In the United States, 5.3 million children and adolescents are growing up either with
unauthorized status or with at least one parent who has that status. Until recently, little in the …

In the research literature on immigration attitudes, there are a number of theories that
explain why individuals hold positive or negative opinions of certain immigrant groups and …

Despite progress toward poverty alleviation, policy making still lags in thinking about how
individuals experience poverty as overlapping sources of disadvantage. Using the lens of …

Building upon existing literature, we offer a particular model of network policy diffusion—
which we call sustained organizational influence. Sustained organizational influence …

Abstract In the United States, striking racial disparities in COVID-19 infection and mortality
rates were one of the core patterns of the virus. These racial disproportionalities were a …

Scholars studying the causes and consequences of political representation, particularly in
terms of gender and race, often turn to a concept called descriptive representation …

Summary In 1969, political scientist Jack Walker published'The Diffusion of Innovations
among the American States' in the American Political Science Review.'Walker 1969'has …

Over the last two decades, the American states have become increasingly active in shaping
US immigration policies. One consistent predictor in studies of state immigration policies …

This essay provides a critical review of the field of immigration policy studies from the
perspective of measurement and modeling. It serves to contextualize and broaden the views …

Immigration policy over the last decade has been characterized by sustained congressional
inaction, unilateral executive action, and an intensification of policy activity at the state and …