One of the most contentious issues in politics today is the propriety of electing judges. Ought
judges be independent of democratic processes in obtaining and retaining their seats, or …

While the effects of legal and institutional arrangements on political participation are well
documented, little attention has been given to the potential participatory effects of one of the …

This paper presents a goal-oriented model of political participation based on two
psychological assumptions. The first is that people are more altruistic towards individuals …

Hall notes that ballot rolloff in supreme court races is substantial but not random. Various
institutional, election-specific, state, and district-level contextual forces lead rolloff to …

Although the vast majority of legal disputes about the electoral process turn on the
interpretation of statutes,'election law scholars tend to focus on constitutional questions. We …

This paper addresses the impact of making multiple previous choices on decision making,
which we call Vchoice fatigue. V We exploit a natural experiment in which different voters in …

This paper examines the real-time effects of various types of judicial campaign content,
including informative, self-promoting advertising, on voter mobilization during the 2007 …

This project evaluates whether television advertising and the changing electoral climate
brought about by Republican Party of Minnesota v. White (2002) have had detrimental …

How does moving to another community affect political participation? This project has
pursued a thorough examination of the most common answer to this question, which is that …

The use of the political marketplace analogy is common in the academic literature on the law
of democracy. The analogy between a consumer and voter lies at the heart of this analogy …