Journal Articles

America 101

How we let civic education slide—and why we need a crash course in the Constitution today.

Authored by: Eric Lane
– 10/01/08

Seeing Double Voting: An Extension of the Birthday Problem

We review and extend the Birthday Problem to find the probability that two persons in a given group share an exact birthdate and, in a related calculation, the expected number of matching birthdates in a group of a certain size.

Authored by: Michael P. McDonald and Justin Levitt
– 04/01/08

What Albany Could Learn from New York City

A model for meaningful campaign finance reform in action.

Authored by: Ciara Torres-Spelliscy
– 02/04/08

The Modern-Day Poll Tax

Despite expanded suffrage, a large segment of the American public is still barred from the political process because of felony convictions, resulting in the disenfranchisement of 5.3 million American citizens.

Authored by: Erika L. Wood and Neema Trivedi
– 06/30/07

Making Judicial Recusal More Rigorous

Of the emerging threats to judicial impartiality, perhaps most fundamental is the influence of money.

Authored by: James Sample and David Pozen