Abstract This article advances and tests an original theory of a “feminine homestyle” to explain how female legislators develop relationships with constituents that both mitigate the potential for gendered biases fulfill communal goals motivate women run political office. We use audit study legislator responsiveness direct email communication. show lawmakers are more responsive constituent comm...

During the Covid-19 pandemic, face-to-face meetings are restricted; therefore, communication technology such as video conferencing apps is essential for workers, including legislators. Using Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use Technology (UTAUT), this study examines acceptance factors on intention to use by legislators West Java Provincial House Representatives during COVID-19 pandemic. The re...

Economic inequality constitutes a defining challenge of our time and it remains puzzling why rising levels have not led to more redistribution. In this article novel individual-level perspective is taken, with focus on how much legislators citizens agree questions redistribution inequality, what causes these mismatches. The study compares legislators’ views representative citizen sample in Swit...

A core principle of policy advocacy is that to engage decision makers in the urgency, complexity, and controversy problems, advocates must effectively tell story those issues. Policy stories, or narratives, paint mental pictures what a problem is, who affected, how it came be. Yet, persuasive effects narratives on one key group, state legislators, remain understudied. Drawing from Narrative Fra...

I present a method for partitioning legislatures into subsets of legislators that vote in a similar fashion by modelling legislatures as Potts spin glasses. I apply the method to find partitions of the UK House of Commons and the US Senate. I explain how the method is related to methods designed to find partitions of networks into densely connected subsets of nodes.

Question I Develop a research design to evaluate the impact of an ongoing public program, policy, or institutional design; to compare the impact of program, policy, or institutional design alternatives; to examine cause (or causes) of policy or institutional choice by legislators, legislatures, bureaucrats, or bureaus; or to examine reasons for the differential implementation of policy by burea...