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Political Science

D-Index
21
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3222
World Ranking
1901
National Ranking
951

Best Publications

  • Leadership and Pandering: A Theory of Executive Policymaking

    Brandice Canes-Wrone;Michael C. Herron;Kenneth W. Shotts

  • The Butterfly Did It: The Aberrant Vote for Buchanan in Palm Beach County, Florida

    Jonathan N. Wand;Kenneth W. Shotts;Jasjeet S. Sekhon;Walter R. Mebane

  • Recycling the Garbage Can: An Assessment of the Research Program

    Jonathan Bendor;Terry M. Moe;Kenneth W. Shotts

  • The Conditional Nature of Presidential Responsiveness to Public Opinion

    Brandice Canes-Wrone;Kenneth W. Shotts

  • Delegates or Trustees? A Theory of Political Accountability

    Justin Fox;Kenneth W. Shotts

  • The Effect of Majority-Minority Mandates on Partisan Gerrymandering

    Kenneth W. Shotts

  • Does informative media commentary reduce politicians' incentives to pander?

    Scott Ashworth;Kenneth W. Shotts

  • Gerrymandering, Legislative Composition, and National Policy Outcomes

    Kenneth W. Shotts

  • Competitive Policy Development

    Alexander V. Hirsch;Kenneth W. Shotts

  • Does Racial Redistricting Cause Conservative Policy Outcomes? Policy Preferences of Southern Representatives in the 1980s and 1990s

    Kenneth W. Shotts

  • Using Ecological Inference Point Estimates as Dependent Variables in Second‐Stage Linear Regressions

    Michael C. Herron;Kenneth W. Shotts

  • A Signaling Model of Repeated Elections

    Kenneth W. Shotts

  • Pivots versus signals in elections

    Adam Meirowitz;Kenneth W. Shotts

  • Policy-Specific Information and Informal Agenda Power

    Alexander V. Hirsch;Kenneth W. Shotts

  • A Consensus on Second Stage Analyses in Ecological Inference Models

    Christopher Adolph;Gary King;Michael C. Herron;Kenneth W. Shotts

  • When Do Elections Encourage Ideological Rigidity

    Brandice Canes-Wrone;Kenneth W. Shotts

  • The Politics of Investigations and Regulatory Enforcement by Independent Agents and Cabinet Appointees

    Kenneth W. Shotts;Alan E. Wiseman

  • Term Limits and Pork

    Michael C. Herron;Kenneth W. Shotts

  • Law and Data: The Butterfly Ballot Episode

    Henry E. Brady;Michael C. Herron;Walter R. Mebane;Jasjeet Singh Sekhon

  • Policy-Development Monopolies: Adverse Consequences and Institutional Responses

    Alexander V. Hirsch;Kenneth W. Shotts

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