Women in the United States have outpaced men in both voter participation and educational attainment in recent decades. Since education is closely tied…

Abstract. The Trump administration’s ongoing effort to dismantle the US Department of Education marks the most significant federalism development in educat

Conservative education policy in the United States increasingly emphasizes school choice, decentralization, and parental authority. This chapter examines whether these priorities resonate equally acro...

Conservative education policy in the United States increasingly emphasizes school choice, decentralization, and parental authority. This chapter examines whether these priorities resonate equally acro...

Scholarship on LGBTQ+ politics often treats the LGBTQ+ community as a unified coalition, but do LGBTQ+ individuals identify with their specific subgroup or with the coalition broadly? I compare subgro...

What political and administrative resources contribute to the realization of rights in the United States? We examine this puzzle in the context of rights to education for students with disabilities by measuring the administrative ease of accessing local special education information: the extent to which governments actively reduce learning costs and make information accessible.

An introduction to some of my research and my new article out in Policy Studies Journal on how the "costs" of voting matter differently for individuals of different levels of education

Education in the U.S. has long been shaped by local school boards elected in nonpartisan contests, a structure intended to shield schools from broader political forces. Today, many states are consider...

What administrative and political features render spaces of political action publicly accessible? Drawing on Schattschneider's core elements of visibility and scope, we offer a framework to identify ...

Education is a vital tenet of a democratic society, equipping citizens with the skills necessary to self-govern. Individuals also experience K12 education policy consistently throughout their lives...

The APSA Best Poster Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best poster presented by a graduate student or early career scholar at the previous APSA Annual Meeting. Citation from the Award Committee: Jerry Jie Min (Harvard University) has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 APSA Best Poster Award for his poster, “Left Governments Offer More Tax Incentives to Foreign Investors Through International Treaties.” Chosen from among over 200 eligible posters presented by graduate students and early-career scholars at the APSA Annual Meeting, Min’s poster exemplified excellence across all four of our evaluation criteria: clarity and organization; research quality and rigor; relevance and impact; and presentation and engagement.

Prior to the 2024 US Presidential Election, APSA’s Diversity and Inclusion Programs Department issued a call for submissions, entitled 2024 APSA Post-Election Reflections, for a PSNow blog series of political science scholars who reflect on [...]

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Women in the United States have outpaced men in both voter participation and educational attainment in recent decades. Since education is closely tied to political participation, we consider these tre...

Isabel McMullen shares research on the demographics of public higher education boards and how representative they are of students and faculty.

A gay man with no known criminal record sought asylum in the U.S. He's since become one of 238 Venezuelan migrants deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration.

Americans who like to drink alcohol from Europe will have to spend lot more to indulge if the Trump administration makes good on its threats of steep tariffs.

Researchers whose federal grants have been terminated since the start of the Trump administration describe some of the myriad impacts.