If this seems all too predictable, you should know this, too: many North Carolina officers and police departments do not stop and search black drivers at higher rates than whites. That, it turns out, is the most significant observation in Suspect Citizens, a … Read more

At the 35th annual meeting of the Society for Political Methodology, 2018 UNC PhD Kelsey Shoub, now a post-doctoral fellow at The University of Virginia, won the award for the best applied methods poster, from over 100 presenters. Her presentation, “How Changing … Read more

On June 28, 2018, the US Supreme Court denied requests by two death row inmates from Mississippi to have their cases heard. Justice Stephen Breyer dissented from these decisions, citing a recent work by Prof. Frank Baumgartner along with UNC … Read more

Congratulations to Sarah Treul Roberts who has been selected as the 2018 recipient of the Honors Carolina’s Manekin Award for Teaching Excellence.  This award is given annually to a member of the UNC faculty nominated by Honors Carolina students.

Inexperienced candidates are becoming more common, but only in one party  Republicans are electing more inexperienced candidates than they used to, and more than Democrats By Sarah Treul and Rachel Porter ~ Apr 20, 2018, 4:10pm EDT for Vox