It is by now a cliché to observe that Barack Obama took office facing the greatest challenge of any United States president since Franklin…
Anyone who followed the 2008 presidential campaign knows which candidate was considered
“hard to like,” which was likely to bring change,…
Originally published in 2000, The Right to Vote was widely hailed as a magisterial account of the evolution of suffrage from the American…
Buenos Aires and Chicago grew during the nineteenth century for remarkably similar reasons. Both cities were conduits for moving meat and…
On April 10, 1966, a crowd of 10,000 farm workers and supporters gathered at the California state capitol to celebrate victory in one of…
If voters have negligible cognition costs, ballot layout should not affect election outcomes. We explore deviations from rational voting…
n the immediate aftermath of the election of
1964, no group was more visibly alienated by the
candidacy of Barry Goldwater than the black…