My Work
Publications
Davis, B. (2021). Feeling Politics: Carceral Contact, Well-Being and Participation. Policy Studies Journal. 49(2), 591-615.
Davis, B. (2021). Predation in State and Nation. Race and Justice, 11(2), 205-225.
Davis, B. (2020). Testing Mechanisms: Carceral Contact and Political Participation. Social Science Quarterly. 101(2), 909-924.
Davis, B. (2019). Are Majority Minority Districts Too Safe?: A look at the Alabama State Legislature. DuBois Review: Social Science Research on Race. 16(1), 157-175.
Davis, B (Forthcoming). Redistricting. In T. King-Meadow, K. Middlemass, & V. Sinclair-Chapman (Eds.), African Americans in the American Political System: An Encyclopedia of African Americans as Voters, Candidates, and Office Holders. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.
Davis, B (Forthcoming). Stop and Frisk. In T. King-Meadow, K. Middlemass, & V. Sinclair-Chapman (Eds.), African Americans in the American Political System: An Encyclopedia of African Americans as Voters, Candidates, and Office Holders. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.
Book Chapters
Davis, B. (Forthcoming) “Criminal Justice in State and Nation.” Chapter 10 in T. Kousser, C. Tolbert, and J. Michener, eds., Politics in the American States: A comparative analysis. 12th Edition, Congressional Quarterly Press.
Davis, B. (Forthcoming) "Liberty is for Everyone" in D. D'Amico and A. Martin, eds. Marginalized Groups and the Market Processes.
Under Review
The Politics of Racial Abjection (Revise and Resubmit)
Faith, Race, and Immigration: Religiosity and Racial Resentment
Public Assistance and Participatory Behavior: Resource Feedback Effects
Working Papers
Interracial Elections: Does It Matter Whom Candidates Marry?
Carceral Classrooms: Gendered Pathways into the Welfare State
A Rational Approach to Ideology
Antigone: Autonomy and the State
Book Projects
We Dare Defend Our Rights: The Alabama Democratic Conference
Other Publications
Davis, B. and Jordan D. (2021) Expanding Medicaid would enable treatment for mental health illness and ease the burden on law enforcement. Topeka Capital-Journal
Davis, B. (2020) Carceral Contact and Participation. 3Streams
Davis, B (2016) Globalizing the Agenda of #BlackLivesMatter. Agenda for International Development.
Davis, B. (2015) Graduate students hurt by the Affordable Care Act. The Hill, July 29, 2015.
Davis, B. (2014) Ferguson the Latest Front in the State’s War on Black Community. PanAm Post August 22, 2004.
