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EXECUTIVE DECISION: Allegheny County executive race a generational decision between Innamorato, Rockey

Allegheny County executive candidates Sara Innamorato, left, and Joe Rockey during a televised debate on WTAE-TV. (Photo by Clare Sheedy/PublicSource)   Sara Innamorato aims to continue...

Is Allegheny County politics going tribal? Centrist traditions to be tested Nov. 7.

  POSTED IN EXECUTIVE DECISION: Candidates for county executive try to portray each other as representing political extremes, even as voters weigh moderation’s value and polling...

Why Andrew Yang and George Soros are bringing national heat to the Allegheny County DA race

Port Authority and Pittsburgh police respond to a stabbing along Smithfield Street on Thursday, March 2, 2023, in Downtown. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource) A progressive...

When Confederate-glorifying monuments went up in the South, voting in Black areas went down

by Alexander N. Taylor, George Mason University Confederate monuments burst into public consciousness in 2015 when a shooting at a historically Black church in Charleston,...

A brief history of Georgia’s runoff voting – and how this year’s contest between two Black men is a sign of progress

by Joshua Holzer, Westminster College In the U.S., all elections are administered by the states. But not all states use the same rules. Georgia uses a...

Young voters are more likely to skip midterm elections than presidential races

Getty Images by Jan Leighley, American University School of Public Affairs Midterm elections typically have lower voter turnout than presidential elections, but there is another crucial...

Most voters skipped ‘in person on Election Day’ when offered a choice of how and when to vote

Most voters in the 2020 presidential election didn’t stand in line at their polling place, as these Nevada voters did. AP Photo/John Locher by Paul Herrnson,...

Partisan or not? Local election officials don’t tilt elections in favor of their party’s candidates

by Joshua Ferrer, University of California, Los Angeles In the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and the spread of rumors that the election...

Counties with more civic engagement have more women on company boards

by Siri Terjesen, Florida Atlantic University; Hanna Silvola, Hanken School of Economics, and Mansoor Afzali, Hanken School of Economics The Research Brief is a short...

Why are so many young, minority, and low-income Americans not voting?

In 2008, more than 57 percent of the population who were of voting age turned out to vote. That was the year Barack Obama...

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