As we all wait for Callais to come down, our piece showing that Shelby County increased the racial turnout gap in most of the covered parts of the country has cleared the replication check and is incoming at JOP.

Gutting the VRA was bad, actually.

This is an important paper at @apsrjournal.bsky.social. It's not exactly surprising that racism undermines effective representation, but it is well and carefully done. Congrats to @markarianga.bsky.social, @jacobhacker.bsky.social, @maclockhart.bsky.social, and Hajnal

doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Our new @apsrjournal.bsky.social is out! We study whether policy and congresspeople are more responsive to White Americans than racial minorities, matching individual level opinion to policy outcomes and roll call votes on 134 issues using 500K survey responses from 2016-2022. 1/n

My new
@ajpseditor.bsky.social
article w/ V. Kogan
& Z. Hajnal is now out.

We show that Latinos are likelier to run for local office and win in cities that switch to on-cycle elections in CA. Election consolidation improves descriptive representation.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...