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Journal of Legal Analysis
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January 1, 2026
We have undertaken the first systematic, cross-state investigation of the relationship between Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and Native representation. Though it is not necessary for Native representation, Section 2 remains an important contributor. I ...
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American Political Science Review
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August 20, 2022
The 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) fundamentally changed the distribution of electoral power in the US South. We examine the consequences of this mass enfranchisement of Black people for the use of the carceral state-police, the courts, and the prison system ...
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Political Analysis
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July 30, 2022
We introduce a fine-grained measure of the extent to which electoral districts combine and split local communities of co-partisans in unnatural ways. Our indicator - which we term Partisan Dislocation - is a measure of the difference between the partisan c ...
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Quarterly Journal of Political Science
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October 18, 2021
Theory predicts that social sanctioning can solve the collective action problem, but only when people find out whether their peers participate. We evaluate this prediction using data from the near-universe of cell phone subscribers in Venezuela. Those whos ...
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Political Science Research and Methods
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October 2, 2021
How do changes in Election Day polling place locations affect voter turnout? We study the behavior of more than 2 million eligible voters across three closely-contested presidential elections (2008-2016) in the swing state of North Carolina. Leveraging wit ...
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Quarterly Journal of Political Science
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July 13, 2021
Social context theory suggests that an important driver of political participation is the behavior of family, friends, co-workers and neighbors. How do social ties between individuals shape equilibrium behavior in larger populations? Despite theoretical in ...
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Election Law Journal Rules Politics and Policy
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June 1, 2021
Do local election administrators change precincts and Election Day polling place locations to target voters based on their partisanship or race? We systematically evaluate whether decisions consistent with targeting occur using the near universe of eligibl ...
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Statistics and Public Policy
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January 1, 2020
Relative to its overall statewide support, the Republican Party has been over-represented in congressional delegations and state legislatures over the last decade in a number of US states. A challenge is to determine the extent to which this can be explain ...
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Quarterly Journal of Political Science
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January 11, 2019
Ethnic politics scholars are increasingly convinced that (a) the political salience of ethnicity and (b) the correlation between ethno-linguistic fractionalization (ELF) and poor development are driven by the dense social networks shared by co-ethn ...
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Political Science and Politics
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April 2016
ABSTRACTTo allow researchers to investigate not only whether a paper’s methods are theoretically sound but also whether they have been properly implemented and are robust to alternative specifications, it is necessary that ...
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https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5159-4740