We develop a theory of candidate nomination processes predicated upon the notion that members of the majority party in a legislature collaboratively influence policy. Because of this team aspect, a candidate’s party label matters for voters, in addition to his own policy positions: For example, in a liberal district, electing even a liberal Republican may be unattractive for voters because it i...

This paper presents a dynamic model of legislative bargaining with an evolving default policy. We show that even with a fixed proposer proposal power is limited in equilibrium. Moreover, legislators have induced preferences over the distribution of benefits. We then apply the model to entitlement policies and models of public good production. Our results provide an explanation for the "ratchet ...

New legislative documents are published everyday in the Internet, comprising changes in the legislation: laws, decisions, resolutions, etc. Lexisla intends to offer access to this information through a single search application which crawls, analyses and segments the daily published legislative documents.

Setting the context The history of cannabis has been the subject of numerous books in recent years (see Fankhauser, this monograph). One of the many historical perspectives that have been explored is cannabis's social, political and legislative history. This chapter provides a brief history of controls on cannabis, and analyses a series of recent government enquiries that have informed legislat...

PURPOSE This study examined the formation of state government policies concerning persons with dementia. In particular, we identified variables associated with the passage of pertinent state laws by testing three theoretical models of policy formation: the iron triangle, the policy system, and an integrated model. METHODS We sampled 44 states and counted the number of laws concerning individu...

Despite the huge number of possible seat distributions following a general election in a multiparty parliamentary democracy, there are far fewer classes of seat distribution sharing important strategic features. We define an exclusive and exhaustive partition of the universe of theoretically-possible n-party systems into five basic classes, the understanding of which facilitates more fruitful m...