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2022
Strategic Realism, not Optimism: Bayesian and Indigenous Perspectives on the Democratizing Petition. Social Science History. 2022.
Strategic Realism, not Optimism: Bayesian and Indigenous Perspectives on the Democratizing Petition. Social Science History. 2022.
Strategic Realism, not Optimism: Bayesian and Indigenous Perspectives on the Democratizing Petition. Social Science History. 2022.
Strategic Realism, not Optimism: Bayesian and Indigenous Perspectives on the Democratizing Petition. Social Science History. 2022.
2021
Carpenter D. Democracy by Petition: Popular Politics in Transformation, 1790-1870. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; 2021.
Carpenter D. Democracy by Petition: Popular Politics in Transformation, 1790-1870. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; 2021.
2020
Blackhawk M, Carpenter D, Resch T, Schneer B. The Contours of American Congressional Petitioning, 1789-1949: A New Database. 2020.
Blackhawk M, Carpenter D, Resch T, Schneer B. The Contours of American Congressional Petitioning, 1789-1949: A New Database. 2020.
We introduce the Congressional Petitions Database (CPD), an original endeavor tracking virtually
every petition introduced to Congress from 1789 to 1949. Exploiting Congress’s ritual reading of
petition prayers, we leverage a supervised machine learning...
every petition introduced to Congress from 1789 to 1949. Exploiting Congress’s ritual reading of
petition prayers, we leverage a supervised machine learning...
The possibility of a contested presidential election in November 2020 to January 2021 is real, and one of the most common scenarios (discussed in a widely shared Newsweek article and by the legal scholar Lawrence Lessig) involves states refusing to...
Blackhawk M, Carpenter D, Resch T, Schneer B. Congressional Representation by Petition: Assessing the Voices of the Voteless in a Comprehensive New Database, 1789–1949. Legislative Studies Quarterly. 2020.
Blackhawk M, Carpenter D, Resch T, Schneer B. Congressional Representation by Petition: Assessing the Voices of the Voteless in a Comprehensive New Database, 1789–1949. Legislative Studies Quarterly. 2020.
For much of American political history, the electoral franchise was restricted to only a portion of the population. By contrast, the right to petition was considered universal and enshrined in the First Amendment, giving voice to the voteless. Petitioning...
2019
Pham-Kanter G, Carpenter D, Lehmann L, Mello M. Effect of the Public Disclosure of Industry Payments Information on Patients: Results from a Population-Based Natural Experiment. British Medical Journal – BMJ Open. 2019.
Pham-Kanter G, Carpenter D, Lehmann L, Mello M. Effect of the Public Disclosure of Industry Payments Information on Patients: Results from a Population-Based Natural Experiment. British Medical Journal – BMJ Open. 2019.
Pham-Kanter G LM Carpenter D. U.S. Nationwide Disclosure of Industry Payments and Public Trust in Physicians. Journal of the American Medical Association – JAMA Network Open. 2019.
Pham-Kanter G LM Carpenter D. U.S. Nationwide Disclosure of Industry Payments and Public Trust in Physicians. Journal of the American Medical Association – JAMA Network Open. 2019.
Carpenter D, Brossard D. L’éruption patriote: The Revolt against Dalhousie and the Petitioning Explosion in Nineteenth-Century French Canada. Social Science History. 2019;43:453–485.
Carpenter D, Brossard D. L’éruption patriote: The Revolt against Dalhousie and the Petitioning Explosion in Nineteenth-Century French Canada. Social Science History. 2019;43:453–485.
As much as any other site in the nineteenth century, Francophone Lower Canada saw immense waves of popular petitioning, with petitions against British colonial administration attracting tens of thousands of signatures in the 1820s. The petition against...