Beginning in 2021, state legislators introduced or passed numerous bills intended to shape appropriate content in K–12 social studies…
Previous research focused on popular US Supreme Court rulings expanding rights; however, less is known about rulings running against…
Political scientist Hakeem Jefferson (Stanford University) facilitated a discussion about race, policing, and the state of American…
A potential voter must incur a number of costs in order to successfully cast an in-person ballot, including the costs associated with…
Can democratic participation reduce inequalities in citizenship produced by policing? We argue that citizen participation in policing…
Why the Supreme Court agrees to hear cases is among the most important topics in judicial politics. However, existing theories have…
For too long the federal policymaking process has been mysterious and inaccessible to everyone but the most sophisticated, elite…
What are the downstream political consequences of state activity explicitly targeting an ethnic minority group? This question is well…
Scholars of descriptive representation have paid growing attention to the issue of class. This article contributes to this line of research…
Does personal and family history influence legislative behavior in democracies? Linking members of Congress to the census, we observe…