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Election administration harms and ballot design: A study of Florida's 2018 United States Senate race

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract We introduce a typology of election administration harms and apply it to empirically study the consequences of ballot design. Our typology distinguishes between individual, electoral, and systemic harms. Together, it clarifies why ballot design can be a particular vulnerability in election administration.
Michael Morse   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Populism and the rule of law: The importance of institutional legacies

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Existing work sees populist governments undermining the rule of law because they seek to dismantle institutional constraints on their personalistic plebiscitarian rule. We argue that populist rulers pose a greater threat to legal impartiality, equality, and compliance when they face a legacy of weak rule of law.
Andreas Kyriacou, Pedro Trivin
wiley   +1 more source

Peers, equals, and jurors: New data and methods on legal equality in Leveller thought

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract We consider the Levellers' conception of equality relative to their contemporaries during the Civil War(s) period. We compile a corpus of hundreds of seventeenth−century pamphlets and combine this with novel word embedding techniques trained on millions of Early Modern English documents to make statements about word “meanings.” We focus on ...
Melissa Schwartzberg, Arthur Spirling
wiley   +1 more source

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