Tag Archives: New Scholarship

“Associational Party-Building: A Path to Rebuilding Democracy”

November 21, 2022, 6:34 ampolitical parties, political polarization, UncategorizedNew ScholarshipTabatha Abu El-Haj

Didi Kuo (Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, Stanford University) and I are excited to share our new article, Associational Party-Building: A Path to Rebuilding Democracy, which is out today in the Columbia Law Review Forum.… Continue reading

“Making it easier for Black people to vote had unexpected consequences”

November 15, 2022, 6:48 pmVoting Rights ActNew ScholarshipTabatha Abu El-Haj

Nikita Lalwani at Monkey Cage has an interview with Nicholas Eubank and Adriane Fresh (Duke University), the authors of a provocative new study based on data showing that counties subject to Section 5 pre-clearance mandates under Voting Rights Act would… Continue reading

“Laboratories of Democratic Backsliding”

October 2, 2022, 6:15 amUncategorizedNew ScholarshipTabatha Abu El-Haj

Looking forward to reading Jake M. Grumbach‘s (Department of Political Science, University of Washington) new book, Laboratories Against Democracy: How National Parties Transformed State Politics, which was profiled a few weeks ago on NPR. In the meanwhile,… Continue reading

African-American voting in North before 1860 may have been higher than previously understood

June 5, 2022, 5:46 amUncategorizedHistory of Suffrage, New ScholarshipTabatha Abu El-Haj

The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War (UNC Press 2021) by Van Gosse, Franklin and Marshall College. At a conference this week with nonlegal academics, I was made aware of this new… Continue reading

Sellers: The 2021 Redistricting Cycle Will Disparately Impact Black Communities

December 9, 2021, 7:59 amredistrictingNew ScholarshipTabatha Abu El-Haj

Joshua Sellers’ new article “Race, Reckoning, Reform, and the Limits of the Law of Democracy” is a timely reminder to all of us that the consequences of redistricting are not just about the health of our democracy. Partisan… Continue reading

1982 Amendments to VRA–New Article

December 2, 2021, 10:04 amVoting Rights ActNew ScholarshipTabatha Abu El-Haj

A new article by Richard Johnson, Queen Mary, University of London explores conflicts with the Reagan administration over the 1982 amendments to the Voting Rights Act. It pushes back against the view that Republican support can be explained by the… Continue reading