Stories by Michael Latner

Michael Latner is a professor of political science at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and a senior fellow of voting rights at the Union of Concerned Scientists' Center for Science and Democracy. He is co-author of Gerrymandering the States: Partisanship, Race, and the Transformation of American Federalism (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and Gerrymandering in America: The House of Representatives, the Supreme Court, and the Future of Popular Sovereignty (Cambridge University Press, 2016).

Policy

Electoral Engineering and the Freedom to Vote

Securing basic voting rights should take priority over more elaborate reforms

October 20, 2021 — Michael Latner, Charles Smith, Alex Keena and Anthony McGann | Opinion

Politics

We Must Fight Restrictions on Voting Rights

National Voter Registration Day reminds us of the urgent need to protect electoral integrity

September 28, 2021 — Michael Latner and Jean Schroedel | Opinion

Behavior

A Political Scientist’s Guide to Following the Election

It’ll be messy, but we have the tools and the technology to ensure that everyone has an equal opportunity to cast a vote and have it counted

October 6, 2020 — Michael Latner | Opinion

Policy

The Science of Elections

If we want to protect the integrity of scientific inquiry, we must protect democracy

November 6, 2018 — Michael Latner