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Ages of organization: The emergence of national interest groups in American history
“Liberty is to faction what air is to fire” wrote James Madison in Federalist No. 10 of his fear that constitutional freedoms to assemble and petition for redress would lead to a dangerous proliferation of political parties and interest groups.…
Statistical skills for the workplace: A practical approach to teaching methods with Excel
Teaching statistics with Excel can be quite rewarding. It is much more likely to be used by students beyond the classroom than programs such as SPSS or Stata. Excel offers everything needed to teach introductory-level statistics at the undergraduate…
Presidential rhetoric and nationalism: Evidence from Russia and Ukraine
This article leverages saliency theory to explore how regimes may use state-controlled media to intensify nationalism and gain legitimacy. I explore mainstream news coverage in Russia and Ukraine with a particular emphasis on how political leadership…
Uncivil rights: The abuse of tribal sovereignty and the termination of American Indian tribal citizenship
Starting in the 1990s, an increasing number of Indigenous people have been removed from tribal rolls, denying them basic citizenship rights, including due process, private property rights, jobs, voting rights, and the like. Popularly known as…
Seeing is believing: An experiment on absentee ballots and voter confidence
Since the 2000 election, researchers have taken an interest in the role of voter confidence and its importance as an assessment of public trust in electoral outcomes. Many factors may influence voter confidence including the way in which a voter…
Interest Group and Political Party Influence on Growth in State Spending and Debt
Does more lobbying by more interest groups, especially groups representing a state’s largest business sector, lead to greater spending and debt? Or does the blame really rest with state lawmakers and their political parties, which compete to attract…
Internal legitimacy and governance in the absence of recognition: The cases of the Donetsk and Luhansk “People’s Republics.”
This article examines the strategies used by the self-proclaimed governments of the “Donetsk People’s Republic” (DPR) and the “Luhansk People’s Republic” (LPR) in achieving internal legitimacy. It specifically highlights the attempts of the two…
If you ask, they will come (to register and vote): Field experiments with state election agencies on encouraging voter registration
We address the frequent critique that voter registration is a barrier to participation in the US. Institutional reforms to voter registration produce only small impacts on participation. We show the registration barrier can be reduced without…
The Internal Armed Conflict and State Capacity: Institutional Reforms and the Effective Exercise of Authority
Between 1980 and 1994, Peru endured a bloody internal armed conflict, with some 69,000 people killed in clashes involving two insurgent movements, state forces, and local armed groups. In 2003, a government-sponsored “Truth and Reconciliation…