Party Primaries Must Go
A study from Christian Grose, “Reducing Legislative Polarization: Top-Two and Open Primaries Are Associated with More Moderate Legislators” was quoted in The Atlantic.
A study from Christian Grose, “Reducing Legislative Polarization: Top-Two and Open Primaries Are Associated with More Moderate Legislators” was quoted in The Atlantic.
Christian Grose was quoted by NBC News on the importance of independent commissions for redrawing voting districts.
Going into the 2020 election, popular fear of interference, fraud, or election meddling, means that leveraging the tools of rigorous social science is as important as ever.
Participants in the USC Bedrosian Center’s Symposium on Election Administration and Technology skillfully brought data, theory, and logic to bear on questions often driven by reflexive fear, anger, or confusion.
Roll Call quoted Sherry Bebitch Jeffe of the USC Price School on Kamala Harris’s 2010 victory in the race for California attorney general.
KCRW-FM’s “Press Play” interviewed Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the push for progressive district attorneys across the United States.
Another bonus episode! Host Lisa discusses Professor Manuel Pastor’s latest book, State of Resistance. The book looks at the last several decades of economic, social, and environmental transformations in California. Pastor then looks to the future to ask what these transformations can predict for the larger United States.
To listen to the Bedrosian Book Club discussion of State of Resistance click the arrow in the player on this post. Or you can download it and subscribe through ApplePodcasts, Soundcloud, Google Play, Stitcher or your favorite podcasting app!
Newsdayquoted Abby Woodof the USC Gould School on PAC money recipients. Abby Wood, an assistant professor of law, political science and public policy at the University of Southern California’s Gould School of Law, said the reality is that “PAC money is an incumbent game,” noting the top 50 PAC money Read more…
EdSourcequoted Sherry Bebitch Jeffeof the USC Price School on the campaign for state superintendent of public instruction in California. “This is going to be the most expensive election, period,” said Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a professor at the University of Southern California’s Sol Price School of Public Policy. Full article here
We’re six months away from one of the most consequential midterm elections in modern history, and Americans are fed up with Congress. Politicians have gotten a bad rap throughout history, but today’s legislators are setting record lows in approval ratings and public trust. What gives? Why do they disappoint us so often? Are they really ignoring our needs and demands, or are we misunderstanding the challenges they face?
In this episode, Sarah Anderson shows that it’s a little of both: politicians don’t listen to all constituents equally, but they also can’t just snap their fingers and fulfill our wishes.
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Courthouse News Service quoted Sherry Bebitch Jeffe of the USC Price School on how reliably Republican congressional districts in California have shifted.
Capital Public Radio quoted Sherry Bebitch Jeffe about the impact of fundraising on California’s gubernatorial race.
Fox & Hounds Daily published commentary by Sherry Bebitch Jeffe of the USC Price School and Doug Jeffe about the California gubernatorial race.
Capital Public Radio quoted Sherry Bebitch Jeffe of the USC Price School about California’s history of eccentric gubernatorial candidates.
by Jeremy Loudenback Next Tuesday, Los Angeles will take to the polls to confront one of its enduring stereotypes. Los Angeles, critics say, is a civic wasteland, a sprawling city still struggling to forge an identity for itself. Look no further than the last mayoral election, they might say. Only 20.8% Read more…
by Jeremy Loudenback In the 2008 presidential campaign, the much more prominent use of social media by Barack Obama’s campaign served to highlight his relevance and forward-looking perspective. But by 2012, the social-media gap had narrowed sharply, with Twitter and other social media becoming a contentious political battlefield for candidates from Read more…
by Justine Dodgen On October 26, Tunisia held free and fair elections to choose a new representative parliament for the first time since the Jasmine Revolution occurred in 2011. More than half of Tunisia’s population voted among thousands of candidates from more than 100 political parties for the People’s Assembly’s Read more…
by Jeremy Loudenback Today marks the most wide-open election for Los Angeles County Sheriff in more than a century. As the Los Angeles Times noted, Long Beach Police Chief Jim McDonnell is favored by many to win the county’s top law enforcement job, a rarity for an organization where most departing Read more…