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CSAP Predoctoral Program Offers Community, Mentoring, and a Crash Course in Research

January 16, 2024
As a CSAP predoctoral fellow at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Ja’nae Jackson works closely with her mentor, Assistant Professor Allison Harris. She...
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Substance Over Loyalty: Why Americans Prefer Members of Their Own Political Party

August 16, 2023
In a paper published online last month by The American Journal of Political Science, Gregory Huber, director of the Center for the Study of American Politics and chair of the...
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Managing Democracy: A Conversation with ISPS Faculty Fellow Ian Turner

July 11, 2023
Maybe money in politics is not such a huge problem? What drives the U.S. federal bureaucracy? Is it really so bad for democracy if highly partisan voters stick with their...
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Racial Identity Explains Presidential Vote Choices More than Geography

July 6, 2023
In the first study of racial voting pattens to examine every U.S. congressional district, CSAP faculty affiliate Shiro Kuriwaki and his colleagues found that race explained...
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Partisan Gerrymandering Mostly Cancels Out at National Level

June 13, 2023
In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Yale’s CSAP faculty affiliate Shiro Kuriwaki and his colleagues at Harvard University...
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Testing the effects of partisan media on viewers' attitudes

April 13, 2022
Millions of Americans count right-leaning Fox News as their primary source of information about politics and current events. A new working paper co-authored by Yale political...
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Fairness key to police officers gaining civilians’ respect

March 17, 2022
Nobody enjoys being stopped by the police. But civilians who believe the officer interacting with them is attempting to behave fairly are more likely to perceive the officer’...