One of the most important developments in American politics over the last 40 years has
been the rise of negative partisanship—the phenomenon whereby Americans largely align …

One of the most important developments affecting electoral competition in the United States
has been the increasingly partisan behavior of the American electorate. Yet more voters …

The symbolic importance of Barack Obama's election is without question. But beyond
symbolism, does the election of African-American politicians matter? Grose argues that it …

In this paper, we introduce a recently developed methodology for assessing the assumption
of causal homogeneity in a time series cross-section Granger framework. Following a …

Tremendous transformation marks the last three decades of American politics, and nowhere
has this change been as distinctive and penetrating as in the American South. After 120 …

One explanation for the post-1965 shift in the vote choice of White Americans posits that it
was driven by a shift in the racial imagery of the two major parties. The growing role of …

Objective We empirically demonstrate that the long‐held political distinction between the
Deep South and the Peripheral South persists to this day. Methods Data from the …

• The key features of the new era of electoral competition are a closely divided electorate at
the national level, one-party domination of most states and congressional districts, and a …

In this article, we examine the role that in-migration played in contributing to the 2008
Democratic presidential victory in North Carolina. Prior to Barack Obama, the last time the …