Kendall Bailey

Northeastern University | NEU · Department of Political Science

Congressional redistricting follows each decennial Census, often with partisan influence. Redistricting in the Commonwealth of Virginia has rested with the state legislature and produced more one-party congressional districts than competitive elections. Given the state’s propensity for gerrymandering, the 2022 redistricting process was outsourced t...

Objectives This article investigates the impact of racial politics on White House visits by professional sports teams. Given increasing political polarization and varying racial compositions of major sports leagues, we hypothesize increased visits and objections over time while the prevalence of nonwhite players in a league detrimentally affects vi...

Key [1949. Southern Politics in State and Nation . New York: A.A. Knopf] observed voters tend to support local candidates at higher rates, a phenomenon he termed “friends-and-neighbors” voting. In a recent study, Panagopoulos et al. [2017. Political Behavior 39 (4): 865–82] deployed a nonpartisan randomized field experiment to show that voters in t...