Partisan gerrymandering and polarization have created an electoral landscape where Americans increasingly reside in congressional districts…
In most states, redistricting, the process by which electoral district boundaries are drawn, is an overtly partisan exercise controlled by…
Roughly a thousand people are killed by American law enforcement officers each
year, accounting for more than 5% of all homicides. We…
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…
County governments are a crucial component of the fabric of American democracy. Yet there has been almost no previous research on the…
How do racial signals associating a candidate with minority supporters change voters’ perceptions about a candidate and their support for a…
Lobbying presents an attractive postcongressional career, with some former congressional members and staffers transitioning to lucrative…