We collect and analyze a corpus of more than 300,000 political emails sent during the 2020
US election cycle. These emails were sent by over 3000 political campaigns and …

Members of Congress frequently cite official travels abroad as one of the best opportunities
to develop friendships across the aisle. Yet since 1977, representatives spent roughly one of …

In this dissertation, I present measurement methods to automatically identify manipulative
user interfaces—colloquially known as “dark patterns”—at scale on the web. Using these …

Members of Congress frequently tout their official travels abroad as one of the best
opportunities to develop friendships across the aisle. Yet since 1977, roughly one of every …

Out of all of the recommendations made by this Committee, I'm proudest of our various
recommendations that would serve the American people by promoting this level of …

We study the extent to which personal connections among legislators influence abstentions
in the US Congress. Our analysis is conducted by observing representatives' abstentions for …

We show that WinRed's emergence as Republicans' leading online fundraising platform
proves how parties can evolve to help members achieve their ambitions (Aldrich, 2011). We …

Congressional elections scholarship has paid considerable attention to the relationship
between presidential politics and midterm outcomes; what is termed the “surge-and-decline” …

Principal-agent problems are ubiquitous in politics. They underlie the most fundamental
question in democratic politics of how voters can hold elected officials accountable (eg …

American corporate and political elites are connected by the donations that the latter receive
from the former. Using a novel dataset, this paper analyzes these connections as a social …