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 …

In The Turnout Gap, Bernard L. Fraga offers the most comprehensive analysis to date of the
causes and consequences of racial and ethnic disparities in voter turnout. Examining voting …

Although restricting formal voting rights—voter suppression—is not uncommon in
democracies, its incidence and form vary widely. Intuitively, when competing elites believe …

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 …

Though the persistence of voter suppression and disenfranchisement in the US is well‐
documented, we still know little about their contemporary ideological underpinnings beyond …

We examine state legislator behavior on restrictive voter identification (ID) bills from 2005 to
2013. Partisan polarization of state lawmakers on voter ID laws is well known, but we know …

Is bias in responsiveness to constituents conditional on the policy preferences of elected
officials? The scholarly conventional wisdom is that constituency groups who do not receive …

One contentious question in contemporary election administration is the impact of voter
identification requirements. We study a Virginia law that allows us to isolate the impact of …

Political observers argue that the United States is in a contemporary era of voter
suppression. We study one mechanism that may limit voter participation, the requirement to …