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[ June 9, 2026 ] 2026 Short Course: Connecting Campaign Finance Scholars and Reformers: Building a Research Agenda APSA Annual Meeting
[ June 9, 2026 ] Meet DFP Spring Fellow, Cameron Thomas-Shah, Johns Hopkins University Diversity Fellowship Program
[ June 8, 2026 ] 2026 Short Course Highlight: Causal Inference with Observational Data APSA Annual Meeting
[ June 8, 2026 ] Meet DFP Spring Fellow, Elina Rodriguez, University of California, Berkeley Diversity Fellowship Program
[ June 5, 2026 ] 2026 Short Course: How to Use NVivo for Qualitative Data Analysis APSA Annual Meeting
[ June 5, 2026 ] Meet DFP Spring Fellow, Eman Alahmadi, The University of Texas at Austin Diversity Fellowship Program

Will the Recent Black Lives Matter Protests Lead to Police Reform?

August 12, 2020 Comments Off

On May 25th, a police officer killed George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. Since then, protests, marches, and demonstrations have taken place around the country, bringing renewed attention […]

Unfair Treatment by the Police May Matter Even More Than We Thought When It Comes to African Americans and the Legal System: Lessons from ‘Black and Blue’

July 28, 2020 Comments Off

In 2018, we published Black and Blue: How African Americans Judge the U.S. Legal System (Oxford University Press). Based on a nationally representative survey of African Americans, this book presents one of the most comprehensive […]

Could Slave Raids Have Strengthened States? Evidence from Eastern Europe

June 3, 2026 0

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. This piece, written by Deborah Saki, covers the new article by Volha Charnysh [...]
Criminal Communication: Public Representations, Repertoires, and Regimes of Criminal Governance

May 12, 2026 0

Criminal Communication: Public Representations, Repertoires, and Regimes of Criminal Governance By Philip Luke Johnson, Flinders University Criminal actors are widely assumed to maintain a low profile, exerting power through coercion and clandestine networks. Scholarship addressing [...]
Bent into Submission? Domestic Investors and Populist Governments

May 11, 2026 0

Bent into Submission? Domestic Investors and Populist Governments By Alison L. Johnston, Oregon State University and Juliet Johnson, McGill University Do populist governments bend their economic policies to the preferences of bondholders? Populist governments should [...]

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