Politicians use their communication to present a strategic version of themselves to voters. One component of this is the ideological…
A potential voter must incur a number of costs in order to successfully cast an in-person ballot, including the costs associated with…
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…
Ten years after the onset of the Arab Spring, the Middle East and North Africa are torn between two visions of progress: a democratic one…
Policy responses to the COVID-19 outbreak must strike a balance between maintaining essential supply chains and limiting the spread of the…
How do expressions of support or opposition by the U.S. federal government, influence violent hate crimes against specific racial and…
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 –…
Retrospective voting is a crucial component of democratic accountability. A large literature on retrospective voting in the United States…