Jason Sorens
Jason Sorens, Ph.D., is Senior Research Fellow at AIER. He is also Principal Investigator on the New Hampshire Zoning Atlas. Jason was formerly the director of the Center for Ethics in Society at Saint Anselm College. He has researched and written more than 20 peer‐reviewed journal articles, a book for McGill‐Queens University Press titled Secessionism, and a biennially revised book for the Cato Institute, Freedom in the 50 States (with William Ruger).
His research is focused on housing policy and land-use regulation, U.S. state politics, fiscal federalism, and movements for regional autonomy and independence around the world. He has taught at Yale, Dartmouth, and the University at Buffalo and twice won awards for best teaching in his department. He lives in Amherst, New Hampshire.
Articles by Jason Sorens
Research Publications by Jason Sorens
Title: The changing ideological politics of US state firearms regulation
Authors: DS McLean, J Sorens
Publication: Politics & Policy 47 (4), 638-672, 2019
Title: Freedom in the 50 States: An Index of Personal and Economic Freedom
Authors: W Ruger, J Sorens
Publication: Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 2018
Title: Pre-colonial centralisation, traditional indirect rule, and state capacity in Africa
Authors: C Cappelen, J Sorens
Publication: Commonwealth & Comparative Politics 56 (2), 195-215, 2018
Title: The effects of housing supply restrictions on partisan geography
Authors: J Sorens
Publication: Political Geography 66, 44-56, 2018
Title: Arab Spring constitution-making: polarization, exclusion, and constraints
Authors: E Cross, J Sorens
Publication: Democratization 23 (7), 1292-1312, 2016
Title: Freedom in the 50 States Dataset
Authors: WP Ruger, J Sorens
Publication: Mercatus Center, George Mason University. Accessed November 8, 2016
