Researching the Impact of Gun Acquisition on Public Opinion Post-Mass Shootings
This essay explores a potential research idea aimed at understanding how the legality of a mass shooter’s gun acquisition influences...
Beyond Gerrymandering: Establishing a Compactness Benchmark for Redistricting
Evaluating the compactness of political districts is a crucial yet complex task in the redistricting process. Although a substantial amount...
Replication and Transparency in Empirical Legal Studies
Replication and transparency are fundamental to the advancement of scientific knowledge, including in the field of empirical legal studies. To...
Thinking about Drive Thru Voting
Drive-thru voting may be an innovative and practical solution to increase voter turnout and participation at a relatively low cost....
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...
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,...
Now Dumber for Reading Supreme Court Opinions
When I read a Supreme Court opinion like Brown v. Davenport decision, 142 S. Ct. 1510 (2022), I can't help...
Effects of Using AI in Political Campaigns
Artificial intelligence is a hot topic. I'm not researching implications of AI for politics, but have questions I'd like to...
Racial Segregation in American Prisons: How Widespread?
Racial segregation seems to be standard practice in prison. Prisoners are assigned to cells or cell block based on their...
Simple Way to Reduce Bias in Teaching Evaluations?
Existing research has highlighted the inherent biases in students' evaluations of teaching. These biases tend to work against women and...
