Research on work-family conflict has focused on individuals, and little is known as to how spouses perceive each other’s work-family conflict and how inaccuracies of such perceptions relate to relationship quality. Using a national sample of dual-earner married and cohabiting couples (N = 545), we found that over half of spouses overestimate or underestimate each other’s work-family conflict. H...

Until the middle of the twentieth century, the discipline of political science was primarily qualitative – philosophical, descriptive, legalistic, and typically reliant on case studies that failed to probe causation in any measurable way. The word " science " was not entirely apt. In the 1950s, the discipline was transformed by the behavioral revolution, spearheaded by advocates of a more socia...

Public choice ana lysis of voting predicts apathy and rational ignorance. Transactions cost analysis forms predictions on the basis of systematic responses to low-cost signals that serve to reduce decision-making costs. Public choice analysis is premised only on instrumental rationality; a transactions cost analysis includes analysis of intrinsic motivation, ie. analysis of 'consumption' benefi...

Solving the obesity crisis has less to do with post-partisanship and more to do with increasing public support for strong public policy initiatives that will make the healthy choice the easy choice. The government has an important role in mitigating the toxic food environment created by food manufacturers and restaurant chains. Progress to date has occurred on the state level. With greater publ...

This paper examines existence of Markov equilibria in a class of dynamic political games (or DPGs). DPGs are infinite horizon games in which political institutions are endogenously determined each period. Specifically, at each date t, a social choice rule determines both the current public policy and the social choice rule to be used in date t + 1. These rules are instrumental choices in the se...

The purpose of this paper is to sketch some of the implications, prospective and retrospective, of the primacy of method in the present study of politics and to do it by way of a contrast, which is deliberately heightened, but hopefully not caricatured, between the vocation of the “methodist”1 and the vocation of the theorist. My discussion will be centered around the kinds of activity involved...

Political knowledge is unevenly distributed, and those with the highest amounts are concentrated amongst the politically and socially advantaged. The socioeconomic heterogeneity within the Latino electorate in the United States exemplifies such a distribution. This paper analyzes how political information influences a Latino voter’s use of non-policy campaign messages for the 2000 presidential ...

The 2004 US Presidential Election cycle marked the debut of Internet-based media such as blogs and social networking websites as institutionally recognized features of the American political landscape. Particularly significant was the credentialing of selected blogs as officially designated media sources for purposes of covering the major political party conventions, an act which gave particula...

In any health care crisis, the first priority is to improve the patient’s condition. But this priority is not absolute as it is normally subject to the patient’s (or someone on her behalf) approval. This can sometimes lead to serious difficulties when the patient on epistemological (the patient may be ignorant or misinformed), political (the patient may have political objections to a particular...