The study of urban and local politics in the United States has long been hindered by a lack of centralized sources of election data. We…
How do media portrayals of potential policy beneficiaries’ identities sway public support for these policies in a public health setting?…
Housing policy is one of the most important areas of local politics. Yet little is known about how local legislatures and executives make…
To move forward on any of the challenges confronting Boston, we have to think about how we are — physically — getting there. Climate change…
Scholars differ as to whether populist beliefs are a discourse or an ideology resembling conservatism or liberalism. Research has shown…
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…
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When does self-interest influence public opinion on contentious public policies? The bulk of theory in political science suggests that self…
Do 40-Year-Old Facts Still Matter? Long-Run Effects of Federal Oversight under the Voting Rights Act
In 2013, the Supreme Court struck down parts of the Voting Rights Act that mandated federal oversight of election laws in discriminatory…