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CSAP Hosts a Conversation with U.S. Archivist Colleen Shogan

February 7, 2024
Former graduate student, Colleen Shogan (Ph.D. ‘02), returned to the Yale campus in her new role as the 11th Archivist of the United States for a public conversation with her...
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"Define-Combine Procedure" Reduces Partisan Bias in U.S. District Maps

January 30, 2024
Kevin DeLuca, CSAP faculty affiliate and assistant professor of political science, collaborated with Maxwell Palmer of Boston University and Benjamin Schneer of Harvard...
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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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CSAP Faculty Affiliate Kevin DeLuca on Redistricting, Voting Rights, and Media

August 28, 2023
As a new resident faculty fellow with the Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) and a faculty affiliate in the Center for the Study of American Politics (CSAP),...
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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...