Publications by authors named "Christopher Warshaw"
Article Synopsis
- - A new database has been created containing data on approximately 78,000 candidates from 57,000 local electoral contests in the U.S. over the past 30 years.
- - It covers seven different types of local political offices in medium and large cities and counties, providing a comprehensive public resource for understanding local elections.
- - The database includes detailed partisan and demographic information about candidates, along with election outcomes, enabling more research into representation and local government elections.
In the United States, state governments have been the locus of action for addressing climate change. However, the lack of a holistic measure of state climate policy has prevented a comprehensive assessment of state policies' effectiveness. Here, we assemble information from 25 individual policies to develop an aggregate index of state climate policies from 2000-2020.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBetween early March and 1 August 2020, COVID-19 took the lives of more than 150,000 Americans. Here, we examine the political consequences of the COVID-19 epidemic using granular data on COVID-19 fatalities and the attitudes of the American public. We find that COVID-19 has led to substantial damage for President Trump and other Republican candidates.
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