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…
Has rising import competition contributed to the polarization of US politics? Analyzing multiple measures of political expression and…
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…