Kenneth J. Meier

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    In majority Democratic school districts, African Americans gain significantly more representation in at-large elections.

In majority Democratic school districts, African Americans gain significantly more representation in at-large elections.

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Research on electoral structure has often touted single member districts to be beneficial for achieving minority representation.  In a study of a national sample of school board elections between 2002 and 2008, Kenneth J. Meier and Amanda Rutherford find an unanticipated trend—African Americans are now over-represented on school boards with at-large elections when they are a minority of the […]

June 9th, 2014|Amanda Rutherford, Democracy and culture, Elections and party politics across the US, Kenneth J. Meier|0 Comments|
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Business-targeted tax cuts do not improve state economies

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On the surface, cutting business taxes would appear to be an obvious way for states to attract new business investment, and therefore growth and jobs. Soledad Artiz Prillaman and Kenneth J. Meier have studied business tax incentives across the 50 states over the past 30 years, and find that this is largely not the case, and that tax reductions […]

April 16th, 2014|Economy, Kenneth J. Meier, Soledad Artiz Prillaman|1 Comment|
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