In recent years, a consensus has developed among scholars that the timing of elections has large effects on the electoral and political…
Do biases in representation arise at the most basic levels of policy implementation, and can political participation contribute to these…
The deepest foundation of our democratic crisis is our increasing human interdependence. That interdependence creates increasing needs for…
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…
Redistricting reformers have proposed many solutions to the problem of partisan gerrymandering, but they all require either bipartisan…
To what extent do partisan media influence political attitudes and behavior? Although recent methodological advancements have improved…
An enormous body of academic and journalistic work argues that opaque recommendation algorithms contribute to political polarization by…
Mark Warren grew up in a family that taught him a lot of lessons. In my third interview with Warren, as I probed for details of his life,…
Inequalities in voter participation between groups of the population pose a problem for democratic representation. We use administrative…
Who deserves to participate in local democracy? A wide body of research shows that property owners are deeply overrepresented in local…