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Hidden Majoritarianism and Women’s Career Progression in Proportional Representation Systems Open

Daniel M. Smith, Alexandra Cirone, Dawn Langan Teele, Gary W. Cox, Jon H. Fiva · 2025

The share of women in politics is higher, on average, under closed-list proportional representation (PR) electoral systems compared to majoritarian systems. Yet, even in PR systems, progress toward gender parity has been slow and uneven. W…

<span>Maintaining Empire: The Examination System and Secessionist Conflict in Imperial China</span> Open

Gary W. Cox, Mark Dincecco, Yuhua Wang · 2025

Electoral Institutions and Political Competition: Coordination, Persuasion, and Mobilization Open

Gary W. Cox · 2024

How does changing the rules of electoral competition change parties’ and candidates’ strategies? This chapter considers three kinds of rule changes—those that increase the effective number of votes per voter, the effective number of seats …

Bound by Borders: Voter Mobilization Through Social Networks Open

Gary W. Cox, Jon H. Fiva, Max-Emil M. King · 2024

A vast and growing quantitative literature considers how social networks shape political mobilization but the degree to which turnout decisions are strategic remains ambiguous. Unlike previous studies, we establish personal links between v…

Window of Opportunity: War and the Origins of Parliament Open

Gary W. Cox, Mark Dincecco, Massimiliano Gaetano Onorato · 2023

Two important puzzles characterize the development of pre-modern Eurasian polities. First, most rulers convened councils of nobles, but only European monarchs expanded them to create parliaments. Second, war was common throughout Eurasia, …

Bound by Borders: Voter Mobilization Through Social Networks Open

Gary W. Cox, Jon H. Fiva, Max-Emil M. King · 2023

Gender Gaps in Political Seniority Systems Open

Alexandra Cirone, Gary W. Cox, Jon H. Fiva, Daniel M. Smith, Dawn Langan Teele · 2023

Cybersecurity: Prevent, Detect, Respond Open

R Brannon Claytor, Mark D Epstein, Gary W. Cox · 2022

Replication Data for: The Political Economy of Suffrage Reform: The Great Reform Act of 1832 Open

Adriane Fresh, Gary W. Cox, Sebastián M. Saiegh · 2022

We argue that the Great Reform Act’s suffrage provisions were part of a broader effort to constrain the executive, thereby enabling an expansion in the state’s repressive capacity. When they came to power, the Whigs first increased parliam…

Replication Data for "The Political Economy of Suffrage Reform: The Great Reform Act of 1832" Open

Adriane Fresh, Gary W. Cox, Sabestian Saiegh · 2022

This set of files replicates the tables and figures in the paper "The Political Economy of Suffrage Reform: The Great Reform Act of 1832."

How Much is Majority Status in the U.S. Congress Worth? — CORRIGENDUM Open

Gary W. Cox, Eric Magar · 2022

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Replication Data for: Comparing ‘responsible party government’ in the US and the UK Open

Gary W. Cox · 2022

Responsible parties are conventionally defined as those capable of announcing their legislative goals and then passing them on the strength of their own members’ votes. In this paper, I consider why UK majority parties have closely approxi…

Party and Policy in Lineland: A Theory of Conditional Party Cartels Open

John H. Aldrich, Gary W. Cox, Mathew D. McCubbins, David W. Rohde · 2022

Moral hazard in electoral teams: List rank and campaign effort Open

Gary W. Cox, Jon H. Fiva, Daniel M. Smith, Rune J. Sørensen · 2021

How do parties motivate candidates to exert effort in closed-list elections, where seat outcomes are uncertain only for candidates in marginal list positions? We argue that parties can solve this moral hazard problem by committing ex ante …

Replication Data for: Non-unitary parties, government formation and Gamson's Law Open

Gary W. Cox · 2021

Following the coalition literature highlighting intra-party politics (e.g., Laver 1999; Strøm 2003; Gianetti and Benoit 2009), I address the well-known “portfolio allocation paradox” (Warwick and Druckman 2006) by introducing a new model o…

Replication Data for: Non-unitary parties, government formation and Gamson's Law Open

Gary W. Cox · 2021

Replication data for "Non-unitary parties, goverment formation and Gamson's Law"

Warfare, Fiscal Gridlock, and State Formation during Europe’s Military Revolution Open

Mark Dincecco, Gary W. Cox, Massimiliano Gaetano Onorato · 2021

Replication Data for: Seniority-based Nominations and Political Careers Open