Voter Registration

This article compiles unique Louisiana registration records to assess how historical restrictions affected Black voter registration. It tracks registration rates from post‑Reconstruction onward and compares parishes that applied the Understanding Clause with those that did not. The authors report that Black registration rates fell by about 30 percentage points in parishes using the clause, while white registration changed little—highlighting stark racial disparities in enforcement.

This paper asks whether a high-profile focusing event — the murder of George Floyd — changed citizens’ political behavior by bringing new prospective voters into the system. Using nationwide voter file data for the United States, the authors apply a regression discontinuity in time design and provide replication code for their analysis. They focus on changes in new voter registrations around the event and examine how effects vary across subgroups.

Migrants in rapidly urbanizing developing-country cities vote far less than local-born residents. Three potential explanations were tested: strong socioeconomic ties to origin regions, administrative hurdles to enrollment that hit newcomers harder, and political ostracism by antimigrant elites.

This study examines how the politically contentious Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 influenced voter registration following implementation. By analyzing cross-state differences created by a key Supreme Court ruling, researchers found that counties in states expanding Medicaid saw significantly higher voter registration rates than similar non-expansion counties.

This article examines voter registration rates among transgender and gender non-conforming individuals, despite legal frameworks prohibiting discrimination based on gender identity.

We ran a large-scale experimental intervention during the 2012 French elections. Data & Methods Our study involved randomly assigning 20,500 apartments to different canvassing groups.

Ecological inference—inferring turnout and vote choice for racial groups from aggregate election returns and neighborhood racial composition—can generate aggregation bias that distorts race-specific turnout and vote-share estimates. A different strategy is to predict individual-level ethnicity from voter registration records and then aggregate those predictions.

In the post-Voting Rights Act era, increased black voter registration dramatically reshaped southern politics. However, contrary to conventional wisdom about African American gains in political power, this empirical analysis reveals a surprising finding: higher rates of black voter registration were associated with less generous state welfare policies.