Despite the importance of local elections in the United States, political scientists have little
knowledge of what shapes vote choice in most municipalities and special districts …

A number of recent formal models predict a positive effect of political knowledge on turnout.
Both information acquisition and turnout, however, are likely to be determined by a similar …

To offer insight into the complex relationship between democratic processes and the
judiciary and to expand knowledge about elections, this article examines ballot roll-off in 654 …

Analyzing data from three Deep South states, this paper examines roll‐off for lower‐level
offices and for referenda proposing repeal of nearly identical state prohibitions against …

Objectives. Many cities in the United States have undergone or are undergoing racial
transition from a majority white to a majority black population. Accompanying this is a …

As the preceding chapters clearly illustrate, debates over judicial selection are often heated.
Arguments run the gamut from eliminating judicial elections entirely to allowing them to “look …

Advocates of mail ballot elections predict that voting by mail will produce higher turnout and
allow voters to become more informed. Our study tests these predictions by taking …

In this paper, we investigate one highly significant aspect of the role of money in judicial
elections: whether campaign spending increases citizen participation in the recruitment and …