American Politics

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Megan Ming Francis
Associate Professor
G. Alan and Barbara Delsman Associate Professor
Scott Lemieux
Teaching Professor
George Lovell
Professor
Sebastian Mayer
Instructor
Mark Alan Smith
Professor
Rebecca U. Thorpe
Associate Professor
John D. Wilkerson
Professor
Director, Center for American Politics and Public Policy

Latest News

Owen Oliver Brings Indigenous Lens to UW (March 11, 2021)
New Book published by Professor Ronald Libby, Political Science Alumnus (August 31, 2017)
FIUTS Lecture: Making Sense of the US Election (November 10, 2016)
Professors Parker & Smith Discuss the 2016 Election at Seattle Town Hall (September 29, 2016)
Understanding the Role of Religion in American Politics (June 27, 2016)

Related Research

Victor Menaldo and Nicolas Wittstock. 2024 "U.S. Innovation Inequality and Trumpism: The Political Economy of Technology Deserts in a Knowledge Economy." Cambridge University Press.
Fordham, R.F. (2024), Anti-Democratic Influence: The Effect of Citizens United on State Democratic Performance. Legislative Studies Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1111/lsq.12447
Goehrung, Ryan and Rachel Castellano. (2023). “Misrecognitions of Victimhood: Discretionary Power of Street-level Bureaucrats in Humanitarian Visas.” Law & Social Inquiry (First View): 1-30.
Thomas J. Bollyky, Emma Castro, et al [including Christopher Adolph]. 2023. "Assessing COVID-19 Pandemic Policies and Behaviours and their Economic and Educational Trade-offs across US States from Jan 1, 2020, to July 31, 2022: An Observational Analysis." The Lancet.
Fordham, Rachel Funk. 2022. “Automatic Voter Registration Report.” Data for Progress, March 18.
Himansuh, Zade, Wack, Morgan, Zhang, Yuanrui, Starbird, Kate, Calo, Ryan and Jevin West. “Auditing Google’s Search Headlines as a Potential Gateway to Misleading Content: Evidence from the 2020 U.S. Election.” Journal of Online Trust and Safety, 1, 4, 2022. https://doi.org/10.54501/jots.v1i4.72
Kennedy, Ian, Wack, Morgan, Schafer, Joey, Beers, Andrew, Spiro, Emma and Kate Starbird. “Repeat Spreaders and Election Delegitimization: A Comprehensive Dataset of Misinformation Tweets from the 2020 U.S. Election.” Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, Vol. 2, 2022.
Carmack M, Dolšak N, Prakash A (2022) Electoral appeal of climate policies: The Green New Deal and the 2020 U.S. House of Representatives elections. PLOS Clim 1(6): e0000043. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000043
Megan Ming Francis, John Fabian Witt. "Movement Capture or Movement Strategy? A Critical Race History Exchange on the Beginnings of Brown v. Board." Yale Journal of Law and Humanities. Vol 31, Issue 2, 2021: pp. 520-545
Ainsley, Caitlin. 2021. “Federal Reserve Appointments and the Politics of Senate Confirmation.” PublicChoice 190, 93–110.