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Carey's scholarship centers on electoral systems, constitutional design, legislative accountability, democratic erosion, election misperceptions, and campus diversity. He is co-founder and co-director of Bright Line Watch, a project surveying experts on threats to U.S. democracy. His books include Presidents and Assemblies: Constitutional Design and Electoral Dynamics (Cambridge University Press, 1992, co-authored with Matthew S. Shugart), Term Limits and Legislative Representation (Cambridge University Press, 1996), Executive Decree Authority (Cambridge University Press, 1998, co-edited with Matthew S. Shugart), Term Limits in the State Legislatures (University of Michigan Press, 2000, with Richard G. Niemi and Lynda W. Powell), Legislative Voting and Accountability (Cambridge University Press, 2009), and Campus Diversity: The Hidden Consensus (Cambridge University Press, 2020, with Katherine P. Clayton and Yusaku Horiuchi). Recent publications appear in Science Advances (2025, on prebunking and election credibility), Electoral Studies (2025, on fraud perceptions), and Political Behavior (2024, on targeted corrections). Carey was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2012) and received the American Political Science Association's George H. Hallet Award (2014) for Presidents and Assemblies.