This work looks at the policies aimed promoting female participation in local legislative bodies using a series of changes to electoral law Poland. Using an exogenous population threshold dividing municipalities into ones with proportional and majoritarian elections, we estimate effect system on representation. Moreover, use difference-in-discontinuities look introduction quota councils. Contra...

We develop several predictive models linking legislative sentiment to legislative text. Our models, which draw on ideas from ideal point estimation and topic models, predict voting patterns based on the contents of bills and infer the political leanings of legislators. With supervised topics, we provide an exploratory window into how the language of the law is correlated with political support....

Local Self-Government in Kazakhstan is at the initial stage of its development, since role and significance level requires due attention further implementation. The process has been continuing for 30 years, time being we cannot observe intended outcomes. We constantly inquired about development through introduction foreign experience many scientific public platforms statements high-ranking offi...

The literature on judicial selection systems has given considerable attention to the role that politicians and their parties – through their legislative roles – have played in the adoption and operation of these judicial selection systems. Less attention, however, has been given to both the effect that interest groups, broadly defined, have in the creation and implementation of judicial selecti...

Legislative websites are increasingly important in the practice of representation. Since adapting old practices to new technology entails uncertainty, the authors expect legislative offices to learn website representation practices from each other. Using data from the 2006 and 2007 official home pages of members of the U.S. House of Representatives, the authors find that web design practices re...

This paper studies legislative negotiations between two parties whose political power changes over time. The model has a unique subgame perfect equilibrium, which becomes very tractable when parties can make offers frequently. This tractability facilitates studying how changes in political power affect implemented policies. An extension of the baseline model analyses how elections influence leg...

This article provides an overview of the organization and legal regulation government activities in a pandemic. Based on analysis regulatory framework other open sources, author analyzes issues increasing authority responsibility event pandemic countries with different systems forms government. The aspects problems organizing regulating bodies emergency situations have been studied. He studies ...

Voting institutions commonly assign di®erent weights across voters. Most analyses of such systems assume that the relative in°uence of each player is non-linear in her voting weight. We reassess this assumption with a distributive bargaining game that closely resembles the closed-rule, in ̄nite-horizon Baron-Ferejohn (1989) model. In equilibrium, voters with lower weights are typically perfect s...