What Does International Experience Tell Us About Regulatory Consolidation?

Describes the integrated, twin peaks, functional, and institutional approaches to financial regulation and draws lessons from how Canada's, the United Kingdom's, Australia's, and other countries' regulatory structures have fared in the financial crisis

The Effect of the Voting Rights Act on Enfranchisement: Evidence from North Carolina

Replication material for "The Effect of the Voting Rights Act on Enfranchisement: Evidence from North Carolina

The Effect of the Voting Rights Act on Enfranchisement: Evidence from North Carolina

Replication material for "The Effect of the Voting Rights Act on Enfranchisement: Evidence from North Carolina

Replication Data for: Enfranchisement and Incarceration After the 1965 Voting Rights Act

Replication Data for: Enfranchisement and Incarceration After the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Please see README for instructions

Replication Data for: The Political Economy of Suffrage Reform: The Great Reform Act of 1832

We argue that the Great Reform Act’s suffrage provisions were part of a broader effort to constrain the executive, thereby enabling an expansion in the state’s repressive capacity. When they came to power, the Whigs first increased parliament’s power over the purse; and then bolstered its independence from the monarch and allied patronal peers by reforming parliamentary elections. These reforms to constrain the executive were followed almost immediately by substantial investments in the state’s policing capacity. Professional police forces had been stoutly opposed by the gentry since the Glorious Revolution on the grounds that they would unreasonably increase royal power. Once budgets and elections had been reformed at all levels of governance (national, municipal and county), taxpayers could be confident that their elected representatives would control the finances, and hence the behavior, of the new forces

Replication Data for "The Political Economy of Suffrage Reform: The Great Reform Act of 1832"

This set of files replicates the tables and figures in the paper "The Political Economy of Suffrage Reform: The Great Reform Act of 1832.

Polling place changes and political participation: evidence from North Carolina presidential elections, 2008–2016

AbstractHow do changes in Election Day polling place locations affect voter turnout? We study the behavior of more than 2 million eligible voters across three closely-contested presidential elections (2008–2016) in the swing state of North Carolina. Leveraging within-voter variation in polling place location change over time, we demonstrate that polling place changes reduce Election Day voting on average statewide. However, this effect is almost completely offset by substitution into early voting, suggesting that voters, on average, respond to a change in their polling place by choosing to vote early. While there is heterogeneity in these effects by the distance of the polling place change and the race of the affected voter, the fully offsetting substitution into early voting still obtains. We theorize this is because voters whose polling places change location receive notification mailers, offsetting search costs and priming them to think about the election before election day, driving early voting.</jats:p