Cutting Off Your Nose to Spite Your Face

Regression discontinuity-intime estimates suggest that although depolicing followed the BLM protests, there was no improvement in policing quality, and crime was not impacted.

The literature on gender and corruption posit that women are perceived as less corrupt than men. Yet these studies are devoid of ethnicity. This is concerning as the scholarship on ethnic politics argues that diversity is associated with higher levels of corruption. The extant literature, however, tends to treat gender and ethnicity as mutually exclusive…

Some research suggests the threat posed by immigration enforcement compels Latinxs to support Democratic politicians.

Why do authoritarian regimes consult citizens when designing national constitutions?

Is there ethnic favoritism in street-level bureaucracy? And do conflict legacies facilitate ethnic favoritism? Street-level bureaucracy is the primary state institution that allows for direct interactions between ordinary citizens and agents of the state. While evidence of ethnic favoritism in distributive politics is overwhelming, existing works primarily explain the state agents’ behavior in contexts where they…

Rising levels of affective polarization have drawn increased attention and concern amongst public opinion and political behavior scholars.