This paper offers a clarification of positive theories of roll call voting in the form of a Mayhewian apologia, drawing on Mayhew's classic formulation of the electoral connection with a particular focus on its significance for our understanding of position taking, generally, and roll call...

This paper studies how politicians and voters respond to new information on the threats of climate change. Using data on the universe of federal disaster declarations between 1989 and 2014, we document that congress members from districts hit by a hurricane are more likely to support bills...

The 2018 congressional elections put Democrats back in control of the House of Representatives, and thus returned divided government to Washington, but the meaning of these results for U.S. trade policy remain enigmatic. On the one hand, effective trade policymaking requires either unified...