In this blog post, political science fellow Mark P. Jones documents the widening ideological gap between members of the Democratic and Republican delegations in the Texas House of Representatives over the past four decades.
This article employs roll call vote data and Bayesian ideal point estimation to examine inter-party dynamics in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies between 1989 and 2007.
Mark P. Jones, Wonjae Hwang, Juan Pablo MicozziApril 1, 2009
This article attempts to explain the so-called turn to the left of several Latin American political systems. There are several "lefts" involved based upon their ideological definitions and their different sociopolitical origins.
The political institutions that established Venezuela's democracy in the 1960s were deliberately set up to generate a cooperative equilibrium with low stakes of power. The recent political reforms, increasing the stakes of power, have stimulated a complete breakdown in cooperation and a highly polarized political system.
