Michael W. Sances

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    Cities with more African Americans rely more on fines for revenue

Cities with more African Americans rely more on fines for revenue

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The rise of the Black Lives Matter movement following the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, also focused attention on how police and city officials use fines taken from communities of color to fund city administration. In new research, which examined revenue data from more than 9,000 cities, Michael W. Sances and Hye Young You find that […]

Voter fraud is more believable when your candidate loses

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Recent years have seen many red states introduce new voter identification laws, with politicians often citing the need to maintain public confidence in the voting process as a justification. But is public confidence in voting driven by other, more subjective factors? In new research using election polling, Michael W. Sances and Charles Stewart find that voters are more likely […]

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