Choosing Racial Identity in the United States, 1880-1940
Emily Nix's paper documents that many black males experienced a change in racial classification to white in the United States, 1880 - 1940, while changes in racial classification were negligible for other races
William Resh (USC) with Christina Kinane (Yale) and Anne Joseph O'Connell (Stanford) will discuss some of the legal intricacies of the Vacancy Act, the strategic calculations that political actors might make regarding vacancies, and their impact on agency performance.
Part three in our series, Dividing Lines, will focus on redistricting voters in California. Bedrosian faculty affiliates, Anthony Orlando and Christian Grose will speak about Grose's co-authored research, The California Citizens Redistricting Commission: Fair Maps, Voting Rights, and Diversity.
PIPE Workshop: Aditya Dasgupta, UC Merced
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Explaining Rural Conservatism: Technological and Political Change in the Great Plains
Rural areas are conservative electoral strongholds in the United States and other advanced capitalist economies. But this was not the case historically. What explains the rise of rural conservatism?
The West has always been at the forefront of the American mind. From the early days of the Republic, when the vast area beyond the Appalachian Mountains spurred imagination, through the mid-19th century, when the vast plains beyond the Mississippi River beckoned those seeking a new start, the West has Read more…