As Donald Trump blackened Washington on his way out of town, pundits lauded the end of Trumpism’s hold on the Republican Party. What they…
A great deal of research presents the correspondence between economic conditions and incumbent electoral fortunes as evidence of democratic…
Partisan gerrymandering and polarization have created an electoral landscape where Americans increasingly reside in congressional districts…
We study the contribution of economic conditions to the success of the first avowedly nativist political party in the United States. The…
Roughly a thousand people are killed by American law enforcement officers each
year, accounting for more than 5% of all homicides. We…
Among our greatest leaders are those driven by impulses they cannot completely control - by lust. Lust is not, however, an abstraction, it…
What are the consequences of women dying in combat? We study how women fighting on the frontlines of the military affects public attitudes…
Inequalities in voter participation between groups of the population pose a problem for democratic representation. We use administrative…
What are the social and political consequences of poor state governance and low state legitimacy? Under what conditions does lynching –…
BOOK DESCRIPTIONEvery four years, millions of Americans wonder why they choose their presidents through the Electoral College, an arcane…