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Over the past 30 years, the United States has developed a rural-urban political divide, as rural voters have become increasingly reliable Republican voters while long-term patterns of Democratic voting in the largest cities have also consolidated in many...

 

Debates over racial voting, and over policies to combat vote dilution, turn on the extent to which groups’ voting preferences differ and vary across geography. We present the first study of racial voting patterns in every congressional district (CD) in...

We study the economic and political consequences of the 2018-2019 trade war between the United States, China and other US trade partners at the detailed geographic level, exploiting measures of local exposure to US import tariffs, foreign retaliatory...

Objective

While they were once viewed as largely local or candidate-centered contests, recent American elections have come to be dominated by national forces such as presidential politics and partisanship. Prior research on voter behavior in this new era...

Previous research suggests that vetoes can be politically costly for the president. To date, however, these inferences have been made based on either descriptive or aggregate-level data. While prior work demonstrates a correlation between vetoes and...

Objective: While they were once viewed as largely local or
candidate-centered contests, recent American elections have
come to be dominated by national forces such as presidential
politics and partisanship. Prior research on voter behavior in this
new era of...