After more than a century of expanding the voting rights of previously disenfranchised groups, the American electoral system today is…
How do expressions of support or opposition by the U.S. federal government, influence violent hate crimes against specific racial and…
Populism studies have rapidly burgeoned but systematic global empirical evidence about this phenomenon has lagged behind. How can party…
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…
Inequalities in voter participation between groups of the population pose a problem for democratic representation. We use administrative…
Has rising import competition contributed to the polarization of US politics? Analyzing multiple measures of political expression and…
Contrary to popular belief, Democratic presidents have been better for the economy than Republicans.
On June 13, 2015, Manuela Carmena—a former judge and novice politician—stood in the ornate neo-gothic surroundings of Madrid’s Cibeles…