This paper is an update (through 2008) and expansion (to a medium-size city newspaper and to other than the front page) of Sigelman and Bullock's look at campaign coverage in the newspaper, radio, tv, and now online eras (APQ, 1991). The focus is on relative amounts of attention given to...

Party networks scholars have argued that parties, in the form of expanded party networks, have played an increasingly central role in presidential nominations in the last several elections. Yet we do not yet know what consequences, if any, this electoral development has for governing. In this...

In recent years, presidents have claimed to have expansive authority over the deployment of troops and the use of force, and Congress has largely acquiesced to those claims. But it is not clear from existing research exactly how that congressional deference evolved. Previous research has found...