Kevin Morris

@KevinTMorris
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Researcher at the Brennan Center focusing on voting rights and election administration. Probably on a bike or a beach. Opinions mine, yadda yadda. He/him
Twitter: @KevinTMorris
Brennan Centerhttps://www.brennancenter.org/experts/kevin-morris
Personal Websitehttps://www.kevintmorris.com
Kevin MorrisApr 29, 2023
LeaBugApr 28, 2023

It's time to review your voter registration and party affiliation. Don't wait until election day to find out you've been cleared from the rolls. Ask your neighbors if they have registered and do they need any help with registration.

#votingrights #voterRegistration

Show threadKevin MorrisApr 26, 2023
I'm grateful to everyone who supported this project, and I hope this is helpful to scholars and activists alike. It seems that police killings--even those that don't make national news--can increase political engagement, and they should be treated as such
Show threadKevin MorrisApr 26, 2023
We also find that the killings only really increase turnout when the victim's name trends on Google, when the victim is Black, or the neighborhood is largely Black
Show threadKevin MorrisApr 26, 2023
We also vary the geographic radius around the killings. Neighborhoods close to police killings saw turnout go way up, but by the time we get to around a mile out, the effect drops pretty much to zero.
Show threadKevin MorrisApr 26, 2023
To test the effects of shootings on turnout, we run a regression discontinuity in time, around the 2016 and 2020 elections
Show threadKevin MorrisApr 26, 2023
Police killings occur with alarming frequency in the US. According to data from Mapping Police Violence and WaPo's Fatal Force database, police killed someone in every single state (and DC) except Rhode Island within 6 months of the 2020 election
Kevin MorrisApr 26, 2023

Hey hey, it's (#OpenAccess) publication day!
I'm so excited for this paper with Kelsey Shoub to be out at
APSR!

We develop a theory of "community contact" with the criminal legal system, showing that police killings spur turout at the local level...🧵https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055423000321

Contested Killings: The Mobilizing Effects of Community Contact with Police Violence | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

Contested Killings: The Mobilizing Effects of Community Contact with Police Violence

Cambridge Core
Kevin MorrisApr 10, 2023
New working paper just dropped!!
Household Covid deaths don't seem to impact turnout differently than other deaths... *In the aggregate*
But it SEEMS that there are mobilizing and demobilizing effects pushing in opposite directions; nonwhite voters high in racial resentment voted more, others less, after Covid contact
https://www.kevintmorris.com/_files/ugd/79f464_4cb137f8300c453793970f402c934d1c.pdf
Kevin MorrisApr 10, 2023
Kevin MorrisApr 8, 2023

Super excited to present this paper at #MPSA2023 (it's also part of my diss!). The findings?
A) Fraud rhetoric is centered on Black cities

B) Whites high in racial resentment saw their post-election confidence bottom out in 2020

C) A survey experiment shows whites high in resentment and white ID find accusations of fraud way more credible when levied against Black municipalities

Kevin MorrisApr 8, 2023
Brooklyn's all dressed up for Easter