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Adriane Stewart Fresh

Adriane Stewart Fresh

Assistant Professor of Political Science
Political Science
adriane.fresh@duke.edu
140 Science Drive, 281 Gross Hall, Box 90204, Durham, NC 27708
Office hours By appointment (Room 281 Gross Hall).  

Selected Publications

Population and Political Change in Industrial Britain

Journal Article · February 21, 2024 Cite

The Racial Geography of U.S. Public Opinion at the Punitive Turn

Journal Article Journal of Race, Ethnicity and Politics · January 1, 2024 A large literature considers the mid-century a key turning point in punitive public opinion in the United States. This article examines racial and geographic heterogeneity in changing public opinion during the mid-century using data on death penalty suppor ... Full text Cite

The Political Economy of Suffrage Reform: The Great Reform Act of 1832

Journal Article Journal of Historical Political Economy · May 17, 2023 We argue that the Great Reform Act’s suffrage provisions were part of a broader effort to constrain the executive, thereby enabling an expansion in the state’s repressive capacity. When they came to power, the Whigs first increased parliament’s power over ... Full text Cite

Enfranchisement and Incarceration after the 1965 Voting Rights Act

Journal Article American Political Science Review · 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 ... Full text Open Access Cite

Polling place changes and political participation: Evidence from North Carolina presidential elections, 2008-2016

Journal Article Political Science Research and Methods · 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 ... Full text Open Access Cite

The Politics of Locating Polling Places: Race and Partisanship in North Carolina Election Administration, 2008-2016

Journal Article Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy · 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 ... Full text Open Access Cite

The effect of the voting rights act on enfranchisement: Evidence from North Carolina

Journal Article Journal of Politics · April 1, 2018 Section 5 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act required covered jurisdictions-those deemed perniciously politically discriminatory to minorities-to preclear changes to their voting practices with the Department of Justice. By exploiting the use of a federally imp ... Full text Open Access Cite