We review recent work on the accuracy of group judgmental processes as a function of (a)
the competences (judgmental accuracies) of individual group members, (b) the group …

As we move into the 1990s, compactness of legislative districts is likely to take on greater
importance because of its relevance to questions of racial and partisan discrimination. We …

The authors focus on the dichotomous crisp set form of qualitative comparative analysis (QCA).
The authors review basic set theoretic QCA methodology, including truth tables, solution …

Bernard Grofman and Scott Feld argued in the June 1988 issue of this Review that Jean-Jacques
Rousseau's contributions to democratic political theory could be illuminated by …

▪ Abstract We take as our starting point the insights of Downs (1957) into two-party competition.
A careful reading of Downs offers a much more sophisticated and nuanced portrait of the …

Scholars who have presented their QCA and fs/QCA results in conference papers or journal
articles will most likely have encountered the problem that an audience not trained in these …

Professors Merrill and Grofman develop a unified model that incorporates voter motivations
and assesses its empirical predictions--for both voter choice and candidate strategy--in the …

We identify three basic elements of Rousseau's theory of the general will: (1) there is a
common good; (2) citizens are not always accurate in their judgments about what is in the …

We offer a spatial model of voter choice based on the directionality and magnitude of
expected shifts from the status quo. In this model citizens do not look merely at the positions (…

'Professor of Political Sciences, School of Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine. I
have served as an expert witness in state legislative or congressional reapportionment cases …