Drive-thru voting may be an innovative and practical solution to increase voter turnout and participation at a relatively low cost. Much like drive-thru services for banking, picking up prescriptions, and […]
Author: Barry Edwards
Why Only 50% of Findings Can Be Replicated: Exploratory Thoughts
Thinking about the “replication crisis” in social sciences, I did some back-of-the-envelope type analysis of the probability that a statistically significant finding is true. The result I get is that […]
Why Did State Legislatures Give Up Power to Pick Presidential Electors?
The United States Constitution grants state legislatures the authority to determine the manner of selecting presidential electors. Per Article II, Section 1, “Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as […]
If It Bleeds, It Leads, but for How Long?
Several summers, I’ve taught a special topics course on the politics of gun control in the United States. The politics of gun control is characterized by what Robert Spitzer calls […]
Extra Time for SCOTUS Oral Arguments?
Political scientists have written extensively about the U.S. Supreme Court. There is a sizable literature, for example, on how the Court picks its cases. There is a variable that I […]