Douglas Spencer
Douglas Spencer is Professor of Law and Public Policy at the University of Connecticut. During the 2020-2021 academic year, he is visiting Colorado Law as Distinguished Faculty Fellow at the Byron R. White Center for the Study of American Constitutional Law. Spencer is an election law scholar whose research addresses the role of prejudice and racial attitudes in voting rights litigation, the empirical implications of various campaign finance regulations, and the ways that election rules and political campaigns contribute to growing inequality in America.
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Essays and Scholarship
Voter Data, Democratic Inequality, and the Risk of Political Violence
How data is used to marginalize the poor during elections—and what can be done about it
By Bertrall Ross & Douglas Spencer