Covering more than four decades of American social and political history, The Loneliness of the Black Republican examines the ideas and…
We show that contemporary differences in political attitudes across counties in
the American South trace their origins to slavery’s…
In his new book, The Big Disconnect: Why the Internet Hasn’t Transformed Politics (Yet), Personal Democracy Forum founder Micah Sifry asks…
Following Stimpson and Herdt’s careful account of the evolution of gender studies and its relation to women’s and sexuality studies, the…
This study presents an exploration of trends in the American Bar Association ratings of minority judicial candidates over time. Notably,…
Why does Islam seem to dominate Egyptian politics, especially when the country's endemic poverty and deep economic inequality would seem to…
Will the death penalty ever be abolished in America? Executions, and the states that carry them out, are in decline. Public support for the…
ROCHESTER — RESEARCH has long shown that female judges vote differently from men on issues of sex discrimination, harassment and sentencing…
A new film about the labor leader reduces him to a caricature and ignores his true strengths as an organizer.
This article uses two newly collected data sets to investigate the reliance by political actors on the external vetting of judicial…