The Federal Election Commission (FEC) (formally created in 1974 when Congress amended the Federal Election Campaign Act) is charged with the burdensome role of administering and enforcing federal election laws. Comprised of six voting commissioners, the FEC by law can have no more than three members of the same political party and in practice is balanced between three voting Democrats and three...

The Democratic and Republican Parties both make strong claims that their policies benefit racial and ethnic minorities. These claims have, however, received little systematic empirical assessment. This is an important omission, because democracy rests on the ability of the electorate to evaluate the responsiveness of those who govern. We assess Democrats’ and Republicans’ claims by compiling ce...

In this work, we study the use of Twitter by House, Senate and gubernatorial candidates during the midterm (2010) elections in the U.S. Our data includes almost 700 candidates and over 690k documents that they produced and cited in the 3.5 years leading to the elections. We utilize graph and text mining techniques to analyze differences between Democrats, Republicans and Tea Party candidates, a...

Jesudason and Weitz's article examines two public policy debates in California, where both sides of the debate used similar language that had the potential to be detrimental to women. Specifically, they show how anti-abortion crusaders in California used similar language to describe why women's rights should be curtailed as pro-choice advocates use when fighting for more choice and privacy for ...

Labor unions play a central role in the Democratic party coalition, providing candidates with voters, volunteers, and contributions. Has the recent decline of organized labor hurt Democrats? We use the enactment of right-to-work laws—which weaken unions by removing closed shop protections—to estimate the effect of unions on politics from 1980 to 2016. Comparing counties on either side of a stat...

We examine political polarization over climate change within the American public by analyzing data from 10 nationally representative Gallup Polls between 2001 and 2010. We find that liberals and Democrats are more likely to report beliefs consistent with the scientific consensus and express personal concern about global warming than are conservatives and Republicans. Further, the effects of edu...

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Hong Kong has seen an upheaval in recent years. From the protests over extradition law to National Security Law, these are a response ever-encroaching hand of Beijing on political rights Kong. After Law was implemented, Kong’s freedom almost gone. One by one, pro-democracy protesters, opposition parliament members, and media being targeted repressed. Despite numerous riots, SAR government perse...