Research and More...
Publications
Davis, B. R. (2024). Racialized feedback and social welfare receipt: Disentangling duration and dollar amount mechanisms on policy feedback effects. Politics, Groups, and Identities, 1-27. doi:10.1080/21565503.2024.2320200
Davis, B. (2023) Faith, Race, and Immigration: Assessing the Effect of Religiosity on Racial Beliefs and Attitudes. New Political Science. 45(3) 448-477
Davis, B. (2023) State Incarceration Policy in the U.S. Federal System: Assessing Recent Approaches to Reducing Incarceration Rates. Publius: The Journal of Federalism. 53(3), 484-510
Davis, B. (2022). The Politics of Racial Abjection. DuBois Review: Social Science Research on Race. 20(1), 143-162
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
Book Chapters
(2025) “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.
(2024) "Predatory States and Predacious Institutions" Chapter 3 in F. Rojas and C. Stern, eds. Freedom is a Social Process. Rowman and Littlefield.
Book Review
B Davis (2024) Race and the American Story. Shonekan, Stephanie, and Adam Seagrave. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2024. 196p. $99.00 cloth, 27.95 paper. Political Science Reviewer, 48(2)
Davis, B. (2023) A Political Economy of Justice. Edited by Danielle Allen, Yochai Benkler, Leah Downey, Rebecca Henderson, and Josh Simons. Chicago, Il: The University of Chicago Press, 2022. 400p. $110.00 cloth, $35.00 paper. American Political Thought 12(3), 470-474.
Davis, B. (2022). The Ethics of Policing: New Perspectives on Law Enforcement. Edited by Ben Jones and Eduardo Mendieta. New York: New York University Press, 2021. 311p. $99.00 cloth, $35.00 paper. Perspectives on Politics, 20(1), 330-331.
Under Review
Carceral Classrooms: Gendered Pathways into the Welfare State
Reconciling Classical Liberalism with Racial Justice
Working Papers
Prosecutors and Adjudication Outcomes
Book Project
We Dare Defend Our Rights: The Alabama Democratic Conference
Grants
NSF CAREER: We Dare Defend Our Rights: The Political Use of Law in the Enforcement of Voting Rights (Funded: $483,302)
EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program Track-1. Adaptive and Resilient Infrastructure driven by Social Equity (ARISE). (Senior Personnel). (Funded: $20,000,000)
Center for Governance and Markets, University of Pittsburgh. 2021. “We Dare Defend Our Rights: The Alabama Democratic Conference” (Funded: $8,318)
Federal Statistical Research Data Center
Pending Data Proposal
