A “provocative”(Kirkus Reviews), timely, and topical work that examines what's good for
American business and what's good for Americans—and why those interests are …

Elections are at the heart of our democracy. Understanding citizens' decisions to vote or to
abstain in elections is crucial, especially when turnout in so many democracies is declining …

Equal access to voting is a core feature of democratic government. Using data from
hundreds of thousands of smartphone users, we quantify a racial disparity in voting wait …

IN THE NOVEMBER 2012 GENERAL ELECTION, 1 in 10 voters waited in line for more than
30 minutes to cast a ballot. About 3.5 million voters waited in excess of an hour, with some …

Researchers have increasingly paid attention to the impact that the administrative
component of elections has on voter behavior. Existing research has focused almost …

Despite a wealth of literature on the determinants of electoral turnout, little is known about
the cost of voting. Some studies suggest that facilitating voting slightly increases turnout, but …

This paper is the result of a nationwide study of polling place dynamics in the 2016
presidential election. Research teams, recruited from local colleges and universities and …

In mid-2011, the Florida legislature reduced the state's early voting period from fourteen
days to eight and eliminated the final Sunday of early voting. We compare observed voting …

Lines at the polls raise the cost of voting and can precipitate unequal treatment of voters.
Research on voting lines is nonetheless hampered by a fundamental measurement …

Following the defeat of Hillary Clinton in the presidential election of 2016, many prominent
scholars and political pundits argued that a successful Democratic Party in the future must …