Recent Posts
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Racial Liberalism: Connecting Protest and Electoral Politics Today
The year is 2020, not 1968. There has been extensive commentary about the protests over the recent murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police suggesting parallels to the black insurgency […]
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Equal Votes, Better Participation? Exploring how the National Popular Vote Compact Could Affect Voter Turnout in Presidential Elections
By Alice Malmberg The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) proposes an alternative to how the United States currently elects its president by tying the outcome of the national popular […]
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Is There a Catholic Vote and Does It Matter?
Catholics are the largest religious group in the United States comprising roughly 23% of the population. While they are concentrated in the Northeast, there are also sizable populations of Catholics […]
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Explainer: Kentucky’s 2020 Primary Election
By Dr. Benjamin R. Knoll This year’s Kentucky primary election will take place on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020. Below are answers to all the questions you wanted to ask about […]
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Campaigning in a Crisis: Political Communication and Rhetoric during COVID-19
Political analysts and commentators have frequently described Donald Trump’s political communication and rhetoric as unprecedented. Yet during the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Trump’s communication and rocky relationship with the press […]
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Mapping the Geography of Gubernatorial Campaigns Using Social Media
What do a clam bake in Crisfield, Maryland, a Fourth of July parade in Windsor Heights, Iowa, and a minor league baseball game in Jacksonville, Florida have in common? They […]
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Do (Nasty) Campaigns Mobilize?
High turnout matters. It is one of the three key indicators of good democratic performance of a country as famously identified by Powell,[1] and its absence is often seen as […]
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Your Guide to the Indiana Primaries
Voting can be a complicated process, especially during an unprecedented global pandemic, which has already disrupted, and will continue to disrupt, our electoral processes. This guide to the Indiana primary elections […]
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Using COVID-19 and Connecticut’s Primary Elections to Teach Political Science Concepts
Connecticut’s 2020 primary election is a great example of electoral politics to include in a variety of classroom lessons. For public policy courses, it showcases how focusing events, defined as “an event that is sudden; relatively uncommon; can […]
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Will the Pandemic Weaken the Union to the Point of Collapse?
Over the past 20 years, I’ve taught thousands of students a particular narrative about how the US government formed—American colonists established mechanisms in the Constitution to help them solve significant collective action problems. It’s worth remembering that […]