Redistricting reformers have proposed many solutions to the problem of partisan gerrymandering, but they all require either bipartisan…
The Jury Selection Working Group of the Roundtable on Racial Disparities in Massachusetts Criminal Courts has released a new research brief…
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…
This paper documents the impact of popular media on racial hate by examining the first American blockbuster: 1915's The Birth of a Nation,…
How do media portrayals of potential policy beneficiaries’ identities sway public support for these policies in a public health setting?…
This article describes some of the challenges of effective governance for sustainability at the subnational level of government.
Housing policy is one of the most important areas of local politics. Yet little is known about how local legislatures and executives make…
How do high-profile acts of police brutality affect public trust and cooperation with law enforcement? To investigate this question, we…
We study the contribution of economic conditions to the success of the first avowedly nativist political party in the United States. The…