Recently, the regression discontinuity (RD) design has become increasingly popular among
social scientists. One prominent application is the study of close elections. We explicate …

Over the past two decades, national political and civil discourse in the United States has
been characterized by" Truth Decay," defined as a set of four interrelated trends: an …

While conventional wisdom holds that partisan bias in US legislative elections results from
intentional partisan and racial gerrymandering, we demonstrate that substantial bias can …

American democracy over the last generation has had one defining attribute: the rise of
extreme partisan polarization. The aim of this Article is to explore the causes of this …

Both pundits and scholars have blamed increasing levels of partisan conflict and
polarization in Congress on the effects of partisan gerrymandering. We assess whether …

When incumbent legislators draw the districts from which they are elected, the conflicts of
interest are glaring: incumbents can and do gerrymander district lines to entrench …

The regression discontinuity (RD) design offers identification of causal effects under weak
assumptions, earning it a position as a standard method in modern political science …

Following the decennial census, each state in the US redraws its congressional and state
legislative district boundaries, which must satisfy various legal criteria. For example …

We analyze a bargaining situation in which preferences evolve over time and the previous
agreement becomes the next status quo. The endogeneity of the status quo exacerbates the …

State legislatures are tasked with drawing state and federal districts and administering
election law, among many other responsibilities. Yet state legislatures are themselves …