Teemu Lyytikainen and Janne Tukiainen (VATT): Voters are Rational. Giri Parameswaran (Haverford): Misinformed Voters and the Politics of the Slippery Slope. Adrian Miroiu (SNSPA): Experiments in Political Science: The Case of the Voting Rules. Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl (Chicago): Voting Squared: Quadratic Voting in Democratic Politics. Michael D. Martinez (Florida): The Resurgent American Voter, 1996-2012. Guy-Uriel E. Charles (Duke) and Luis E. Fuentes-Rohwer (Indiana): State's Rights, Last Rites, and Voting Rights; and The Voting Rights Act in Winter: The Death of a Superstatute. Keith G. Bentele and Erin E. O'Briena (UMass): Jim Crow 2.0? Why States Consider and Adopt Restrictive Voter Access Policies (and more: “factors tied to voting restriction bills are ‘basically all racial’”). Geoff Kennedy reviews Wrestling with Democracy: Voting Systems as Politics in the Twentieth-Century West by Dennis Pilon. The first chapter from Who Votes Now? Demographics, Issues, Inequality, and Turnout in the United States by Jan E. Leighley and Jonathan Nagler. Americans want to fire their congressmen — here’s why they won’t. On the face of it: Maria Konnikova on the psychology of electability. The IRS moves to limit dark money, but enforcement still a question. Seth Masket on what to do about campaign finance: Unlimited political contributions are the new reality — once we accept that maybe we can start to figure out the complicated relationship between money and politics. Eyes on the courts: Richard Hansen on why 2014 will be pivotal for voting rights.
