Assistant Professor Tye Rush publishes on electoral mistrust across racial groups in the US in Political Research Quarterly

Assistant Professor Tye Rush has published a new article published in Political Research Quarterly that examines whether mistrust in American elections extends beyond white conservatives to racial and ethnic minority groups. Using an original national survey and data from the Survey of the Performance of American Elections (2012–2022), Rush and his coauthors find that Black and Native American respondents express significantly lower trust in electoral integrity than white Americans. Asian Americans’ trust levels are statistically comparable to whites, while the Latine trust gap can be partly explained by differences in education and income. Crucially, the study shows that state voting laws explain these patterns: in states with restrictive voting policies, the gap in election trust between Black and white Americans is larger than in states with the most inclusive laws. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10659129251363201