The issue of diversity on university campuses is now highly politicized in the United States. This paper advances our understanding of student attitudes toward this contentious issue using fully randomized conjoint analysis, a method recently developed to measure multidimensional preferences...

In recent years, concerns about misinformation in the media have skyrocketed. President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that various news outlets are disseminating "fake news" for political purposes. But when the information contained in mainstream media news reports provides no clear clues...

To what extent does exposure to immigration condition the types of immigrants citizens are willing to admit? Extending the conjoint approach adopted by Hainmueller and Hopkins (2015), this study investigates whether the admission preferences of French natives vary based on personal exposure to...

What difference does it make if the state makes people vote? The question is central to normative debates about the rights and duties of citizens in a democracy, and to contemporary policy debates in a number of Latin American countries over what actions states should take to encourage electoral...

Although the value of diversity — in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic status —to the U.S. military has been subject to debate, preferences for diversity at educational institutions for the military officers are rarely examined systematically. To address this, we...

Virtually all of the world’s polities have historically excluded most citizens from political power. By 2011, over 70 had taken measures to reverse this exclusion: they adopted candidate quotas and reserved seats for women, ethnic minorities, and/or subordinate racial groups. Though we know a...

This paper attempts to account for cross-national and cross-temporal patterns of government action on violence against women. Our theoretical approach focuses on the interaction between the mobilization of women's movements and the institutional context. But, we argue, the balance of domestic...