What do the 2022 midterm elections look like one week out? Join Batten School professor Jennifer Lawless and other panelists to explore the polls, ads, issues, money, and controversies of this year’s contests

A roundtable of current and former leaders and activists of Charlottesville, reflecting on the run-up to and aftermath of the events of August 11 and 12, 2017.

Panelists, including the Batten School's Jennifer Lawless, will discuss the issues that are front and center on voters' minds this November: inflation and the economy, SCOTUS and abortion rights, crime and law enforcement, and intersections of identity, race, education, and public health. 

In an article for The Hill, Batten's Craig Volden and co-author Alan E. Wiseman write that Representatives and Senators who engage constituents through town halls can enhance their lawmaking effectiveness in Congress.

Cooper Cramer, a rising fourth-year and incoming student in Batten’s Accelerated Master of Public Policy program, spent 10 weeks this summer in an internship with Virginia’s Office of the Governor. Cramer served as a “transformation associate” in the Governor’s newly formed Office of Transformation, a position that he says has helped him focus more clearly on career options.

This paper documents the extent and nature of inequities in voter participation in the United States with a level of granularity and precision that previous research has not afforded.

Nora Neus (MPP '16), a Batten alumna and Emmy-nominated producer and journalist at CNN, conducted a haunting interview with a student survivor of the Uvalde massacre that made its way into the national debate.

A new report by Batten School Professor Jennifer Lawless highlights the gender gap in political ambition. The research declares that “politics remains a game for men.”

Batten School student Alyssa Candelmo said she aims to be a person who makes “positive decisions” for minorities and marginalized communities. 

Batten professor Ray Scheppach shares his knowledge on the Virginia state budgeting process as a guest on the WTJU podcast Bold Dominion.