Aidan Calvelli studies how the law of democracy has changed — and how it should. His past and ongoing projects have explored American histories of compulsory voting and proportional representation, the relation between economic and political inequality, the need for substantive democracy reform, the risks of executive power, and the way we should measure presidential elections. 

Aidan’s academic work has been published in the Annual Review of Political Science, Political Science Quarterly, the Election Law Journal, and (as a student) the Harvard Law Review. His popular writing has been featured in outlets such as The Hill and the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. 

Aidan is a Ph.D. candidate in Politics at Princeton University, where he is training in American political development, political history, and political theory. He received a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where he was an Articles Editor on the Harvard Law Review, a Law & Political Economy Student Fellow, and the recipient of the Law & Political Economy Student Writing Prize. He also received an A.B. in Political Science, magna cum laude, from Brown University, where he won the Philo Sherman Bennett Prize for the best essay on free government.