K Ramanathan
Biographic Data
| ID | 54158 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Ramanathan |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Ramanathan |
| SIGNATURE | RAMANATHAN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6294-1071 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Countermajoritarian Difficulty Revisited: Theorizing Court–Party Relations in the United States
Political actors, scholars, and citizens have long worried that the United States Supreme Court poses a “countermajoritarian difficulty”: the concern that policy making by unelected judges undermines democratic governance. In political science, a prominent response has come from a school of thought known as “regime theory,” which contends that this concern is misplaced because the court acts in alignment with a dominant governing coalition in the…
Responsibility Attribution for Supreme Court Decision-Making: Politicization, Partisanship, and Dobbs
The U.S. Supreme Court’s ambiguous institutional position—insulated from external pressures yet retaining important linkages with elected officials—complicates how the public assigns responsibility for its decisions. Using a survey experiment that shows respondents information about Dobbs , we explore how messages that politicize or depoliticize the Court affect responsibility attribution for Court decisions. We find that politicizing the Court i…
The Major Questions Doctrine: Judicial Power and the Prevalence of Policy Drift in the United States
A major challenge of governance in the United States is policy drift, the phenomenon wherein a policy’s outcomes are transformed due to a failure to update its rules or structures to meet changing circumstances. Policy drift has been prevalent in recent decades due to declining legislative productivity, a veto-riddled legislative process, and the rapid pace of technological and environmental change. We argue that the emergence of the “major quest…
Experiences of Policing in Gentrifying Neighborhoods: Evidence From Chicago
Do patterns of unequal policing persist or transform within gentrifying neighborhoods? Using an original survey of Chicago residents, we assess whether gentrifiers and longtime residents experience policing differently. Building on macro-level studies which rely on aggregate population data and micro-level studies which rely on ethnographies and interviews, we conduct a meso-level study that compares the experiences and views of differently posit…
Partisanship and Racial Attitudes in U.S. Civil War Enlistment
In this article, we investigate why millions of northern white men volunteered to fight in the Civil War. Prior studies have found that Republican partisanship played a significant role in boosting Union enlistment but do not test the competing hypothesis that views about slavery and race motivated them instead. Such views were highly salient among party elites before and during the war, which was sparked by a presidential election between partie…
Reinvigorating American Political Development Scholarship through Du Bois's Black Reconstruction
Recent events have augured a renewed urgency among political scientists to address the instability of democracy and the structure of racism in the United States. In this article, I make the case for American political development (APD) scholars to engage more deeply with Black Reconstruction in America (1935), W. E. B. Du Bois's masterful study of political development during the Reconstruction Era. This rich text, which analyzes an often overloo…
From civil rights to social policy: The political development of family and medical leave policy
Family and medical leave policy in the United States is often noted for its lack of wage compensation, but is also distinctive in its gender neutrality and its broad coverage of several types of leave (combining pregnancy leave with medical, parental, and caregiving leave). This article argues that the distinctive design of leave policy in the United States is explained by its origins in contestation over the civil rights policy regime that emerg…
New Asian American Voters: Political Incorporation and Participation in 2016
In 2016, Asian Americans represented the fastest growing racial minority group in the United States largely due to the flow of new immigration. As a result, Asian Americans are poised to be the next major bloc of new voters in the electorate. Yet, as a largely new immigrant group, institutional barriers—in particular, naturalization and registration—are important factors which need to be more thoroughly taken into account when explaining Asian Am…
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Hinduism in a Muslim state: The case of Malaysia
1996). Hinduism in a Muslim state: The case of Malaysia. Asian Journal of Political Science: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 42-62
New Asian American Voters: Political Incorporation and Participation in 2016
In 2016, Asian Americans represented the fastest growing racial minority group in the United States largely due to the flow of new immigration. As a result, Asian Americans are poised to be the next major bloc of new voters in the electorate. Yet, as a largely new immigrant group, institutional barriers—in particular, naturalization and registration—are important factors which need to be more thoroughly taken into account when explaining Asian Am…
Experiences of Policing in Gentrifying Neighborhoods: Evidence From Chicago
Do patterns of unequal policing persist or transform within gentrifying neighborhoods? Using an original survey of Chicago residents, we assess whether gentrifiers and longtime residents experience policing differently. Building on macro-level studies which rely on aggregate population data and micro-level studies which rely on ethnographies and interviews, we conduct a meso-level study that compares the experiences and views of differently posit…
Reinvigorating American Political Development Scholarship through Du Bois's Black Reconstruction
Recent events have augured a renewed urgency among political scientists to address the instability of democracy and the structure of racism in the United States. In this article, I make the case for American political development (APD) scholars to engage more deeply with Black Reconstruction in America (1935), W. E. B. Du Bois's masterful study of political development during the Reconstruction Era. This rich text, which analyzes an often overloo…
The Major Questions Doctrine: Judicial Power and the Prevalence of Policy Drift in the United States
A major challenge of governance in the United States is policy drift, the phenomenon wherein a policy’s outcomes are transformed due to a failure to update its rules or structures to meet changing circumstances. Policy drift has been prevalent in recent decades due to declining legislative productivity, a veto-riddled legislative process, and the rapid pace of technological and environmental change. We argue that the emergence of the “major quest…
Hinduism in a Muslim state: The case of Malaysia
1996). Hinduism in a Muslim state: The case of Malaysia. Asian Journal of Political Science: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 42-62
Hinduism in a Muslim state: The case of Malaysia
1996). Hinduism in a Muslim state: The case of Malaysia. Asian Journal of Political Science: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 42-62
Graduate Students & Special Programs Funded
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
New Asian American Voters: Political Incorporation and Participation in 2016
In 2016, Asian Americans represented the fastest growing racial minority group in the United States largely due to the flow of new immigration. As a result, Asian Americans are poised to be the next major bloc of new voters in the electorate. Yet, as a largely new immigrant group, institutional barriers—in particular, naturalization and registration—are important factors which need to be more thoroughly taken into account when explaining Asian Am…
From civil rights to social policy: The political development of family and medical leave policy
Family and medical leave policy in the United States is often noted for its lack of wage compensation, but is also distinctive in its gender neutrality and its broad coverage of several types of leave (combining pregnancy leave with medical, parental, and caregiving leave). This article argues that the distinctive design of leave policy in the United States is explained by its origins in contestation over the civil rights policy regime that emerg…
Partisanship and Racial Attitudes in U.S. Civil War Enlistment
In this article, we investigate why millions of northern white men volunteered to fight in the Civil War. Prior studies have found that Republican partisanship played a significant role in boosting Union enlistment but do not test the competing hypothesis that views about slavery and race motivated them instead. Such views were highly salient among party elites before and during the war, which was sparked by a presidential election between partie…
Reinvigorating American Political Development Scholarship through Du Bois's Black Reconstruction
Recent events have augured a renewed urgency among political scientists to address the instability of democracy and the structure of racism in the United States. In this article, I make the case for American political development (APD) scholars to engage more deeply with Black Reconstruction in America (1935), W. E. B. Du Bois's masterful study of political development during the Reconstruction Era. This rich text, which analyzes an often overloo…
Experiences of Policing in Gentrifying Neighborhoods: Evidence From Chicago
Do patterns of unequal policing persist or transform within gentrifying neighborhoods? Using an original survey of Chicago residents, we assess whether gentrifiers and longtime residents experience policing differently. Building on macro-level studies which rely on aggregate population data and micro-level studies which rely on ethnographies and interviews, we conduct a meso-level study that compares the experiences and views of differently posit…
The Major Questions Doctrine: Judicial Power and the Prevalence of Policy Drift in the United States
A major challenge of governance in the United States is policy drift, the phenomenon wherein a policy’s outcomes are transformed due to a failure to update its rules or structures to meet changing circumstances. Policy drift has been prevalent in recent decades due to declining legislative productivity, a veto-riddled legislative process, and the rapid pace of technological and environmental change. We argue that the emergence of the “major quest…
The Countermajoritarian Difficulty Revisited: Theorizing Court–Party Relations in the United States
Political actors, scholars, and citizens have long worried that the United States Supreme Court poses a “countermajoritarian difficulty”: the concern that policy making by unelected judges undermines democratic governance. In political science, a prominent response has come from a school of thought known as “regime theory,” which contends that this concern is misplaced because the court acts in alignment with a dominant governing coalition in the…
Responsibility Attribution for Supreme Court Decision-Making: Politicization, Partisanship, and Dobbs
The U.S. Supreme Court’s ambiguous institutional position—insulated from external pressures yet retaining important linkages with elected officials—complicates how the public assigns responsibility for its decisions. Using a survey experiment that shows respondents information about Dobbs , we explore how messages that politicize or depoliticize the Court affect responsibility attribution for Court decisions. We find that politicizing the Court i…
Politics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Democracy (3 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (3 works) · Judicial and Constitutional Studies (3 works) · Demographic economics (2 works)