State Policies and the US Election Franchise: A Multistage Approach
Studies that examine the impacts of state policies on voter participation tend to focus on one of five stages: eligibility, registration, turnout, balloting, and counting.
Research
Leading with Intentionality: The 4P Framework for Strategic Leadership
The ability to exercise leadership effectively requires skills and capacities that must be developed; they are not innate.
Extreme Leaders As Negotiation Anchors
Legislative leaders tend to be ideologically more extreme than their median members. Why? This paper shows that party members select extreme leaders as a strategic measure to anchor negotiations.
Subnational economic conditions and the changing geography of mass Euroscepticism: A longitudinal analysis
Existing research mainly analyzes mass attitudes towards the European Union (EU) from the national and individual-level perspective.
Protests Under Trump, 2017-2021
The Trump presidency featured a high volume of contentious mobilization. We describe the collection and aggregation of protest mobilization data from 2017 to 2021 and offer five observations.
Why cap-and-trade should (and does) have appeal to politicians
Are cap-and-trade schemes working?
Habits of Courage: Reconceptualizing Risk in Social Movement Organizing
We examine the types of risk that organizers seeking to build people-based political power take and describe how organizers cultivate habits of courage in themselves and others to regularly confront t
What the Next Mayor Needs to Do About Boston's Transportation Crisis
To move forward on any of the challenges confronting Boston, we have to think about how we are — physically — getting there.
Beyond Numbers
How do leaders translate collective action into political power—or not?
Prisms of the People: Power & Organizing in Twenty-First-Century America
Grassroots organizing and collective action have always been fundamental to American democracy but have been burgeoning since the 2016 election, as people struggle to make their voices heard in this m
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