We study the long run effects of immigration on American political ideology. Exploiting cross-
county variation in the presence of European immigrants between 1900 and 1930, we …

Law has much to say about the practice of legislative representation. Legal rules from
different substantive domains collectively determine the landscape in which legislators act …

Is local attention a substitute for policy representation? Fenno (1978) famously described
how legislators develop personal ties with their constituents through periodic visits to their …

Abstract Between 1940 and 1970, more than 4 million African Americans moved from the
South to the North of the US, during the Second Great Migration. This same period …

How does protest affect political speech? Protest is an important form of political claim-
making, yet our understanding of its influence on how individual legislators communicate …

Abstract Background United States cancer death rates have been steadily declining since
the early 1990s, but information on disparities in progress against cancer mortality across …

This study advances research on the role of protest in individual-level participation
repertoires by examining how latent class analysis can be used to identify distinctive types of …

Do constituents care how judges are chosen? We conduct two nationally representative
survey experiments focusing on state trial courts. Our first study indicates that respondents …

A large strand of scholarly inquiry has built on the assumption that being active in
legislatures helps further representatives' career prospects by enhancing their media and …

Do representatives provide fair and proportional representation to each place in their district
or, rather, do they favour some places, creating winners and losers of representation? While …