This paper documents the impact of popular media on racial hate by examining the first American blockbuster: 1915’s The Birth of a Nation…
For too long the federal policymaking process has been mysterious and inaccessible to everyone but the most sophisticated, elite…
What are the downstream political consequences of state activity explicitly targeting an ethnic minority group? This question is well…
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…
Medicare Part D is an outpatient prescription drug benefit for older Americans covering more than 46 million beneficiaries. Except for…
Committee formation in early American legislatures happened when those assemblies were inundated with petitions, a relationship unexamined…
Since the Founding, Supreme Court Justices have enjoyed life tenure. This helps insulate the Justices from political pressures, but it also…
Legislative leaders tend to be ideologically more extreme than their median members. Why? This paper shows that party members select…
The COVID-19 pandemic has focused attention on the important role that frontline retail, grocery, food service, and delivery workers play…