On Andy McLeod’s Historic Matters podcast, Batten professor Gerry Warburg explores how lessons from the past can inspire the best policymaking for what’s to come.

The United States has one of the lowest youth voter turnout rates in the world. Batten's John Holbein is determined to find out why and how to fix it.

Conservatives have pushed one complaint above all others: The media is biased against them because it is overwhelmingly staffed by liberal journalists. A new study from a team that includes UVA’s John Holbein provides the strongest evidence ever that they’re half-right – but only the least important half.

Please join the Batten School and UVA Center for Politics for the 21st Annual American Democracy Conference. This is the first in a series of events celebrating the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage.

The Science Policy Initiative at UVA presents Funding Science in America with Dr. James Savage, Professor of Politics and Public Policy. Lunch will be provided.

Join us for a panel discussion, "The Road Map to the 2020 Election," moderated by Center for Politics Director Larry J. Sabato. Panelists include New York Times Columnist Jamelle Bouie, The Daily Beast Senior Columnist Matt K. Lewis, New York Times Journalist Jonathan Martin, and CNN Political Commentator Tara Setmayer. This event is co-sponsored by the Batten School and UVA Center for Politics.

Ariel White studies voting and voting rights, race, the criminal justice system, and bureaucratic behavior. Her work uses large datasets to measure individual-level experiences, and to shed light on people’s everyday interactions with government.

Galen Fountain is a lecturer at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Previously, he served for nearly two decades as Clerk of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies and prior to that as Counsel to the Senate Committee on Small Business. 

Harry Harding is university professor emeritus and professor emeritus of public policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, a senior fellow in the Miller Center of Public Affairs at UVA, and Adjunct Chair Professor in the College of Social Science at National Chengchi University in Taipei, where he holds a Yushan Scholarship. Harding is a specialist on Asia and U.S. - Asian relations.

John Holbein is an associate professor of public policy, politics, and education at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Holbein studies political participation, political inequality, democratic accountability, political representation, and education policy.