This article analyzes voter identification laws in the United States and their effects on voter
turnout. Theoretically, there are plausible reasons to hypothesize turnout lowering effects …

Winner of the 2020 Outstanding Book Award Presented by the Public and Nonprofit Section
of the National Academy of Management Winner of the 2019 Louis Brownlow Book Award …

The proliferation of increasingly strict voter identification laws around the country has raised
concerns about voter suppression. Although there are many reasons to suspect that these …

Do street-level bureaucrats discriminate in the services they provide to constituents? We use
a field experiment to measure differential information provision about voting by local election …

By many measures--commonsensical or statistical--the United States has not been more
divided politically or economically in the last hundred years than it is now. How have we …

A growing experimental literature uses response rates to fictional requests to measure
discrimination against ethnic minorities. This article argues that restricting attention to …

Since 2002, 26 US states have passed laws that enhance restrictions on voters who intend
to register and vote. Most have been sponsored by Republican legislators and passed by …

Southern states have used a variety of methods to disenfranchise African American voters.
Empirical data on the effectiveness of these measures is rare. We present a unique data …

Recently, many states have reversed the decades-long trend of facilitating ballot access by
enacting a wave of laws requesting or requiring identification from registrants before they …

Does partisan and racial context have an effect on the likelihood that states will adopt
stringent requirements for voting? Our duration analysis shows that Republican …