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About Ursula Hackett
I am Reader (Associate Professor) in Politics at Royal Holloway, University of London. I work on American Political Development (APD), public policy and law, federalism, education, and religion and politics. My award-winning book 'America's Voucher Politics' is out with Cambridge University Press. My writing guide 'Brilliant Essays' is published by Macmillan Study Skills, and my YouTube channel is How to Write Brilliant Essays.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).
NBN Episodes hosted by Ursula:
November 19, 2024
Developing Scholars
Over the past fifty years, debates concerning race and college admissions have focused primarily on the policy of affirmative action at elite institut…
June 25, 2024
The Political Development of American Debt Relief
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…
April 21, 2024
America’s New Racial Battle Lines
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…
October 31, 2023
When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People
A deep and thought-provoking examination of crisis politics and their implications for power and marginalization in the United States. From the clim…
May 6, 2022
The Advantage of Disadvantage
Does protest influence political representation? If so, which groups are most likely to benefit from collective action? The Advantage of Disadvant…
April 25, 2022
Movements and Parties
How do social movements intersect with the agendas of mainstream political parties? When they are integrated with parties, are they coopted? Or are th…
February 21, 2022
Why Bad Policies Spread (and Good Ones Don't)
Building on a deep theoretical foundation and drawing on numerous examples, Volden and Shipan examine how policies spread across the American states i…
November 17, 2021
The Judicial Tug of War
Why have conservatives decried 'activist judges'? And why have liberals - and America's powerful legal establishment - emphasized qualifications and e…
October 6, 2021
The Limits of Party
To many observers, Congress has become a deeply partisan institution where ideologically-distinct political parties do little more than engage in legi…
August 23, 2021
Race to the Bottom
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…
August 18, 2021
Secular Surge
American society is rapidly secularizing – a radical departure from its historically high level of religiosity–and politics is a big part of the reaso…