BOOK DESCRIPTIONEvery four years, millions of Americans wonder why they choose their presidents through the Electoral College, an arcane…
Retrospective voting is a crucial component of democratic accountability. A large literature on retrospective voting in the United States…
Explains the landmark Great American Outdoors Act and why the bipartisan politics aligned to make it possible.
Credit reports are used in nearly all consumer lending decisions and, increasingly, in hiring decisions in the labor market, but the impact…
We develop new quasi-experimental tools to measure racial discrimination, due to either racial bias or statistical discrimination, in the…
One of the core tasks of a well-functioning state is providing fair and adequate criminal justice. Recent events have raised concerns that…
County governments are a crucial component of the fabric of American democracy. Yet there has been almost no previous research on the…
How do racial signals associating a candidate with minority supporters change voters’ perceptions about a candidate and their support for a…
Polls report that, contrary to the evidence, one quarter of Americans believe that millions of illegal votes were cast in the 2016…