This study evaluates the impact of text messaging interventions on voter registration updates in two scenarios: one involving unresponsive…
We study the economic and political consequences of the 2018-2019 trade war between the United States, China and other U.S. trade partners…
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…
As Donald Trump blackened Washington on his way out of town, pundits lauded the end of Trumpism’s hold on the Republican Party. What they…
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…