Barry Burden and Robert Yablon Write about Supreme Court Gerrymandering Case in The Hill
Barry Burden and Robert Yablon discuss the possible outcomes of the SCOTUS gerrymandering case that centers on a case from Wisconsin.
at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Barry Burden and Robert Yablon discuss the possible outcomes of the SCOTUS gerrymandering case that centers on a case from Wisconsin.
Barry Burden contends that same-day registration can be an additional safeguard against election tampering. He is an expert in election administration.
David Canon, Barry Burden, Michael Wagner, talk with WPR about races around the country, the DNC’s superdelegates, and the Wisconsin governor’s race media coverage. Barry Burden and David Canon are expert in elections and election administration. Michael Wagner is an expert in political communication. They are all available for interviews.
Barry Burden explains in Vox that poll workers must carefully count and tally all the votes after the polls close, ensuring accuracy before delivering or reporting them to another elected official or the county clerk. He also talks about how ballots in the U.S. are much longer in comparison to ballots in other countries, adding to …
Young Mie Kim, two graduate student affiliates, and other researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison released a study that documents how unknown groups on Facebook targeted Americans with divisive political ads in the 2016 election. In the first large-scale analysis of who ran political ads and who was targeted on Facebook leading up to 2016 …
David Canon is a professor of political science and an expert in partisan realignments, election administration, and political careers. He is available for interviews.
Barry Burden and Yoshikuni Ono find that women are more likely to win nominations running in Democratic rather than in Republican primaries. After presenting survey respondents with randomly generated fictional candidates, the results show that gender played a role in the generated contests where two candidates had the same party. Burden and Ono hypothesize that this …
Lewis Friedland describes Sinclair Broadcast Group, the country’s largest local television broadcast group as “propaganda.” The company, which owns mores more than 190 stations, was criticized for requiring local news anchors to read an identical promotional advertising script that criticized “false news” and “fake stories.” Lewis Friedland is a professor in the School of Journalism and …
Robert Yablon talks about the importance of finding a plaintiff who has been injured to bring a case against Governor Scott Walker for not calling for a special election after two vacancies. In Newton v. Walker, the plaintiffs, voters who live in the districts, are trying to convince a judge that state law requires the governor …
The New York Times featured excerpts from Byron Shafer’s book, Quiet Revolution, which highlights how political reforms of the 1960s limited Democratic efforts to address inequality. His book recounts the story of a hidden revolution within both parties that changed mechanism of delegate selection and, as a result, presidential nominations. Shafer contends that this revolution without fanfare brought about …