This essay recounts the history of election dysfunction in the United States over the past ten years with an eye toward lessons it can teach the rest of the world. The U.S. experience has been plagued by three deeply rooted problems, each of which exists in other countries, but which, in...

This paper provides a preliminary analysis of the increase in the residual vote rate from 2012 to 2016, when it increased from 0.99% to 1.87% nationwide. It is reasonable to assume that this spike in the residual vote rate is due to a rise in abstentions. However, there are currently other...

COVID-19 caused worldwide disruption to virtually every aspect of human life, including elections. This study assesses the impact of COVID death rates, convenience voting policies, and partisanship on voter behavior in the 2020 U.S. general election. Using a new data set comprising county and...