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…
Since the 1990s, neo-institutionalists have posited that "institutions matter". However, they overlook one important issue: the ways…
Following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the grounds behind Vladimir Putin’s decision were widely debated.…
Where do human societies come from? The drive to answer this question took on a new urgency in the nineteenth century, when a generation of…
More than 40% of US high school students have access to Naviance, a proprietary tool designed to guide college search and application…
Decades of low inflation led to widespread use of dollar-denominated financial instruments with fixed interest rates and long maturities.…