Are women more likely to quit politics after losing their first race than men? In the wake of the 2016 presidential election, the number of…
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…
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…
Justin de Benedictis-Kessner is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. His…
County governments are a crucial component of the fabric of American democracy. Yet there has been almost no previous research on the…