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Ursula Hackett is Reader in Politics at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is the author of America’s Voucher Politics: How Elites Learned to Hide the State (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
A political history of the rise and fall of American debt relief. Americans have a long history with debt. They also have a long history of mobilizing…
What is happening to the politics of race in America? In America’s New Racial Battle Lines: Protect Versus Repair (U Chicago Press, 2024), Rogers Sm…
A deep and thought-provoking examination of crisis politics and their implications for power and marginalization in the United States. From the clim…
Does protest influence political representation? If so, which groups are most likely to benefit from collective action? The Advantage of Disadvant…
How do social movements intersect with the agendas of mainstream political parties? When they are integrated with parties, are they coopted? Or are th…
Building on a deep theoretical foundation and drawing on numerous examples, Volden and Shipan examine how policies spread across the American states i…
Why have conservatives decried 'activist judges'? And why have liberals - and America's powerful legal establishment - emphasized qualifications and e…
To many observers, Congress has become a deeply partisan institution where ideologically-distinct political parties do little more than engage in legi…
In Race to the Bottom: How Racial Appeals Work in American Politics (U Chicago Press, 2020), LaFleur Stephens-Dougan argues that we focus on the use o…
American society is rapidly secularizing – a radical departure from its historically high level of religiosity–and politics is a big part of the reaso…