From time to time in the current political debate people reference the Heritage Foundation dataset in terms of the number of court cases involving non-citizen registration and voting. Unfortunately searching this dataset is difficult and I see numbers all over… Continue Reading →

Long form interview on the presidential election today. Here are the links to today’s conversation on WAVY.com and Facebook. WAVY.com: https://www.wavy.com/news/politics/local-politics/virginia-presidential-primary-is-one-month-away/ https://www.facebook.com/wavytv10/videos/418417920628939/

I presented a version of this paper at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association conference in April 2022.

Review of “The People Cannot Choose a Constitution: Constituent Power’s Inability to Justify Ratification Referrendums” by Jeffrey A. Lenowitz.  Published in the Journal of Politics, Volume 83 Number 2.  https://doi.org/10.1086/709864 In “The People Cannot Choose a Constitution: Constituent Power’s Inability… Continue Reading →

The Virginia House of Delegates could go either way.  Nearly all of the commentary and attention focused on Virginia’s 2021 elections has been directed at the race for governor.  But an even closer contest is playing out in districts across the… Continue Reading →

The latest and greatest reform effort heading into the 2020 post-census redistricting was the shift by a number of states towards an effort to take the politics out of redistricting through redistricting commissions.  In some places this seems to be… Continue Reading →

Several years ago my coauthors and I did a study looking at the 2008 and 2010 CCES survey data in order to try to estimate the prevalence of non-citizen participation in US elections. The basic theoretical idea behind the study… Continue Reading →

This afternoon my department took a first step towards keeping research dialogue going despite the shutdown when we held a virtual Brownbag research talk where I presented some reflections on my Fulbright grant study of populism in Hungary. The video… Continue Reading →