The United States is a nation of immigrants. For centuries, waves of migrants and refugees have arrived in America seeking economic…
Nearly 1,000 officer-involved killings occur each year in the United States. This article documents the large, racially disparate effects…
Nearly 61 million Americans have a disability, making the group the country’s largest minority. Individuals with disabilities cut across…
In her new book, Authoritarian Police in Democracy: Contested Security in Latin America, vlog Assistant Professor of Public Policy Yanilda…
As Yogi Berra once said, “A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.” Nothing could be truer when it comes to money in American politics. In the…
After more than a century of expanding the voting rights of previously disenfranchised groups, the American electoral system today is…
Roughly a thousand people are killed by American law enforcement officers each
year, accounting for more than 5% of all homicides. We…
Inequalities in voter participation between groups of the population pose a problem for democratic representation. We use administrative…
County governments are a crucial component of the fabric of American democracy. Yet there has been almost no previous research on the…
“I want to be remembered as a woman … who dared to be a catalyst of change.”
- Shirley Chisholm
In 1972, Shirley Chisholm made history as…