Elizabeth Mitchell Elder
@elizabethelder.bsky.social
Political scientist studying behavior, knowledge, & attitudes towards government. Currently @ Hoover Institution, formerly @ UC Berkeley.
Thank you, Chagai!!
December 5, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Thank you, Chagai!!
And if you just can’t get enough of this, stay tuned for my book coming out early next year! It traces how this dysfunction leaves voters cynical and mistrustful, even after coal companies have left town. Plus many more stories of wild company town corruption: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Company Towns
Reveals the deep, historical roots of public distrust in former mining areas in the US, shedding new light on the corrosive feedback loops that persist today. In Company Towns, Elizabeth Mitchell Elde...
press.uchicago.edu
December 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
And if you just can’t get enough of this, stay tuned for my book coming out early next year! It traces how this dysfunction leaves voters cynical and mistrustful, even after coal companies have left town. Plus many more stories of wild company town corruption: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
We see these findings as helping to explain a pattern we described in earlier work: white jurors' preferences have more influence over their jury's final decision. scholar.google.com/citations?vi...
The Effects of Racial Diversity in Citizen Decision-Making Bodies
CF Karpowitz, T Mendelberg, EM Elder, D Ribar, The Journal of Politics, 2024 - Cited by 2
scholar.google.com
January 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
We see these findings as helping to explain a pattern we described in earlier work: white jurors' preferences have more influence over their jury's final decision. scholar.google.com/citations?vi...