Resources
Start where you are.
Every state has a page: its events year by year, the themes most present in it, and every report, brief, and guide that touches it. Themes and categories cut the same record the other way.
State pages
All 50 states
- AlabamaPress freedom53
- AlaskaExecutive overreach36
- ArizonaPublic information and transparency15
- ArkansasLegislative checks52
- CaliforniaVoting rights and access8
- ColoradoLegislative checks45
- ConnecticutExecutive overreach27
- DelawareJudicial independence50
- FloridaVoting rights and access7
- GeorgiaPress freedom26
- HawaiiVoting rights and access63
- IdahoElection administration40
- IllinoisJudicial independence20
- IndianaElection administration44
- IowaElection administration79
- KansasPress freedom62
- KentuckyJudicial independence34
- LouisianaPublic information and transparency54
- MaineExecutive overreach22
- MarylandPress freedom36
- MassachusettsElection administration21
- MichiganJudicial independence47
- MinnesotaExecutive overreach68
- MississippiCivil society and protest54
- MissouriElection administration65
- MontanaJudicial independence18
- NebraskaExecutive overreach63
- NevadaElection administration14
- New HampshirePublic information and transparency50
- New JerseyCivil society and protest57
- New MexicoExecutive overreach71
- New YorkElection administration26
- North CarolinaExecutive overreach11
- North DakotaPress freedom38
- OhioElection administration56
- OklahomaLegislative checks30
- OregonPress freedom35
- PennsylvaniaCivil society and protest63
- Rhode IslandPress freedom14
- South CarolinaCivil society and protest26
- South DakotaExecutive overreach41
- TennesseePress freedom51
- TexasExecutive overreach55
- UtahElection administration46
- VermontVoting rights and access19
- VirginiaElection administration51
- WashingtonElection administration60
- West VirginiaElection administration19
- WisconsinCivil society and protest40
- WyomingLocal government autonomy18
No state matches that.
Counts are sample events, not DEED records.
Theme pages
The 9 themes
The same record cut by pattern rather than by place: every event of a kind, across all 50 states.
Election administration
How elections are run, certified, and staffed.
4 categories256 eventsVoting rights and access
Who can register, and how easily they can cast a ballot.
4 categories225 eventsJudicial independence
Courts’ insulation from political pressure and retaliation.
4 categories245 eventsLegislative checks
The legislature’s capacity to constrain executive power.
4 categories226 eventsExecutive overreach
Executive action beyond its statutory or constitutional bounds.
4 categories256 eventsPress freedom
Journalists’ access to officials, records, and proceedings.
4 categories243 eventsCivil society and protest
Space for assembly, advocacy, and organized dissent.
4 categories266 eventsPublic information and transparency
What the public can see about how decisions get made.
3 categories179 eventsLocal government autonomy
The latitude counties and cities retain against the state.
2 categories104 events
Category resource guides
All 33 guides
A guide per category — what it covers, how it is coded, and where to look for it in your own state. They double as course material.
Election administration
Voting rights and access
Judicial independence
Legislative checks
Executive overreach
Press freedom
Civil society and protest
Public information and transparency
Local government autonomy
For W&M students
Coursework, guides, and a way onto the project
The category guides double as course material, and the project takes student research assistants each term.
In coursework
The category guides are written to be assigned — each one carries discussion questions and an exercise.
As a research assistant
Student RAs code events against the codebook, check each other’s coding, and draft state reports.
Getting in touch
The team page lists the roles to write to, and the contact form reaches the project directly.