How do media portrayals of potential policy beneficiaries’ identities sway public support for these policies in a public health setting?…
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?…
How do high-profile acts of police brutality affect public trust and cooperation with law enforcement? To investigate this question, we…
Are women more likely to quit politics after losing their first race than men? In the wake of the 2016 presidential election, the number of…
Nearly 1,000 officer-involved killings occur each year in the United States. This article documents the large, racially disparate effects…
Roughly a thousand people are killed by American law enforcement officers each
year, accounting for more than 5% of all homicides. We…
How do racial signals associating a candidate with minority supporters change voters’ perceptions about a candidate and their support for a…
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…
For many Americans, cities have become a beacon of hope. They are widely recognized as engines of the U.S. economy and laboratories of…