Hosting the FIFA World Cup games can prove a propaganda win for authoritarian nations. But the data suggests the tournament favors democracies.
- Professor of Political Science, LaGrange College
The ‘most divided’ Supreme Court ever may have been in 1941, when seven of the nine justices were New Deal supporters appointed by the same president, Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Michigan’s attorney general has charged 16 people in a fake electors plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Here’s how the Electoral College works.
President Biden outlined his achievements in key policy areas and sketched out his plans for the rest of his term in office.
Democrats have ridden the West to presidential electoral success since 1992, reversing their poor performances from the 1950s through the 1980s.
Sen. Raphael Warnock’s win over GOP challenger Herschel Walker had implications beyond Georgia – and offers a lesson in how far the state has come from its racist past.
Georgians appreciate the national attention from the runoff election, but the cost and tendency for a drop in turnout may lead to reform of the state’s ballot contests.
After years of gridlock, Congress passed significant gun control legislation for the first time in the last 30 years.
States with red flag laws saw fewer firearm deaths, on average, than states without them.
When presidents are seeking reelection, federal aid comes more often and more quickly.
Civics education is not boosting youth voting, volunteering or even scores on academic tests about government – and may be related to QAnon support.
Rev. Warnock became the first African American to defeat an incumbent senator and the first African American to win a US Senate seat without prior electoral experience.
Five scholars explain different aspects of the history, workings and effects of the Electoral College.
The Electoral College ignores a key democratic principle: one person, one vote.
How Georgia found its way past write-in votes cast by dead voters, spiked drinks served to lawmakers, changed locks on the executive office and a gun-toting man claiming to be the governor.
Many Supreme Court nomination battles depended on whether the president’s party also had control of the US Senate.
Asian Americans were engaged in an electoral realignment long before Kamala Harris was added to the 2020 Democratic ticket.
Can political prediction models pick the election winner better than the polls, the weather or Washington’s football team?
Internal party rules make it harder to attract independents, who make up about one-third of US voters.
In recent years, voters have shifted their views on issues based upon the positions of politicians – even when that shift clashes with their ideology.
After a foreign policy win, presidents usually enjoy a short-term poll boost. But that’s often followed by a long-term decline.
In 26 attempts, no African American has ever defeated an incumbent U.S. senator or governor.
When no one in Mississippi wins a majority of votes in an election, the legislature chooses the winner. This has led to white men winning over and over.
The popular opinion is that presidents win government shutdowns, but a review of polling evidence paints a different picture.
An analysis reveals that using terrorism may not be very effective in achieving long-term political goals, when compared to other peaceful means.
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