Addressing climate change requires societies to transition away from fossil fuels toward low-
carbon energy, including renewables. Unfortunately, large wind projects have proven …

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 …

The study of urban and local politics in the United States has long been hindered by a lack
of centralized sources of election data. We introduce a new database of about 78,000 …

Abstract In 2020, Arizonans approved Proposition 207, the Smart and Safe Arizona Act,
which legalized recreational marijuana sales. Previous research has typically used non …

Recent scholarship has shown that legislators with deeper local roots and other preexisting
place‐based attachments to their districts enjoy far‐reaching electoral advantages over their …

Conventional narratives of the 2020 presidential election typically overlook the growing
importance of voters of color in suburbia, especially in battleground states such as Georgia …

In 2020, support for Joe Biden among Latina/o/x voters was 8 percentage points lower than
support for Hillary Clinton in 2016, the largest drop of any racial/ethnic group. While much …

Abstract Research Summary Following high‐profile police killings, many US cities banned
officers from using chokeholds and other neck restraints. The evidence for such bans …

Abstract The Massachusetts Firearms Records Bureau recently published administrative
data covering the universe of legal firearm transactions in the state. We use these data to …

This article provides an overview of the new congressional and state legislative districts that
were drawn around the country during the 2021–2022 redistricting cycle. We provide …