A sine qua non in any basic understanding of the history of Islamic philanthropy is a familiarity with the story of the charitable…
Politicians use their communication to present a strategic version of themselves to voters. One component of this is the ideological…
In the 1960s, community groups across America had seemed to stand on the threshold of a new era of expanded involvement. Churches and…
A potential voter must incur a number of costs in order to successfully cast an in-person ballot, including the costs associated with…
A great deal of research presents the correspondence between economic conditions and incumbent electoral fortunes as evidence of democratic…
Partisan gerrymandering and polarization have created an electoral landscape where Americans increasingly reside in congressional districts…
Nearly 1,000 officer-involved killings occur each year in the United States. This article documents the large, racially disparate effects…
Ten years after the onset of the Arab Spring, the Middle East and North Africa are torn between two visions of progress: a democratic one…
Inequalities in voter participation between groups of the population pose a problem for democratic representation. We use administrative…
Retrospective voting is a crucial component of democratic accountability. A large literature on retrospective voting in the United States…