No. 41-2, May 2016

Index

• About the Authors
• Better Politicians: If We Pay, Will They Come?
• Constraining a Shadowy Future: Enacting APAs in Parliamentary Systems
• Do Open Primaries Improve Representation? An Experimental Test of California's 2012 Top‐Two Primary
• Hierarchical, Decentralized, or Something Else? Opposition Networks in the German Bundestag
• Introduction: A Retrospective of LSQ's First 40 Years
• Is Personal Vote‐Seeking Behavior Effective?
• Issue Information – Copyright page
• Issue Information – TOC
• Political Ambition in 14 Presidential Democracies
• The Ideological Congruence Illusion: The Impact of Valence
• The Power of an Hour: Effects of Candidate Time Expenditure in State Legislative Elections
• Up the Hill and Across the Aisle: Discovering the Path to Bipartisanship in Washington
• When Voters Pull the Trigger: Can Direct Democracy Restrain Legislative Excesses?