2005 PAPERS

• 2005-W18 (15 December 2005) Iain McLean How local government should be funded.

• 2005-W17 (12 December 2005) Iain McLean Barnett and the West Lothian Question: no nearer to solutions than when the Devolution Programme started .

• 2005-W16 (11 October 2005) Mark Andreas Kayser and Christopher Wlezien Performance Pressure: Patterns of Partisanship and the Economic Vote .

• 2005-W15 (31 August 2005) Robert S. Erikson and Christopher Wlezien Are Political Markets Really Superior to Polls as Election Predictors?.

• 2005-W14 (10 July 2005) Iain McLean Adam Smith and the modern Left.

• 2005-W13 (10 July 2005) Jane Green Consensual Politics. Partisan preferences and valence voting.

• 2005-W12 (23 June 2005) Christopher Wlezien and Pippa Norris "Whether the campaign mattered and how," published in Parliamentary Affairs (2005) vol. 58: pp. 871-888; and as part of Pippa Norris and Christopher Wlezien, eds. (2005), Britain Votes, Oxford University Press.

• 2005-W11 (17 June 2005) Iain McLean and Jennifer Nou "Why Should We Be Beggars with the Ballot in Our Hand? Veto Players and the Failure of Land Value Taxation in the UK 1909-1914." Published in the British Journal of Political Science 36(4), Oct2006, pp. 575-91.

• 2005-W10 (20 May 2005) Natalia Letki Does Diversity Erode Social Cohesion? Social Capital and Race in British Neighbourhoods . [Revised January 2007. Forthcoming in the Political Studies]

• 2005-W9 (12 April 2005) Iain McLean The English Regions after Regionalism.

• 2005-W8 (12 April 2005) Luke Keele Dynamic Models for Dynamic Theories: The Ins and Outs of Lagged Dependent Variables.

• 2005-W7 (12 April 2005) Luke Keele Not Just for Cointegration: Error Correction Models with Stationary Data.

• 2005-W6 (12 April 2005) Luke Keele Difficult Choices: An Evaluation of Heterogenous Choice Models.

• 2005-W5 (12 April 2005) Luke Keele Institutional Effects on the Presidential Nominating Process, 1976-2004.

• 2005-W4 (12 April 2005) Luke Keele Social Capital, Government Performance, and the Dynamics of Trust in Government.

• 2005-W3 (24 March 2005) Margit Tavits Causes of Corruption: Testing Competing Hypotheses.

• 2005-W2 (9 February 2005) Erik Eyster and Thomas Kittsteiner Party Platforms in Electoral competition with Many Constituencies.

• 2005-W1 (24 January 2005) Christopher Wlezien and Robert S. Erikson The Horse Race: What Polls Reveal as the Election Campaign Unfolds, forthcoming in International Journal of Public Opinion Research [Revised 13 October 2005].

2004 PAPERS

• 2004-W15 (21 December 2004) David Miller Immigrants, Nations, and Citizenship . It has been published by Journal of Political Philosophy and it’s available online at http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1467-9760.2007.00295.x

• 2004-W14 (1 December 2004) Sarah Butt How Voters Evaluate Party Competence: A Comparison Between Parties In and Out of Power.

• 2004-W13 (30 October 2004) Mark Andreas Kayser Trade and the Timing of Elections.

• 2004-W12 (12 July 2004) Matthew Ladner and Christopher Wlezien Partisan Preferences, Electoral Prospects, and Economic Expectations [Revised 25 October 2005]. Forthcoming in Comparative Political Studies .

• 2004-W11 (5 July 2004) Iain McLean and Neil Shephard A Program to Implement the Condorcet and Borda Rules in a Small-n Election.

• 2004-W10 (14 June 2004) Stuart N. Soroka and Christopher Wlezien Opinion Representation and Policy Feedback: Canada in Comparative Perspective, published in the Canadian Journal of Political Science 37, pp. 531-559.

• 2004-W9 (9 June 2004) Geoffrey Evans and Robert Andersen The Political Conditioning of Economic Perceptions: Evidence from the 1992-97 British Electoral Cycle.

• 2004-W8 (6 June 2004) Iain McLean The Dimensionality of Party Ideologies.

• 2004-W7 (6 June 2004) Iain McLean Land Tax: Options for Reform.

• 2004-W6 (2 May 2004) Jose Fernandez-Albertos and Victor Lapuente Gine When Veto Players Do Not Agree or Why Democratizing the EU Might Not Be a Good Thing .

• 2004-W5 (10 April 2004) Stuart S. Soroka and Christopher Wlezien Public Expenditure in the UK: How Measures Matter, forthcoming in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A.

• 2004-W4 (6 March 2004) Berthold Rittberger The Politics of Democratic Legitimation in the European Union.

• 2004-W3 (9 January 2004) Roger Sewell, David MacKay and Iain McLean Probabilistic Electoral Methods, Representative Probability, and Maximum Entropy.

• 2004-W2 (9 January 2004) Iain McLean, Christopher Wlezien and Gavin Cameron Where Did All the Money Go? Measuring Public Expenditure in the English Regions.

• 2004-W1 (9 January 2004) Gavin Cameron, Iain McLean, and Christopher Wlezien, "Public Expenditure in the English Regions: Measurement Problems and (Partial) Solutions", published in The Political Quarterly 75, pp. 121-131, 2004

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2003 PAPERS

• 2003-W1 (1 January 2003) Laurence Whitehead On Cuban Political Exceptionalism.

• 2003-W2 (21 January 2003) Natalia Letki, "Socialization for Participation? Trust, Membership and Democratization in East-Central Europe", published in Political Research Quarterly 57, pp. 665-679, 2004.

• 2003-W3 (22 January 2003) Mark Andreas Kayser, "Who Surfs, Who Manipulates? The Determinants of Opportunistic Election Timing and Electorally Motivated Economic Intervention." published in the American Political Science Review 99(1): 17-27, 2005.

• 2003-W4 (18 March 2003) Iain McLean and Arthur Spirling None of the Above: The UK House of Commons Votes on Reorming the House of Lords. Updated version with Meg Russell published in The Political Quarterly 74, pp. 298-310, 2003.

• 2003-W5 (18 March 2003) Iain McLean Analytical Narratives and Social Choice Theory in EU Research.

• 2003-W6 (18 March 2003) Iain McLean The Reasonableness of Independence: A Conversation from Condorcet and Borda to the present day . Revised version submitted May 2007

• 2003-W7 (30 April 2003) Christopher Wlezien and Robert S. Erikson The Evolution of Electoral Preferences: What the Polls Reveal as the Campaign Unfolds.

• 2003-W8 (7 May 2003) Christian List What is Special about the Proportion? A Research Report on Special Majority Voting and the Classical Condorcet Jury Theorem.

• 2003-W9 (3 June 2003) Iain McLean and Arthur Spirling UK OC OK? A Note on Interpreting Optimal Classification Scoring for the United Kingdom. [Revised 27 February 2006]

• 2003-W10 (14 June 2003) Christopher Wlezien, "On the Salience of Political Issues: The Problem with "Most Important Problem." Published in Electoral Studies (2005) 24(4): 555-579.

• 2003-W11 (25 June 2003) Arthur Spirling "Cabinet Assembly for Beginners. A Model of Moral Hazard, Observability and Risk Sharing in Cabinet Organisation". Please contact the author at spln [at] mail [dot] rochester [dot] edu.

• 2003-W12 (30 June 2003) David Levi-Faur Comparative Research Designs in the Study of Regulation: How to Increase the Number of Cases without Compromising the Strengths of Case-Oriented Analysis .

• 2003-W13 (7 July 2003) Natalia Letki, "Investigating the Roots of Civic Morality: Trust, Social Capital, and Institutional Performance." Published in Political Behavior, 2006, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 305-325.

• 2003-W14 (24 July 2003) Christian List The Voting Power Approach: A Theory of Measurement.

• 2003-W15 (9 September 2003) Stuart Soroka and Christopher Wlezien Degrees of Democracy: Public Preferences and Policy in Comparative Perspective [Revised 19 April 2004].

• 2003-W16 (9 September 2003) Iain McLean et al. Identifying the Flow of Domestic and European Expenditure into the English Regions (Executive Summary). The full report is available here.

• 2003-W17 (8 October 2003) Iain McLean Fiscal Federalism in Canada.

• 2003-W18 (20 October 2003) Michael P. Colaresi and Joachim Karl Rennstich All Politics Are Orbital: Two-Level Rivarly Dynamics and the US-Soviet Space Race.

• 2003-W19 (20 October 2003) Michael P. Colaresi and William R. Thompson All Rivalries Are Not Created Equal: The Initiation and Escalation of Spatial and Positional Rivalries.

2002 PAPERS

• 2002-W1 (15 January 2002) Christopher Wlezien "Patterns of Representation: Dynamics of Public Preferences and Policy", published in Journal of Politics 66, pp. 1-24, 2004.

• 2002-W2 (15 January 2002) Iain McLean "William H. Riker and the invention of heresthetic(s)", published in British Journal of Political Science 32, pp. 535-558, 2002.

• 2002-W3 (15 January 2002) Christian List A New Proposal on Special Majority Voting.

• 2002-W4 (28 January 2002) Stephen D. Fisher and David P. Myatt Strategic Voting Experiments.

• 2002-W5 (29 January 2002) Johannes Lindner and Berthold Rittberger The Creation, Interpretation and Contestation of Institutions -- Revisiting Historical Institutionalism.

• 2002-W6 (7 February 2002) David Levi-Faur Herding towards a New Convention: On herds, shepherds, and lost sheep in the liberalization of the telecommunications and electricity industries.

• 2002-W7 (12 February 2002) Stuart N. Soroka When Does News Matter? Public Agenda-Setting for Unemployment.

• 2002-W8 (20 February 2002) Clive Payne Election Forecasting in the UK.

• 2002-W9 (1 March 2002) Natalia Letki and Geoffrey Evans "Endogenizing Social Trust: Democratization in East-Central Europe", published in the British Journal of Political Science 35, pp. 515-529, 2005.

• 2002-W10 (12 March 2002) Iain McLean and Alistair McMillan The Fiscal Crisis of the United Kingdom.

• 2002-W11 (8 April 2002) Christian List Multidimensional Welfare Aggregation [Revised 5 December 2002].

• 2002-W12 (24 April 2002) David P. Myatt A New Theory of Strategic Voting [Revised 3 May 2002].

• 2002-W13 (29 April 2002) David Levi-Faur The Politics of Liberalisation: Privatisation and Regulation-for-Competition in Europes and Latin Americas Telecoms and Electricity Industries.

• 2002-W14 (3 May 2002) David P. Myatt Idiosyncrasy, Information and the Impact of Strategic Voting.

• 2002-W15 (9 May 2002) Christian List Discursive Path-Dependencies.

• 2002-W16 (27 May 2002) Christopher Wlezien A Note on the Endogeneity of Ideological Placements of Government Institutions.

• 2002-W17 (18 June 2002) Andreas Busch Divergence or Convergence? State Regulation of the Banking System in Western Europe and the United States.

• 2002-W18 (18 June 2002) Christian Elsholtz and Christian List A Simple Proof of Sen's Possibility Theorem on Majority Decisions.

• 2002-W19 (9 July 2002) Christian List The Impossibility of a Paretian Republican? Some Comments on Pettit and Sen.

• 2002-W20 (11 July 2002) Christopher Wlezien and Stuart N. Soroka "Measures and Models of Budgetary Policy", published in Policy Studies Journal 31, pp. 273-286, 2003.

• 2002-W21 (12 July 2002) Stephen D. Fisher and Marc Swyngedouw "Electoral Change, Party Competition, and the Position of the Extreme-Right in the Flemish Party System" (please contact author).

• 2002-W22 (24 July 2002) Jimmy Chan and Erik Eyster Admission Impossible? Self Interest and Affirmative Action.

• 2002-W23 (27 August 2002) Iain McLean Australian electoral reform and two concepts of representation.

• 2002-W24 (28 August 2002) Iain McLean Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and the Dclaration des Droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen.

• 2002-W25 (29 August 2002) Elisabeth Ivarsflaten The Populist Centre-Authoritarian Challenge: A Revised Account of the Radical Right's Success in Western Europe.

• 2002-W26 (12 September 2002) Stuart N. Soroka and Christopher Wlezien "Opinion-Policy Dynamics: Public Preferences and Public Expenditure in the UK", published in the British Journal of Political Science 35, pp. 665-689, 2005.

• 2002-W27 (25 September 2002) Christopher Wlezien and Robert S. Erikson Patterns of Poll Movement, published in Public Perspective , pp. 30-35, 2002.

• 2002-W28 (18 October 2002) Iain McLean Fiscal Federalism in Australia [Revised 25 November 2002].

• 2002-W29 (6 November 2002) Iain McLean The origin and strange history of regulation in the UK: three case studies in search of a theory.

• 2002-W30 (14 November 2002) Elisabeth Ivarsflaten The Puzzle of Populist Right Success in Western Europe.

• 2002-W31 (15 November 2002) Ron Johnston and Clive Payne Electoral Reform in Bermuda.

• 2002-W32 (18 November 2002) Christian List On the Significance of the Absolute Margin.

• 2002-W33 (4 December 2002) Massimiliano Granieri Beyond Traditional Technology Transfer of Faculty-Generated Inventions: Building a Bridge towards R&D.

• 2002-W34 (31 December 2002) Stuart Soroka Number of Responses and the Most Important Question.