workshops

Why do authoritarian regimes consult citizens when designing national constitutions?

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

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

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

What motivates electoral support for radical right-wing parties (RRP)?

Many Latinos may not identify with the racial categories because of the racial hierarchy and the treatment and status of Latinos in the United States, while may think of themselves in different terms.

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…

Largely, community response to police killings are rare events, even in the communities in which they are common occurrences. In this paper, we explore two years of police killings to identify the conditions present when communities push back.  What are the factors that lead to protest or community response following a police killing? This study…