Jacob Hacker

@Jacob_S_Hacker

Professor of Political Science @Yale, Fellow @ISPSYale, co-author "Let Them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality;" jacobhacker.com

Joined February 2020

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Jacob Hacker @Jacob_S_Hacker Jun 3

Everyone knows that the Supreme Court’s gutting of the VRA means fewer Black legislators. Our research shows what else it means: Black voters in the South losing the one mechanism that made Congress actually vote their way. With Zoli Hajnal @markarian_g @lovkh #VotingRights

The American Prospect @TheProspect Jun 3

Millions of voters of color will no longer be able to elect a representative of their choice. But what’s at stake is far bigger: whether voters of color can elect legislators whose votes actually reflect their policy preferences. prospect.org/?p=139239

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Jacob Hacker @Jacob_S_Hacker Nov 14, 2025

Is national policy more responsive to the preferences of white Americans than to those of people of color? When Republicans control the federal government, yes. White voters are more likely to see bills they support become law than are Black, Latino, or Asian American voters. 1/5

Cambridge University Press - Politics @CUP_PoliSci Nov 12, 2025

#OpenAccess from @apsrjournal -

Race, Responsiveness, and Representation in U.S. Lawmaking - cup.org/4nWMvzd

- @markarian_g, @Jacob_S_Hacker, @lockhartm & ZOLTAN HAJNAL

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Jacob Hacker @Jacob_S_Hacker Jul 10, 2025

Republicans' hugely unpopular bill is law; will they pay the electoral price for it they should? My research with @sullosaurus for @equitablegrowth has good news and bad news. The good: voters informed about the bill's effects overwhelmingly oppose it. equitablegrowth.org/americans-info…

equitablegrowth.org Americans informed about the distributional effects of Republicans’ tax and budget bill overwhelm... Republicans’ tax and budget bill would, if enacted, be the most regressive U.S. tax and budget law in at least the past four decades.

Jacob Hacker @Jacob_S_Hacker Jun 27, 2025

@JustinWolfers discussing how unbelievably unpopular the Big Beautiful Bill becomes among REPUBLICANS when you show them how much it takes from ordinary Americans to pad the pockets of the rich, based on the survey @sullosaurus and I did. Grateful he’s spreading the word!

Justin Wolfers Verified account @JustinWolfers Jun 27, 2025

"once you understand the reality of what this bill does, it turns out to be incredibly unpopular."

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Jacob Hacker @Jacob_S_Hacker May 15, 2025

How the economic and political geography of the United States fuels right-wing populism—and what the Democratic Party can do about it equitablegrowth.org/how-the-econom… via @equitablegrowth

equitablegrowth.org How the economic and political geography of the United States fuels right-wing populism—and what... The shifting coalitional bases of America’s two major parties and how they are related to political-economic geography.