After the Wedding Party

Symbiosis Plasmids Bring Their Own Mutagen to the Wedding Party

Entering into a symbiotic relationship is not something to be taken lightly. Previously free-living organisms become beholden to each other and have to tolerate invasion of their personal space to accommodate varying degrees of intimacy, especially when one partner lives within the body or even the cells of the other. Symbiosis brings with it so many potential mutual benefits that it has arisen...

Outbreak of salmonellosis after a wedding party, Bavaria, Germany, summer 2010: the importance of implementing food safety concepts.

Multinational Cholera Outbreak after Wedding in the Dominican Republic

We conducted a case–control study of a cholera outbreak after a wedding in the Dominican Republic, January 22, 2011. Ill persons were more likely to report having consumed shrimp on ice (odds ratio 8.50) and ice cubes in beverages (odds ratio 3.62). Travelers to cholera affected areas should avoid consuming uncooked seafood and untreated water.

Party and Promotions After the Republican Revolution

We take advantage of a rare shift in institutional rules to provide unambiguous evidence of causal effects of party influence in Congress. After the 1994 Republican Revolution, the new majority party in the US House adopted rules that centralized committee assignments within the party leadership. We build a research design around this event to study how committee promotion affects party support...

Electoral Competition after Party Splits

While party splits are a relatively frequent phenomenon in many new and established democracies, the systematic empirical research on electoral competition after schisms is limited. The analysis of more than 200 splits across 25 European countries in the post-war period addresses this gap in the literature. The study shows that the vote share of rump and splinter parties in the first election a...