This article presents a continuous-time Bayesian model for analyzing durations of behavior displays in social interactions. Duration data of social interactions are often complex because of repeated behaviors (events) at individual or group (e.g. dyad) level, multiple behaviors (multistates),...

We investigate the influence of electoral rules and voter information in elections on voting outcomes and accountability of incumbent public officials, using new data on election of state court judges in 40 states in the U.S. from 1990 to 2010. We find, first, that voting is very partisan in...

This paper examines several hypotheses that have been proposed to explain the existence and growth of legislators' campaign "warchests". We examine the sources and political consequences of warchests in US House elections over the period of 1978-1998. Briefly, our findings are as follows. First,...