Scholars of American politics have long been skeptical of ordinary citizens' capacity to
influence, let alone control, their governments. Drawing on over eight decades of state-level …

An inside look at why the Republican Party has come to dominate the rural American South
Beginning with the Dixiecrat Revolt of 1948 and extending through the 2020 election cycle …

This study examines the relationship between support for excessive use of force by the
police and support for Trump during the 2016 primary election cycle. Findings suggest that …

Debates over racial voting, and over policies to combat vote dilution, turn on the extent to
which groups' voting preferences differ and vary across geography. We present the first …

This paper explores the assumed trade-off between district compactness and Black
representation in legislative districts in the American South. We analyze heuristically …

Though African-American and Latino electoral success in state legislative and
congressional elections continues to occur almost entirely in majority-minority districts …

From Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren to Stacey Abrams and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,
women around the country are running in—and winning—elections at an unprecedented …

What is the minimum black population necessary to elect African-American state
lawmakers? We offer the most comprehensive examination of the election of black state …

Scholarly accounts attribute the American South's historic partisan transformation that began
in the 1960s to a combination of political and economic factors, but no prior work …

Recent work on the influence of social identities reveals that placed-based attachments
serve as a powerful heuristic when making political assessments. When a politician makes a …