Apr 7, 2021
This year the U.S. will go through its decennial redistricting process, which is resurfacing our national conversation around gerrymandering. But Stanford Professor of Political Science, Jonathan Rodden, says gerrymandering isn't the least of our problems when it comes to the politics of geography.
In his book, "Why...
Mar 24, 2021
Are land-use regulations incredibly boring? Not quite. As our guest argues, these seemingly banal policies could be causing modern-day segregation.
In a new paper, Jessica Trounstine, chair of the political science department a the University of California Merced, makes a strong case for why land-use policies...
Mar 10, 2021
We’re constantly told that we’re trapped in media “echo chambers”, that our media diets mirror our political leanings. But what do the data say? Is it possible that a majority of us have a much more moderate media diet than we assume?
A new paper by Andrew Guess, Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton,...
Feb 24, 2021
Feb 10, 2021
Political scandal is a historically defining aspect of American politics. But, there’s been very little scholarship on the political incentives that surround the production and consequences of scandals.
In a recent paper, “Political Scandal: A Theory”, our very own Will Howell and Wioletta Dziuda create a new...