Episodes

  • How Much Do Election Law Changes Affect Voter Turnout? Featuring Justin Grimmer

    How Much Do Election Law Changes Affect Voter Turnout? Featuring Justin Grimmer
    Jul 18 2024
    Do voter ID laws affect turnout? Does no-excuse absentee voting change electoral results? How would you find out? Hoover senior fellow Justin Grimmer goes through the research literature to separate fact from fiction. Read "Evidence vs. Hyperbole: The Relationship between Election Laws and the Health of Democracy” by Justin Grimmer and Eitan Hersh. Read “How Election Rules Affect Who Wins” by Justin Grimmer and Eitan Hersh. Cited Paper: “Do non-citizens vote in U.S. elections?” Richmond, Chattha, and Earnest. Electoral Studies, 2014.
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    38 mins
  • Why Can't All States Call Their Results on Election Night? Featuring Ben Ginsberg

    Why Can't All States Call Their Results on Election Night? Featuring Ben Ginsberg
    Jun 28 2024
    Ben Ginsberg provides an overview of how election rules differ state-by-state and discusses mail-in voting, ballot processing rules, and the impact of federalism on election administration. Listen to Ben Ginsberg's podcast "Saints, Sinners, and Salvageables" here: https://www.hoover.org/saints-sinners-salvageables Read "Restoring Confidence in American Elections" by Bruce E. Cain and Benjamin Ginsberg (PDF) All National Conference of State Legislatures tables of election rules here: https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/voting-outside-the-polling-place
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    38 mins
  • Polling on Policy: What do voters know? Want to know? Think others should know?

    Polling on Policy: What do voters know? Want to know? Think others should know?
    Jun 13 2024
    The Tennenbaum Program for Fact-Based Policy surveyed American voters about their knowledge of the federal budget and social safety net programs. MIchael Boskin discusses survey results from his paper "Policy Knowledge in the Public."
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    35 mins