Legislators Commit to Bipartisan Support of Alzheimer’s Funding

Predictors of Canadian legislators' support for public health policy interventions.

TO COMMIT or NOT TO COMMIT ?

Partisan and Bipartisan Gerrymandering∗

This paper analyzes the optimal partisan and bipartisan gerrymandering policies in a model with electoral competitions in policy positions and transfer promises. With complete freedom in redistricting, partisan gerrymandering policy generates the most one-sidedly biased district profile, while bipartisan gerrymandering generates the most polarized district profile. In contrast, with limited fre...

Legislators' Patterns of Cooperation

This study attempts to identify the patterns of cooperation between legislators. We argue that if legislators decide to cooperate, they prefer to do so first with their colleagues who share similar affiliations and then across affiliations. In order to examine this hypothesis, we devised a unique cooperation scale and tested it using a sample of the private member bills that were initiated in t...

Bipartisan Genetic Research Privacy Protection Act Introduced.

On April 5, 2016, United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Mike Enzi (R-WY) introduced the bipartisan Genetic Research Privacy Protection Act. This Act aims to enhance and expand privacy protections for those involved in biomedical research. At the present time, there is a great deal of interest in sharing genetic information in the course of research and that interest will only incre...