DAVID ALEXANDER BATEMAN
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David A. Bateman is an Associate Professor in the Government Department as well as the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy at Cornell University. His research focuses on Congress, American Political Development, and voting rights. He has published articles in the Journal of Politics, the Journal of Historical Political Economy, the Annual Review of Political Science, Studies in American Political Development, the American Journal of Political Science, ​Public Choice and other venues.

​His co-authored book, Southern Nation: Congress and White Supremacy after Reconstruction, examines the role of southern members of Congress in shaping national policy from the end of Reconstruction until the New Deal. His second book, Disenfranchising Democracy: Constructing a Mass Electorate in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, compares the development of political rights across these three countries. A co-edited volume, When the People Rule: Popular Sovereignty in Theory and in Practice, brings together new perspectives on a contested but still-vital concept. 

His current research includes studies of Black American politics during the last decades of the 19th century and first three decades of the 20th century, the development of industrial democracy as an intellectual and institutional program in the United States, as well as ongoing data collection projects on American state constitutions and 19th century state legislative behavior. 

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  • Home
  • About
  • Books
    • When the People Rule
    • Disenfranchising Democracy
    • Southern Nation
  • Articles and Chapters
    • Articles >
      • A Developmental Approach to Historical Causal Inference
      • A House Divided?
      • An Inherent Tension Within Populist Rhetoric
      • Deeper Roots
      • Democracy-Reinforcing Hardball
      • Democratization in the USA
      • Gilded Age Doughfaces
      • Ideal Points and American Political Development
      • Judicial Power and the Shifting Purpose of Article V
      • Partisan Polarization on Black Suffrage
      • Race, Party, and American Voting Rights
      • Southern Politics Revisited
      • The South in American Political Development
      • Transatlantic Anxieties
    • Chapters >
      • Election Administration and Democratic Fragility
      • Elections, Polarization, and Democratic Resilience
      • Race and Historical Political Economy
  • Working Projects
    • State Legislative Roll Calls
    • Congressional Data
  • Appointments
  • CV