pp. 344-358

Arturas Rozenas

A welfarist critique of social choice theory pp. 359-381

Aki Lehtinen

Is there really a turnout paradox? pp. 382-399

Luis Fernando Medina

Domestic reform as a rationale for gradualism in international cooperation pp. 400-427

Johannes Urpelainen

Volume 23, issue 2, 2011

A model of non-informational preference change pp. 145-164

Franz Dietrich and Christian List

Paradox lost: Explaining and modeling seemingly random individual behavior in social dilemmas pp. 165-187

Joe Oppenheimer, Stephen Wendel and Norman Frohlich

Coordination dilemmas and the valuation of women in the U.S. Senate: Reconsidering the critical mass problem pp. 188-214

Kristin Kanthak and George A. Krause

The origins of social institutions pp. 215-240

Johannes Urpelainen

Majorities with a quorum pp. 241-259

Annick Laruelle and Federico Valenciano

On the buyability of voting bodies pp. 260-287

John Morgan and Felix Várdy

Corrigendum pp. 288-288

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Volume 23, issue 1, 2011

How presidents push, when presidents win: A model of positive presidential power in US lawmaking pp. 3-20

Matthew N. Beckmann and Vimal Kumar

Why primaries? The party’s tradeoff between policy and valence pp. 21-51

Gilles Serra

Seizing the mantle of change: Modeling candidate quality as effectiveness instead of valence pp. 52-68

Michael K Miller

Optimal counterterrorism and the recruitment effect of large terrorist attacks: A simple dynamic model pp. 69-86

Thomas Jensen

Are group sources always credible? An experimental study of sources, stakes and participation pp. 87-110

Christy Aroopala

Free-riding in international environmental agreements: A signaling approach to non-enforceable treaties pp. 111-134

Ana Espínola-Arredondo and Félix Muñoz-García

The finagle point and the epsilon-core: A comment on Bräuninger’s proof pp. 135-139

Craig A Tovey

Volume 22, issue 4, 2010

Transparency and Accountability: Empirical Results for Us States pp. 379-406

James E. Alt and Robert C. Lowry

Power Concentration and Interstate Conflict: Is There a Connection? pp. 407-429

James Lee Ray and Patrick Bentley

Ideology and Existence of 50%-Majority Equilibria in Multidimensional Spatial Voting Models pp. 431-444

Hervé Crès and M. Utku Ünver

Evaluating the Unfairness of Representation With the Nash Social Welfare Function pp. 445-467

Junichiro Wada

Volume 22, issue 3, 2010

Does ‘Civic Duty’ ‘Solve’ The Rational Choice Voter Turnout Puzzle? pp. 275-300

Robert Goldfarb and Lee Sigelman

Proportional Representation and Strategic Voters pp. 301-332

Arkadii Slinko and Shaun White

Electoral Competition When Some Candidates Lie and Others Pander pp. 333-358

Haifeng Huang

Power Sharing and Reform Capacity pp. 359-376

Johannes Lindvall

Volume 22, issue 2, 2010

Political Accountability Under Alternative Institutional Regimes pp. 139-167

Matthew C. Stephenson and Jide O. Nzelibe

Coups, Elections and the Predatory State pp. 169-215

Anjali Thomas Bohlken

Ambiguous Statutes and Judicial Deference To Federal Agencies pp. 217-245

John R. Wright

The Implications of High Court Docket Control for Resource Allocation and Legal Efficiency pp. 247-268

Tom S. Clark and Aaron B. Strauss

Erratum pp. 269-269

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Erratum pp. 271-271

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Volume 22, issue 1, 2010

Congratulations to Elinor Ostrom pp. 5-5

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The Effect of Initiatives on Local Government Spending pp. 6-25

David M. Primo

Adaptively Rational Retrospective Voting pp. 26-63

Jonathan Bendor, Sunil Kumar and David A. Siegel

Condorcet Consistency of Approval Voting: a Counter Example in Large Poisson Games pp. 64-84

Matias Nuñez

The Properties of Simple Vs. Absolute Majority Rule: Cases Where Absences and Abstentions Are Important pp. 85-122

Keith L. Dougherty and Julian Edward

A Theoretical Analysis of Income Tax Evasion, Optimal Auditing, and Credibility in Developing Countries pp. 123-133

Amitrajeet Batabyal and Hamid Beladi

Errata pp. 134-134

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Volume 21, issue 4, 2009

Nominations for Sale pp. 413-449

Silvia Console-Battilana and Kenneth A. Shepsle

The Puzzle of Weak Pocketbook Voting pp. 451-482

Robert Grafstein

Trust in the Balance pp. 483-507

Ivan Savic and Zachary C. Shirkey

Ballot Structure, Political Corruption, and the Performance of Proportional Representation pp. 509-541

Daniel W. Gingerich

Estimating the Effect of Nonseparable Preferences in Eu Treaty Negotiations pp. 543-569

Daniel Finke

Volume 21, issue 3, 2009

Matching Donors and Nonprofits pp. 283-309

Gina Yannitell Reinhardt

Successful and Failed Screening Mechanisms in the Two Gulf Wars pp. 311-342

Daniel Verdier

From Many, One pp. 343-364

Elizabeth Maggie Penn

Creation of Social Order in Ethnic Conflict pp. 365-394

Keisuke Nakao

Lotteries, Justice and Probability pp. 395-409

Peter Stone

Volume 21, issue 2, 2009

The Structure of Heresthetical Power pp. 139-159

Scott Moser, John W. Patty and Elizabeth Maggie Penn

Multiple Principals and Oversight of Bureaucratic Policy-Making pp. 161-186

Sean Gailmard

Exit, Voice, and Cooperation: Bargaining Power in International Organizations and Federal Systems pp. 187-211

Jonathan B. Slapin

Is the 50-State Strategy Optimal? pp. 213-236

Dan Kovenock and Brian Roberson

Information Acquisition, Ideology and Turnout: Theory and Evidence From Britain pp. 237-276

Valentino Larcinese

Volume 21, issue 1, 2009

A Simple Model of Legislator and News Media Interaction pp. 5-24

Brian J. Fogarty

Constitutions and Policy Comparisons pp. 25-61

David Hugh-Jones

Explaining the 1914 War in Europe pp. 63-95

Frank C. Zagare

Making Making Social Science Matter Matter To Us pp. 97-112

Robert Adcock

The Leader Rule pp. 113-136

Jean-François Laslier