Do ballot access laws have a significant affect on aggregate levels of voter turnout in American states? This research tests the impact of ballot access laws on state-level voter turnout. It is theorized that the more difficult it is for third parties to gain access to the ballot, the more...

Most analyses of congressional voting, whether theoretical or empirical, treat all roll call votes in the same way. We argue that such approaches mask considerable variation in voting behavior across different categories of votes. An examination of all recorded roll call votes in the U.S. House...

We examine the impact of a candidate's gender on electoral success in the primary and general elections, while controlling for other factors that may influence a candidate's success such as political experience, quality of the challenging candidates, and district-level demographics. The...