As the midterms approach, constitutional law scholar Bertrall Ross examines the legal disputes and what they mean for voter access and public trust.
A recent UVA study, led by the nonpartisan Karsh Institute of Democracy, looked at the effects of changing Virginia’s voting structure to put state and federal candidates on the same ballot.
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With Election Day approaching, UVA’s Center for Politics sizes up the races that will decide control of the U.S. House and Senate.
A political conversation can end without anyone changing their mind and still make a difference. Karsh Institute Faculty Fellow Rachel Wahl examines how in her new book, “Keeping Our Enemies Closer: Political Dialogue in Polarized Democracies.”
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"At a board meeting of the Karsh Institute last week, I was reminded of Thomas Jefferson’s ambitious vision for higher education in the new republic," wrote Karsh Institute Advisory Board member John Bridgeland.
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Karsh Institute Faculty Fellow Rachel Wahl examines political dialogue in her new book, "Keeping Our Enemies Closer." Her research shows that bringing people with opposing views together has mixed results.
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BLSA and ACS hosted “Voting Rights after Callais,” with guest speakers Michael Gilbert, director of UVA Law’s Karsh Center for Law and Democracy, and Melody Barnes, the founding executive director of UVA’s Karsh Institute of Democracy.
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A team of researchers led by the Karsh Institute of Democracy’s Democracy and Capitalism Lab and UVA Darden’s Institute for Business in Society assembled the data to help define and measure capitalism worldwide.
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From Denmark’s extensive social programs to China’s economic restrictions, a new resource measures how capitalism takes different forms around the world, and what those differences can tell us about democracy.
Prioritizing understanding over persuasion "has the potential to diminish the desire to win at any cost, even costs to democratic processes," said Karsh Institute Faculty Fellow Rachel Wahl.
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For more than a century, the White House press corps has run on norms rather than law. That is now being tested in court.