What are the downstream political consequences of state activity explicitly targeting an ethnic minority group? This question is well…
Last week’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade, ending the right to an abortion in the US, allowed many Red states to adopt some of the most…
In domains ranging from computer vision to natural language processing, machine learning models have been shown to exhibit stark…
A pandemic, like other disasters, changes how systems work. In order to support research on how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the dynamics…
What impact do mass civil society groups have on public policy? We study this issue by analyzing opposition to national prohibition by…
Representing and Being Represented in Turn’ - A Symposium on Hélène Landemore’s Open Democracy
Hélene Landemore’s Open Democracy challenges today’s democracies to meet their legitimacy deficits by opening up a wide array of…
Has the US Supreme Court become more conservative than the public? We introduce results of three surveys conducted over the course of a…
An overwhelming majority of Americans agree that rights are essential to their freedom, and that rights today are severely threatened. The…
Scholars of descriptive representation have paid growing attention to the issue of class. This article contributes to this line of research…
Committee formation in early American legislatures happened when those assemblies were inundated with petitions, a relationship unexamined…