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Gabriel Lenz - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
US cities continue to experience a criminal justice nightmare with high rates of interpersonal violence, police violence, and incarceration. When did this nightmare start? Why did it start? In preliminary work, I've found that this nightmare appears to have begun in Jim Crow southern cities around 1900. This finding suggests...
Social SciencesGabriel Lenz - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Unions are one of the few democratic institutions within the workplace. However, the institutional structure of unions can encourage or constrain democracy within unions. I am interested in investigating the inner workings of union locals by collecting data on union local constitutions and bylaws, and collective bargaining agreements. Additionally, unions...
Social SciencesGabriel Lenz - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Research apprentices will assist with a project studying the racial identity and racial attitudes of white Democrats. This group has become markedly more liberal on race-related issues over the past decade, and scholars don’t know exactly why. This projects help to explain this shift by exploring how white survey...
Social SciencesGabriel Lenz - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project has two parts. Part 1 looks at how the news media shapes policy outcomes and whether disparities in coverage lead to policy inequity. Can we show convincing evidence that news coverage of pedestrian fatalities leads to a change in local transportation policy? Are certain communities more likely to...
Social Sciences