Campaign

Do (Nasty) Campaigns Mobilize?

High turnout matters. It is one of the three key indicators of good democratic performance of a country as famously identified by Powell,[1] and its absence is often seen as an indicator of generalized political […]

2020 Elections

Your Guide to the Indiana Primaries

Voting can be a complicated process, especially during an unprecedented global pandemic, which has already disrupted, and will continue to disrupt, our electoral processes. This guide to the Indiana primary elections will answer questions ranging from […]

2020 Elections

Using COVID-19 and Connecticut’s Primary Elections to Teach Political Science Concepts

Connecticut’s 2020 primary election is a great example of electoral politics to include in a variety of classroom lessons. For public policy courses, it showcases how focusing events, defined as “an event that is sudden; relatively uncommon; can be reasonably defined as harmful […]

2020 Elections

Heartland Dispatch: With Sanders Out, Kansans’ Primary Attention Turns to House, Senate, and State Races

Senator Bernie Sanders withdrew his candidacy for the Democratic Presidential nomination this week, making former Vice President Joe Biden the presumptive party nominee to face President Trump this fall. Are the primaries over, then? Not […]

2020 Elections

Political Participation in Immigrant Communities

Political participation is one of our most important civic duties. It is part of the original contract we the people agreed to when we founded this country, both native born citizens and immigrants. However, the vote is […]