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Compulsory Voting Boosts Men’s Turnout More Than Women’s

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Compulsory Voting

Turnout

Gender Gap

Brazil

Administrative Data

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How Broward's Ballot Design Caused 25,000 Undervotes but Didn't Flip 2018 Race

Ballot Design

Election Administration

Undervote

Broward County

2018 Florida

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Ranked Choice Expands Candidate Pools Briefly, Not Diversity or Long-Term Entry

RCV

Candidate Entry

Descriptive Representation

DiD

Local Elections

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How November Election Timing Helps Latino Candidates Win

Descriptive Representation

Election Timing

California

Turnout

Latinos

Quasi-experiment

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2024

How Campaign Experiments Give Well-Financed Campaigns a Persuasion Edge

Persuasion

Advertising

Experiments

Swayable

Campaign Finance

APSR

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Voter Confusion Over Age Cutoffs in Brazil's Compulsory Election System

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2023

Regression Discontinuity Design

Compulsory Voting

Age Cutoff

Brazil

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Irrelevant Events Influence Elections: Replication Findings Across Diverse Political Contexts

Descriptive Representation

Rational Choice Theory

Replication Studies

Crossnational Comparisons

Field Experiments

Survey Data Analysis

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Italy's Negative Ads Help Third Candidates Despite Backlash Against Incumbents

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Negative Campaigning

Spillover Effect

Third Candidates

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2022

Partisan Loyalty Shapes Voter Preferences on Election Outcomes

Survey Experiment

Proportional Representation

Government Formation

Canada Election

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How Co-ethnic Candidates & Districts Shape Asian American Voting

Asian American

Coethnic Candidate

District Demographics

Voting Behavior

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Violence at the Polls: Unexpected Spillover Effects of Police Crackdown in Catalonia

Police Crackdown

Catalonia

Spatial Spillover Effect

Repression-Mobilization Nexus

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Social Networks Amplify Underdog Votes: An Echo Chamber Experiment

Social Networks

Voting Behavior

Echo Chambers

Homophily

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Birth Order Shapes Political Engagement: New Insights from Register Data

Birth Order

Voter Turnout

Register Data

Sweden

Norway

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Female Candidates in the U.S.: Unexpected Support Amid Election Threats?

Female Candidates

US Elections

Descriptive Representation

Voter Behavior

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Can the Party in Power Systematically Win Majority Seats Even When Elections Are Close? New Findings from US State Assemblies

Political Parties

Close Elections

U.S.

State Assemblies

High School Civic Education's Impact on Adult Voting Falls Short After Scrutiny

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Civic Education

Voter Turnout

Fixed-effects Models

Adolescent Development

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California Propositions Test Two Democratic Preference Systems

Storable Votes

Quadratic Voting

California Propositions

Preference Intensity

Campaign Finance Limits? Not So Harmless After All

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Colombia

Contribution Limits

Donor Influence

Regression Discontinuity Design

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Do Stereotypes Favor Majority Candidates More Than Oppose Minority Ones?

Stereotype Threat

Descriptive Representation

Electoral Competition

Survey Experiment

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Voter Accountability Shifts Post-War Violence: Why Do They Still Support the Perpetrators?

Civilian Victimization

Accountability Politics

Voter Bias

Post-conflict Societies

How Covid Triggered a Political 'Flight to Safety'

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Status Quo

Anxiety

Primaries

Natural Experiment

France

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Campaign Finance Complexity Reveals Nuances of Race and Gender Interactions

Intersectionality Theory

Campaign Finance Mechanisms

Race/gender Dynamics

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Ballot Position Matters: Campaigns Strategize Responses to Strategic Voting Dynamics

Ballot Order

Strategic Voting

Campaign Strategy

Position Effects

Do Incarcerated Voters Still Cast Ballots? New Evidence from Maine and Vermont

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Incarcerated Voters

Maine Elections

Vermont Polling

Prison Politics

Does 'In Party We Trust' Hold True in Primary Elections?

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Partisan Voting

Descriptive Representation

Candidate Selection

Election Behavior

[Dataset Name]

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Offshore, Lose Seats: Globalization Pressures Impact Election Outcomes

Offshoring

Difference-in-differences

Retrospective Voting

Election Losses

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Couples Moving In Before Elections Boost Voter Turnout Significantly

Cohabitation

Pre-election Movement

Voter Turnout Increase

Household Dynamics

Social Norms

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Negativity in the News and Electoral Behavior Between First- and Second-Order ElectionsIPSR

2 Datasets

Neither Left-Behind Nor Superstar: Why Voters Aren't Seeing Themselves Represented More Online?

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Political Representation

Digital Transformation

European Social Survey

Online Voting

How Election Quality Shapes Civil Conflict: A Deep Dive into Unequal Outcomes

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Election Quality

Civil Conflict

Democratic Governance

Electoral Integrity

International Relations

Partisan Alignment Boosts Voter Turnout: Insights from Redistricting

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Partisan Alignment

Redistricting

Voter Turnout

US States

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Partisan Dislocation Reveals Where Gerrymanders Split Neighborhoods

Partisan Dislocation

Gerrymandering

Representation

Precinct

Spatial Analysis

Partisan Dealignment Fails to Dampen Personal Vote Seeking

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Partisan Dealignment

New Zealand

United Kingdom

Natural Experiment

When Money Moves Parties: How Payments and Penalties Raise Women’s Seats

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Electoral Finance

Gender Quotas

Proportional Representation

QCA

Mixed Methods

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Youth Voting Boosted by Social Influence: How Information Affects Election Turnout

Youth Voters

Turnout

Social Influence

Information

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Contrary to Reform Goals, Public Campaign Money Boosts Extremism in Legislators

Campaign Finance

Representation

Public Campaign Finance

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Public Sector Jobs Boost Turnout — But Only While Working Locally

Voter Turnout

Public Employment

Register Data

Norway

Longitudinal

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This Means Primary Reform Can't Fully Stop Actors from Bypassing Changes

Institutional Change

Substitution Behavior

Campaign Finance

American States

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Strict Photo ID Laws Reduce Voter Turnout, Even When Repealed in North Carolina

Photo ID Law

North Carolina Voter Turnout

Exact Matching

Difference-in-Differences

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Electoral Reforms' Impact on Polarization: Implementation vs Removal Effects

Electoral Reforms

Polarization Dynamics

State Legislatures

Decision Theory Framework

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State Postcards Boost Voter Registration: A Look at Pennsylvania Data

Pennsylvania

Registration

Turnout

Intervention

How Does Time Shape Political Campaign Communication?

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Campaign Communication

Temporal Focus

Political Science

Representation

Decades of Research on Gender in Politics Have Yet to Reach Consensus

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Meta-Analysis

Factorial Experiments

Gender Gap Politics

Candidate Choice Studies

Why Probabilities Give a Better Measure of Electoral Competitiveness

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2021

Electoral Competitiveness

Re-election Probability

Multiparty Systems

Sweden

Comparative Elections

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Logical Model Predicts When Minority Candidates Run — And When They Win

Descriptive Representation

Redistricting

Voting Rights

Louisiana

Logical Model

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Short-Term Money Woes Reduce Voter Turnout, Natural Experiment Shows

Turnout

Poverty

Financial Hardship

Natural Experiment

Germany

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Does Political Alignment Affect How Voters Respond to Natural Disasters?

Retrospective Voting

Electoral Accountability

Political Alignment

India State Assembly

Weather Conditions

CPS

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Malapportionment vs. Electoral Fraud: Why Incumbents Use Both

Malapportionment

Electoral Fraud

Incumbent Advantage

Countries

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Limited Legal Change, Substantive Policy Shift: Examining Citizens United's Corporate Impact

Citizens United

Institutional Change

Synthetic Controls

Supreme Court Decisions

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How Campaign Dynamics Shift Across House, Senate, and Presidential Races

Campaign Effects

Comparative Analysis

House Races

Senate Elections

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Civic Duty vs. Voting Behavior Under Autocracy: A Complex Relationship

Civic Duty

Voting Behavior

Autocratic Regimes

Electoral Politics

Voter ID Debate: What Experts Disagree On

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United States

Voter ID Law

Comparative Analysis

Voting Rights

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Why Do Campaign Ads Escalate During Tight Races?

Electoral Competition

Negative Campaigning

Descriptive Representation

Poll Data

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Surprising Media Bias in Election Coverage: How Issue Ownership Skews Negativity

Campaign Negativity

Austria Election

Issue Ownership Bias

GERGM Analysis

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Do As I Say or Do As I Do? Relationships Shape Voting Norm Impact

Descriptive Norms

Injunctive Norms

Voting Behavior

Relationships

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Do Voters Benchmark Economic Performance?

Economic Benchmarking

Descriptive Representation Gap

US Voters

Election Cycles

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Multiracial Candidates Gain Cross-Group Support at Expense of Strong-Incident Voters

Multiracial Candidates

Racial Identification

Descriptive Representation

Survey Experiment

Foreclosure Fallout Didn't Change Voters' Incumbent Preferences

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US Foreclosure Crisis

Voter Turnout Patterns

Representation Theories

County-Level Analysis

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Postal Voting Equalizes Turnout but Skews Representation in Swiss Referendums

Postal Voting

Swiss Referendums

Political Representation

Turnout Mobilization

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Top-Two Primaries Boost Moderation, But Elite Candidates Avoid It

Top-two Primary

Ideological Moderation

Same-party Challenge

Regression Discontinuity

California Politics

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Income Equality Boosts Voter Support for Gender-Neutral Language Amendments

Gender Neutral Language

California Proposition 11

Income Parity Voters

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Fiscal Rules Don't Depress Turnout: New Evidence Challenges Policy Confinement Theories

Fiscal Rules

Turnout Inequality

Difference-In-Discontinuity

Italy

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Voters Penalize Merkel’s Anger — But Reward Her Emotional Warmth

Gender

Role Congruity

Video Analysis

Germany

Debates

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How Simple Choices and Noise Make Compactness Tests Unreliable for Detecting Gerrymanders

Compactness

Gerrymandering

Redistricting

Computational Methods

Judicial Standards

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Information Access Changes Voting Patterns in US Elections

Broadband

Partisanship

Split-ticket Voting

United States

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How can we measure legislative district compactness by simply seeing it?

Legislative District Compactness

You Know It When You See It

Survey Methodology

Model Prediction

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Longer Tenures Reduce Economic Voting: A Counterintuitive Look at Incumbency

Bayesian Learning

Denmark

Incumbency Tenure

Economic Voting

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Lattice Algorithms Reveal Dangers of Ignoring Spatial Data in Gerrymanders

Gerrymandering

Lattice

Monte Carlo

Redistricting

Isoperimetry

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Why Educated Voters Adopt Internet Ballots Even With Small Usage? Switzerland Study Finds Modest Error Reduction

Electronic Voting Systems

Voter Mistakes

Geneva Canton

Difference-in-Differences Estimation

Internet Ballots

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Unemployment Milestones Shape Media Coverage; Governors' Elections Show Asymmetric Impact

Left-digit Bias

Milestone Effects

Media Coverage

U.S. Governors

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Hazy Healthcare Stances in Campaigns Can Backfire, New Analysis Finds

Ambiguity

Healthcare Policy

Voter Perception

2020 Election

Campaign Strategy

PS

Campaign Visits Ignite Donations: What We Saw in 2016

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Campaign Visits

U.S. Presidential Election

Donation Patterns

Regression Analysis

3 Stata files

How National Thresholds Drive Electoral Disproportionality Across European Systems

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Thresholds

Disproportionality

Seat Allocation

MAP-EM

Europe

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Off-Cycle Elections Misalign Governance With Voters' Median Preferences

Off-Cycle Elections

Mass-Elite Congruence

California School Boards

Median Voter

STEM Backgrounds Enter Congress: Why Are Women Surpassing Men?

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STEM Politics

Women Legislators

US Elections

Democratic Candidates

Gender Gap

PS

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Postal delays expose partisan vulnerability in Maine's vote-by-mail system

Vote-by-mail

USPS

Partisan Disparity

Election Day Delivery

7 R files

4 text files

Partisan spaces fuel social mobilization: What drives collective action?

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Partisan Spaces

Social Mobilization

Political Engagement

Collective Action

Strict Voter ID Laws Don't Stop Voters — Mobilization Filled the Gap

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Voter ID

Turnout

Mobilization

Panel Data

Difference-in-differences

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Understanding Clause Cut Black Voter Registration by 30 Percentage Points

Understanding Clause

Voter Registration

Historical Disenfranchisement

Louisiana Parishes

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Problem With Data on Election Violence

Election Violence Data

Measurement Error

Geocoding Accuracy

Rural Areas

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Terrorism's Election Influence? New Analysis Finds No Significant Effect in US

Terrorism

US Elections

Randomized Experiment

Voting Behavior

Panel Data Reveals Prejudice Activation's Surprising Impact on 2016 Presidential Votes

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Prejudice

Presidential Election

Panel Data

Activation

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Poll Releases Boost Turnout Intentions by 5%

Turnout

Polls

Regression Discontinuity

Local Randomization

Natural Experiment

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Women Don't Turn Out As Often as Men For European Parliament Elections?

European Parliament

Gender Gap Voter Turnout

Cultural Factors Political Science

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Complex Candidate Names Predict Lower Vote Shares Under Japan's Unique Electoral System

Electoral Systems

Descriptive Representation

Ballot Complexity

Japan

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Surprise Elections Boost Incumbent Advantage Beyond Economic Factors

Surprise Elections

Japanese Politics

Descriptive Representation

Strategic Timing

CPS

1 R files

4 other files

Political Ambition Not Enough? Mothers' Economic Roles Hurdle Candidacy Despite Desire for Office

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Breadwinning

Motherhood

Candidacy

Descriptive Representation

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Amendment Four Restored Rights But Didn’t Increase Voter Turnout Nearby

Turnout

Amendment Four

Florida

Disenfranchisement

Record Linkage

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Twins on the Ballot: Why Identical Candidates Boost Voter Turnout

Candidate Similarity

Voting Behavior

U.S. Elections

Ballot Design

Court Rulings Mid-Campaign Yield Surprising Leader-Follower Dynamics

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Court Ruling

Mid-campaign

Leadership

Dynamics

5 other files

Vote Expectations Predict Elections Better Than Intention Polls

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Voter Expectations

British Elections

Prediction Accuracy

Poll Comparison

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Minority Visibility in Advanced Democracies: The Persistent Underrepresentation of LGBTQ Candidates

Descriptive Representation

LGBTQ+

Advanced Democracies

Candidate Selection

Regression Analysis

3 R files

Depression Fuels Voter Punishment of Politicians

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Voter Psychology

Public Mood

Punishment Mechanism

US Elections

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Ghent's Vote at 16 Experiment: Increased Attention But Not Overall Engagement

Ghent

Belgium

Voting Age

Adolescent Engagement

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Unequal Treatment in Florida's Voting Lines Linked to Lower Turnout

Voting Lines

Florida Elections

Minority Voters

Check-in Wait Times

CNN Accuracy Revolution: Better Measuring Electoral Violence via Social Media

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Electoral Violence

CNN Analysis

Social Media Data

Qualitative Coding

PSR&M

Electoral Incentives Don't Deter Ethnocentric Responsiveness in Danish Politics

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Ethnocentric Responsiveness

Electoral Incentives

Candidate Selection

Denmark

Field Experiment

i

Understanding Voter Compassion Views

Voter Perception

Compassion Politics

Candidates Office

Us

i

2020

Queens County Election Shows Voters Misjudge Candidates by Wealth

Candidate Perception

Wealth Bias

Descriptive Representation

Queens County

i

Audit Reveals Thousands of Florida Voters Assigned to Wrong Districts

Audit

Voter File

Districting

Election Administration

Florida

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Does Local Economic Performance Hold Politicians Accountable at All Levels?

Retrospective Voting

Multilevel Government

County Economy

U.S Elections

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Campaigns Matter as Much? Structural Models Hold Steady Despite Voter Shifts

Structural Models

Voters Behavior

Campaign Strategy

Predictive Power

i

Gender Identity and Voter Registration: A Surprising Disparity Despite Legal Equality

Gender Identity

Voter Registration

Electoral Participation

USA

i

Why Do Unemployed Voters Get Angrier When Rates Are Lower?

Opportunity Costs

Anger Politics

Survey Experiment

Descriptive Representation

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High Income Boosts Smart Perception, But Voters Still Prefer Less Wealthy Candidates

Income Bias

Congressional Elections

Voter Perception

Experimental Design

Survey vs Field: Why Corrupt Politicians' Vote Share Varies Dramatically

i

Corruption Information

Voter Accountability

Survey Experiment

Field Experiment

i

Does Ballot Box Position Influence Your Vote Choice? Quasi-Experimental Evidence

Cue-Taking

Satisficing

Ballot Design

USA Elections

Canadian Politics

i

Threatening Votes? Purge Attempts Boosted Hispanic Participation According to Study

Franchise Threat

Difference-in-difference Analysis

Voter Purge

Hispanics

i

Why Do Celebrities Risk Political Tweets? Examining Twitter Engagement Costs

CelebritiesInPolitics

TwitterAnalysis

2016Election

POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT

CAMPAIGN SURROGATES

FOLLOWER INTERACTION

DONALD TRUMP

Why Does Ballot Ink Matter in Elections? Insight From a Partial Democracy

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Electoral Ink

Partial Democracy

Country X

Regression Analysis

i

Candidate Qualifications Still Matter in Low-Info Elections?

Descriptive Representation

Low Information Elections

Democratic Context

Quantitative Analysis

i

How Do Voters Overcome Impulsiveness? New Insights on Present Bias

Present Bias

Voter Turnout

Intention Gap

Democratic Participation

i

Why Do Voters Care About Happiness? Well-being Predicts Election Outcomes Better Than GDP.

Happiness

Elections

Regression Analysis

Economic Voting Theory

i

How Many House Seats Does Partisan Redistricting Control Really Influence?

Redistricting Control

Institutional Effects

Preclearance Impact

VRA Implementation

1 R files

Cash Windfalls Didn’t Move Parents’ Votes, But Boosted Children’s Turnout

i

Turnout

Income Intervention

Human Capital

Intergenerational

United States

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Why Electing Women Changes Your Vote—New Data Reveals Surprising Ideological Shifts in US Elections

Ideology

Gender Gap

US Elections

Descriptive Representation

i

Group Identity Fuels Individual Voting: Why Voters Go Together

Group Identity

Voting Behavior

Individual Motivation

Democratic Participation

5 Stata files

Campaign Practitioner Personality Impacts Trust in Electoral Integrity

i

Campaign Integrity

Practitioner Personality

Charisma Theory

Competence Model

i

Why Do Local Politicians Help National Candidates? The Copartisan Dilemma Explained

Local Politicians

National Candidate Support

Motivational Incentives

Mexican Elections

i

How Does Local Unemployment Drive Presidential Votes?

Local Unemployment

Presidential Voting

Regression Analysis

United States

i

Why Measuring Electoral Competitiveness Depends on Votes Versus Seats

Electoral Competition

Vote-share

Proportional Representation

Single-member

Measurement

Stars Align for Messi and Ronaldo: Partisanship Fuels Sports Celebrity Contests

i

Ballon D'Or

Partisanship

Soccer Stars

Electoral Competition

More Important, But Less Influential? Voter Priorities vs Salience

i

Subjective Importance

Voter Priorities

Electoral Behavior

i

Same-Party Candidates, Fewer Votes? Examining Undervoting after Top-Two Primaries Adoption

Top-Two Primary

Orphan Voters

Undervoting

California

Party Primaries Don't Necessarily Drive Polarization

i

Descriptive Representation

Policy Attitudes

Voter Turnout

Party Membership

i

US Presidential Election: How Rare Is Double Voting Really?

Double Voting

U.S.

2012 Election

Social Security Numbers

i

Minority Candidates Boost Donor Diversity Despite Funding Challenges

Campaign Finance

Ethnoracial Representation

Regression Discontinuity

Difference-in-Differences

US Elections

i

Lower Voter Turnout With Internet Ballots—A Surprising Outcome in Elections

Internet Voting

Voter Turnout

Survey Experiment

Voter Engagement

i

When Courts Step Back, Legislatures Can Fix Gerrymandering With Automation

Gerrymandering

Redistricting

Compactness

Simulation

Representation

2 other files

Youthful Voters Navigating Early Political Knowledge Challenges

i

Voting Age

Youth Political Knowledge

Early Voting Competence

Violence's Enduring Grip on American Elections

i

Voter Suppression

Jim Crow South

Lynching

Rational Choice

Post-Reconstruction

U.S. States

Regression Discontinuity

Identity Matters: Strategic Discrimination Skews Electability Perceptions

i

Strategic Discrimination

Intersectionality

US Elections

Black Women

Field Experiments

Donors to barely winning candidates change their voting patterns even if not re-elected

i

Campaign Contributions

Regression Discontinuity Design

Electoral Behavior

6 R files

How Does Partisan Gerrymandering Harm Political Parties Long-Term?

i

Gerrymandering

Partisan Advantage

Regression Discontinuity

Candidate Selection

Voter Knowledge vs Heuristics: New Insights from Information Search

i

Voter Heuristics

Information Search

Election Behavior

Experimental Design

i

Vote Tally Inconsistencies: Nonpartisan Errors and Their Impact on Mexican Elections

Mexico

Vote Tallying

Poll Workers

Electoral Trust

i

Defining Partisan Fairness in District Elections: A New Statistical Approach

Partisan Symmetry

District Design

Statistical Inference

Fair Representation

i

Opposing Campaigns Adopted Different Strategies Despite Similar Social Media Activity

@UKTogether

Tweet Sentiment

Leaders' Debates

i

Separation of Powers and Voter Behavior: Why Incumbents Win When Both Sides Share Budget Blame

Separation Powers

Voter Uncertainty

State Level Data

Budget Outcomes

i

How Romanian Voters Choose Lesser Evils? New Experiment Reveals Tolerance for Different Political Malfeasances

Conjunt Experiment

Ral Autonomy Infrigment

Punishment Variation

Romnia Campaign

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Why Do Opposition Parties Get More Media Attention? A Look at Campaign Messaging

Agenda Setting Theory

Gatekeeping Model

ICPSR Dataset

Parliamentary Politics

i

2019

Does Voter Inconsistency Undermine Spatial Voting Theory?

Spatial Voting

Inconsistent Beliefs

2008 Election

Political Representation

i

Voter Registration Rejections Soar Near Election Day in Florida

Florida Voter Rejection

County-level Data

Election Day Surge

Voter Fraud

Minority Candidates Don't Boost Turnout Among Minorities

i

Descriptive Representation

Substantive Representation

African American Voters

Redistricting

PSR&M

Why Initiative 'No' Ads Work Better on Voters

i

Status Quo Bias

Ballot Initiatives

Framing Effect

Survey Experiments

Elections

Misreported Voting Masks Gender and Ethnic Turnout Gaps in Denmark

i

Turnout

Overreporting

Nonresponse

Denmark

Administrative Data

i

Campaign Cost Increases Accountability When Partisan Imbalance is High

Campaign Cost

Partisan Imbalance

Accountability

Representation

i

Two U.S. Electoral Integrity Measures: A Surprising Lack of Correlation Across States

Electoral Integrity

U.S. States

Comparative Analysis

Citizen Perception

Compulsory Voting Changes Hands of Reluctant Voters: A New Look at Ideological Alignment

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Compulsory Voting

Ideological Proximity

Voters Behavior

Election Participation

i

Challengers vs Incumbents: Why Gender Matters in Judicial Elections

Electoral Advantage

Challenger Elections

Judicial Politics

Gender Effects

Does Partisan Self-Interest Dictate Election Reform? Experimental Insights on Voting Cost Changes

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Partisan Interest

Election Reform

Voting Behavior

Field Experiment

i

The 2016 North Carolina General Election: How Early Voting Changes Impacted Turnout

Early Voting

Voter Turnout

North Carolina

2016 Election

i

Economic Perceptions Drive Elections? A New Look at Voter Behavior in Brazil

Economic Perceptions

Electoral Choices

Brazil

Egotropic Voting

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Immigrant-Origin Candidates Face Discrimination at Polling Places in US

Electoral Discrimination

Immigrant-Origin Candidates

Voter ID Laws

Political Representation

i

Criminal Justice Contact, Not Family Matters, Drives Voting Behavior Shifts?

Criminal Justice Contact

Voting Behavior

Households

Desistance Theory

i

How Polls Plus Fundamentals Improve Multiparty Election Forecasts

Multiparty

Bayesian

Polls

Forecasting

Coalitions

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Why Do Men Vote for Extreme Parties? Gendered Heuristics in Electoral Behavior

Gender Gap

Heuristic Theory

Social Cues

Comparative Study Electoral Systems

Physical limitations don't affect voting, but self-rated health and depression do.

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Self Rated Health

Depression

Turnout Decline

Early Voting

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Closer elections get fewer invalid ballots? New study finds evidence of rational effort by officials

Close Elections

Rational Effort Theory

Italian Elections Data

Invalid Ballots Detection

i

Local Economic Shocks Shifted Hungarian Election Results

Hungary

Administrative Data

Economic Shocks

Electoral Outcomes

i

Brief Jail Spells Disproportionately Reduce Voting Among Black Defendants

Voter Demobilization

Experimental Design

Black Defendants

First-time Offenders

i

Is voter convenience worth the trade-off?

Field Experiment

Downloadable Ballot

Early Voting

Convenience Voting

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Aggressive Campaign Metaphors Boost Or Bust Voter Turnout—Depends On Your Personality

Voter Mobilization

Personality Traits

Aggressive Metaphors

Survey Experiments

i

State Supreme Court Retainers: High Costs Boost Turnout but Hurt Incumbents

Retention Elections

Voter Turnout

Partisan Competition

Supreme Court

Poll watchers boost own vote: Parties strategically deploy monitors to influence election outcomes

i

Descriptive Representation

Mexico

Game Theory

Polling Station Monitors

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Compulsory Voting Spurs Blank Ballots: Why the Disengaged Do Distrust

Compulsory Voting

Survey Data

Blank Ballots

Spoiled Ballots

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Intersection of Gender Identity and Political Support: Explaining Women's Backlash Against Progress

Intersectionality Theory

Racial Resentment

White Working-class Women

College Educated Voters

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Gender Gap Fluctuates Dramatically Depending on Context: A Surprising Look at Voter Preferences

Gender Gap

Electoral Politics

Survey Experiment

Voter Preferences

i

Gendered Impacts of War in Politics

Militarized Disputes

Incumbent Voting

Gender Differences

Partisan Trespassing: How Gender Shapes Election Interference Effects

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Partisan Trespassing

Gender Bias In Politics

Election Interference

Campaign Security

i

AI Detects Election Fraud: 1988 Mexico's Hidden Ballots Revealed

Convolutional Neural Networks

Mexican Elections

1988 Electoral Fraud

Ai Auditing

i

TV Boosts Votes? New Evidence Challenges Old Assumption

Public Broadcasting

Voter Turnout

Norway Rollout

Geographic Variation

Instrumental Variable

Regression Analysis

5 Stata files

Why Do Parties Favor White Women? Primary Election Analysis Finds No Minority Bias

i

Descriptive Representation Theory

White Women Candidates

Democratic Primaries

Race And Gender Bias

i

Election Watchers' Criticisms Can Fuel Post-Election Violence in Africa

Election Observation

International Condemnation

Post-Election Violence

Sub-Saharan Africa

ISQ

i

Gerrymandering's Impact on Congressional Seats Revealed by Computer Simulations

Gerrymander

Algorithm

Partisan Safety

U.S.

2 R files

2 Text

Vote Centers Boost Turnout in Low Participation Elections: A Texas Study

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Vote Centers

Voter Turnout

Election Type

Texas

This Means Voters Choose Victorious Groups Despite Past Violence

i

Military Power

El Salvador

Security Voting

Competence Claim

i

New Study Reveals How Citizens' Daily Economic Interactions Shape Political Behavior

Context Priming

Denmark

Individual-Level Panel Survey

Housing Market

i

ANES Overestimates Voter Turnout — Overreporting Explains Most

Turnout

ANES

Overreporting

Nonresponse

Voter Files

i

More Detail Boosts Voter Approval For Tax Increases On Ballot

Framing Effects

Ballot Propositions

Experimental Data

Tax Increases

Beyond Ballots: Voter Abstention Takes Two Forms Under Brazil's Compulsory Election Law

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2018

Compulsory Voting

Brazil

Bayesian Regression

Voter Abstention

i

New Algorithm Finds Mississippi, Virginia, Texas Maps Unlikely From Neutral Redistricting

Redistricting

Algorithm

Majority-minority

Simulation

Texas

i

High Political Ad Prices May Help Extremists - New Study Reveals

Agency Problems

Media Buying

Advertising Expenditure Markups

Ideological Alignment

i

Presidential Campaigns Boost Voter Turnout by 7-8 Percentage Points on Average

Presidential Campaigns

Voter Mobilization

Geographic Analysis

Media Markets

i

Candidate Choice Without Party Labels: New Insights from Conjoint Survey ExperimentsPol. Behav.

i

Why Do Extreme Candidates Enter Races More Often? An Experimental Insight

Candidate Entry

Political Polarization

Citizen Candidate Model

Ideal Points

APSR

Voting Mandate Boosts Anti-Democracy Sentiment? Insight into Compulsory Ballot Effects

i

Compulsory Voting

World Values Survey

Natural Experiment

Democratic Dissatisfaction

Diverse Voters Face Coordination Challenges in District Elections

i

Constituency Diversity

District Magnitude

Voter Coordination

Cross-national Analysis

i

Does Ideological Proximity Reduce Voting? New Evidence on U.S. House Elections

Ideological Proximity

Us House Elections

Strategic Voting Theory

Elector Expectations

i

Hitler's Speeches: Surprisingly Minimal Impact on Nazi Election Success

Propaganda Effectiveness

Nazi Germany Elections

Hitler Speeches Impact

Difference-in-differences Analysis

i

Endorsements sway 'no' votes but don't affect roll-off on Florida ballot measures

Newspaper Endorsements

Florida Ballot Measures

Roll-off Analysis

Voter Turnout

Voters Reward Spending Growth And Fiscal Health In Gubernatorial Elections

i

Fiscal Health

Spending Growth

Economic Voting

Unified Government

Hookworm Eradication As a Natural Experiment for Schooling and Voting in the American SouthPol. Behav.

i

i

Media Focus on Fraud Backfires: Heightens Concerns Mostly Among Republicans

Descriptive Representation

Partisan Perception Gap

Media Coverage

American Elections Survey

Republicans

Concurrent Elections Boost Voter Turnout: A 10 Percentage Point Increase in Germany

i

Concurrent Elections

Voter Turnout Increase

Germany Low-salience

Regression Discontinuity

PSR&M

3 archives

Facebook Data Reveals Unexpected Mayoral Vote Patterns in U.S. Elections

i

Ideology

Vote Choice

Facebook Surveys

U.S.

i

Voter Mobilization Boosts Political Information: New Evidence

Voter Participation

Information Acquisition

Field Experiment

Political Knowledge

i

Door-Knocking Yields Smaller Boost in UK Voter Turnout Than Leaflets Alone

GOTV Experiment

Leaflet Effect

UK Voter Turnout

i

Private Ballot Secrecy Ads Boost Election Turnout, Two Experiments Show

Ballot Secrecy

Voter Turnout Experiment

2014 Midterm Elections

Private Nonpartisan Mailing

i

Conservative Leaflets Outmaneuver Personal Visits in Election Game

Voter Contact

Leafleting

Partisan Advantage

Experimental Design

i

Campaign Attacks Expose Gender Stereotypes

Gender Stereotypes

Descriptive Representation

Negative Ads

Mixed Methods

i

Petition Canvassing: Rational Strategies Follow Inefficient Paths

Rational Prospector Model

Homophily

Wisconsin State Data

NYC Historical Records

Geocoded Signatories

i

National vs. Local: Why Party Disparity Hinders Legislative Moderation

Spatial Competition

Descriptive Representation

Nomination Process

National/Local Asymmetry

Legislative System

i

Electoral Rules: A Clash of Predictions Between Behavior and Equilibrium

Electoral Rules

Behavioral Models

Primary Elections

Candidate Divergence

i

Public Campaign Money May Harm Diversity of Candidates and Officials

Campaign Finance

Connecticut

Difference-in-Differences

SES Diversity

Why Negative Views Condition Partisan Media Exposure in Campaign Ads

i

Campaign Ad Targeting

Conditional Media Exposure

Partisan Media Bias

Negative Perception

i

Shared Loyalties Boost Voter Turnout: A Household Study in Great Britain

Relational Selective Consumption

Shared Partisanship

Great Britain

Household Survey

5 other files

Election Violence Ups Incumbent Chances But Could Spark Post-Election Chaos

i

Election Violence

Incumbent Victory

Collective Action

Post-Election

i

The Impact of Procedural Information Costs on Voting: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in ChilePol. Behav.

5 Stata files

Campaign Contact Fails to Persuade: 49 Field Experiments Show Minimal Impact in General Elections

i

Field Experiments

General Elections

Campaign Contact

Persuasive Effects

i

New study finds parenting newly enfranchised voters significantly boosts parental turnout

Regression Discontinuity Design

Trickle-Up Socialization

Danish Municipalities

Voter Turnout

i

Natural Disasters Shape Election Outcomes: A Governor's Response Test

Retrospective Voting

Gubernatorial Elections

Natural Disaster

Response Effectiveness

1 R files

Why Extreme Candidates Boost Opponent Turnout, Not Their Own: An Election Study

i

Regression Discontinuity

US House Elections

Extreme Ideology

Moderate Candidates

i

2017

Beyond the Household Walls: How Partisan Disagreements Boost UK Votes

Electoral Mobilization

Partisan Disagreement

Spillover Experiment

UK

i

Are Voters Mobilized by a 'Friend-and-Neighbor' on the Ballot? Evidence from a Field ExperimentPol. Behav.

Campaigns' Overconfidence Outweighs Fear in Election Predictions

i

Campaign Perception

Incumbency Advantage

Optimism Bias

2012 Election

i

Budget Battles Boost Extremist Fundraising in California

California

Budget Shutdowns

Extremism

Fundraising

Courting the Women's Vote: The Emotional, Cognitive, and Persuasive Effects of Gender-Based Appeals in Campaign AdvertisementsPol. Behav.

i

i

Economic Voting Nuances Reveal Voters Prioritize Personal Finances Too

Economic Voting

Income Registry Data

Partisan Bias

Voter Myopia

i

Relief Didn’t Save Hoover: 1927 Flood Cut His Vote by Over 10 Points

Disasters

Elections

Retrospective Voting

1927 Flood

Synthetic Control

i

Do Moderate Voters Weigh Candidates' Ideologies? Voters' Decision Rules in the 2010 Congressional ElectionsPol. Behav.

New Research Finds Democratic Consolidation Doesn't Depress Voter Turnout

i

Democratic Consolidation

Voter Turnout

Post-Communist Regimes

Election Founding

i

How Machine Learning Reveals Fraud in Argentina's Infamous Decade

Electoral Fraud

Synthetic Data

Naive Bayes

Argentina

Vote Counts

i

Prop 23 Voting: Do Smarter Californians Rely More on Candidate Images?

Candidate Image

Political Knowledge

Proposition 23

California Climate

i

Indifferent Voters Lean on Gut Reactions: New Study Uncovers Political Decision-Making Dynamics

Implicit Attitudes

Voter Indifference

Dual Process Theory

Political Psychology

i

Conservatives Aren't Naturally Biased Against Female Candidates—Here's How to Elect More Women

Field Experiments

Supply Side

Demand Side

Gender Bias

Republican Party

i

Face-Saving Responses Reduce Turnout Overreporting... But Not Always By Much

Face-saving Responses

Electoral Abstention

Subnational Elections

Survey Methodology

i

Do Ideologically Sophisticated Donors Favor Same-Party Candidates?

Ideological Donors

Candidate Differentiation

FEC Professions

Committee Effects

i

How Election Format Shapes Donations to State Supreme Courts

Judicial Elections

Partisan Systems

Nonpartisan Elections

Supreme Court Campaigns

Beyond Personal Attributes: Elite Social Ties Boost Voting Behavior

i

Descriptive Representation

Social Proximity Effect

Alexandria VA Elections

Newport KY Municipal Data

i

Open vs Closed Lists: Why Divided Parties Gain in UK Elections

Proportional Representation

Open List Elections

Closed List Elections

UKIP

Conservative Party

Experimental Evidence

i

Partisan Primaries Drive Candidate Extremism: A New Look at Primary Electorates

Primaries

Ideology

Candidate Selection

CCES

i

Radio Public Service Announcements and Voter Participation Among Native Americans: Evidence from Two Field ExperimentsPol. Behav.

i

New View: Do Normal Votes Clash with Personal Ones? Not If You Measure Performance, Experts Say

Pluralism Theory

Legislative Professionalism

US State Elections

Quantitative Analysis

Childhood Economic Exposure Sparks Adult Voting Behavior: A Norwegian Natural Experiment

i

Economic Boom

Rogaland

Voting Behavior

Difference-In-Differences

Open Lists Boost Voter Participation in Spain, Study Finds

i

Open List System

Regression Discontinuity Design

Voter Turnout

Spain

i

Partisan Redistricting Boosts Election Competition During Favorable National Tides

Partisan Gerrymandering

Election Waves

Congressional Competition

Dummymander

Free Voter Registration Visits Boosted Participation Unequally in 2012 French Elections?

i

Voter Registration

France

Randomized Experiment

Political Participation

i

Who Votes for the Future? Information, Expectations, and Endogeneity in Economic VotingPol. Behav.

i

2016

Strict Voter ID Laws Amplify Partisan Confidence Divides

Electoral Reform

Voter Identification Laws

Partisan Polarization

2014 US States

Minority Voters' Turnout Soars as Their Population Grows: Candidate Ethnicity Not the Key Factor

i

Minority Voters

Candidate Race

District Composition

Descriptive Representation

i

Diverse Legislators Boost Turnout: Race vs Gender Matters in Representation

Descriptive Representation

Race

Gender

Voter Turnout

U.S. States

Combat Deaths Boost Voter Participation: A Psychological Look at War and Elections

i

Mortality Salience

Voter Turnout

Combat Casualties

US

UK

Social Psychology

i

Compulsory Voting Drastically Shifts Election Outcomes in Switzerland

Compulsory Voting

Switzerland

Policy Support

Leftists

i

Intra-Party Politics and Public Opinion: How Candidate Selection Processes Affect Citizens' Satisfaction With DemocracyPol. Behav.

7 datasets

Voting Bites: Experiments Show It Really Does Build Long-Term Election Participation Habits

i

Habit Formation

Voting Behavior

Regression Discontinuity

Election Participation

i

New Data Reveals Interest Groups Are Often Loyal, Not Loose Cannons

Descriptive Representation

Republican Interest Groups

Advertising Strategies

i

Preregistration Boosts Youth Voter Turnout Despite Earlier Doubts

Preregistration

Youth Voters

Cps Data

Florida Elections

i

Negative Campaigning in the Social Media Age: Attack Advertising on FacebookPol. Behav.

Legal Barriers and Party Strength Shape Voter Turnout in Pennsylvania

i

Pennsylvania

Voter Registration Laws

Party Newspapers

Legal-Institutional Barriers

Redistricting Changes Reshape Voter Behavior

i

Redistricting

Voting Behavior

Partisan Gerrymandering

Electoral Boundaries

Race Shapes Voter ID Politics Beyond Party Lines

i

Voter ID

Party Alignment

Black Voters

Southern States

Income-Based Voting Tied to Race, Not Just Economy: New Data Reveals Surprising Regional Patterns

i

Income Partisanship

Racial Context

Voting Records

Old South Regions

How Voters Change Their Minds: Early Polls Predict Election Outcomes Better Over Time

i

Voter Preferences

Polls

Regression Analysis

Election Cycles

i

Less Power Sharing Boosts Turnout? New Insights Into Democratic Elections

Power Sharing

Turnout Patterns

Proportional Representation

Democratic Elections

i

Voting Rights Act Amplifies Latino Representation: The Crucial Role of Implementation

Voting Rights Act

Language Assistance Provisions

Latino Representation

Federal Oversight

i

When the Great Power Gets a Vote: The Effects of Great Power Electoral Interventions on Election ResultsISQ

2 PDF files

Party Labels on Virginia Ballots: A Surprisingly Small Impact on Voter Behavior?

i

2015

Descriptive Representation

Ballot Label Reform

Virginia Elections

Roll-off Rates

How Machine Learning Combines Forensic Tools to Spot Election Irregularities

i

Electoral Forensics

BART

Machine Learning

Electoral Fraud

Cross-national

i

Can Rousseff Build a Governing Coalition After Brazil’s Fragmented 2014 Congress?

Brazil

Congress

Presidentialism

Coalitions

Fragmentation

BPSR

3 Datasets

Ask For Voteshares, Not Winners: Sharper, Less Biased Election Predictions

i

Voteshares

Election Forecasting

Partisan Bias

Political Knowledge

Surveys

i

Larger Dishes Stir More Stew: How District Size Fuels Electoral Contestation

Demography

Democracy

District Level

Multiparty Competition

i

Too Close for Comfort: How Spatial Gaps Affect Party Competition

Spatial Contagion

Geographic Distance

Election Strategy

Candidate Positioning

Tougher Election Laws Lead to Simpler Ballot Measures—and Higher Passage Rates

i

Election Laws

Agenda Setting

Policy Complexity

US States

Electronic Voting Reduced Blank Votes But Altered Null-Vote Competition in Brazil

i

Brazil

Electronic Voting

Blank Votes

Null Votes

1998 Elections

i

Direct Voter Contact Fails: Campaign Agents Misaligned in 2012 Election

Principal Agent Problem

2012 Obama Campaign

Field Agents

Direct Contact

i

Regular vs. marginal voters reveal deep Democratic-Republican divide?

Voter Mobilization

Partisanship Gap

Regular Voters

Marginal Voters

i

Shared Identity Boosts Effort, But Hides Competence Among Voters

Social Identity

Electoral Accountability

Adverse Selection

Laboratory Experiment

i

Voter Learning Unveiled: Primary Campaigns Shape Ideology, Not Just Ballot Choice

Voter Learning

Primary Elections

Ideological Shifts

State Politics

Local Election Officials Show Discrimination in Voter Information

i

Voter Id Laws

Ethnic Discrimination

Field Experiment

Election Information

i

Income Doesn't Predict Voting Behavior: What Really Drives Political Engagement Globally

Turnout Inequality

Fiscal Exposure

Rational Choice

Countries

Lazy People

Voter Turnout

Comparative Analysis

i

2014

Elections and Deceptions: Why Campaign Promises Influence Official Behavior

Democratic Accountability

Behavioral Effects

Psychological Costs

Lab Experiment

i

Electoral Choice Increasingly Polarized, Decreasing Voter Participation: A Surprising New Look at Ideology

Descriptive Representation

United States

Citizen Survey

Voter Turnout

i

How Surname Polling Stations Reveal Ongoing Election Fraud in Mexico

Regression Discontinuity

Mexico

Elections

i

Holding City Elections With National Races Makes Local Electorates More Representative

Election Timing

Turnout

Representation

California

Microtargeting

i

Unexpected Decline in Voting After Spouse Loss

Widowhood Effect

California Voter Records

Coarsened Exact Matching

Social Isolation

10 text files

A Field Experiment Reveals How Ballot Secrecy Information Boosted First-Time Voter Turnout

i

2013

Ballot Secrecy

Voting Behavior

Field Experiment

Prior Non-voters

i

Why Precise Party Reputations Drive Up Spending in Marginal U.S. House Races

Incumbency Advantage

Precise Party Brand

Campaign Spending

Marginal Districts

U.S.-House-Elections

i

Name Recognition Still Matters for Lesser-Known Candidates

Name Recognition

Electoral Viability

Laboratory Experiments

Incumbency

Voters Prefer Election-Year Economy Over Cumulative Growth?

i

Election Economy

Voter Judgment

End Heuristic

Retrospective Assessment

Timing Matters: When Do PACs Contribute to Incumbent U.S. House Members?

i

2011

PAC Contributions

U.S. House Elections

1993-94 Cycle

Split-Population Models

Web Sites Reveal Campaign Secrets: A New Look at US Congressional Elections

i

2009

Campaign Communications

Web Sites Data

U.S Elections Cycles

Risk Attitudes Analysis

i

Land inequality's hidden role in Germany's 19th-century electoral fraud

Land Inequality

Imperial Germany

Universal Suffrage

Regression Analysis

i

2006

Leadership Matters More Than Ideology After Election Debacles

Policy Adoption

Leadership Variable

CEO Actions

Florida Election

Campaign Spending Soars in State Supreme Courts—but Why? New Research Explains the Variation

i

2005

Campaign Spending

Supreme Court Variation

Descriptive Representation

Regression Analysis

States

Nonvoters Lean Democratic, But Full Turnout Rarely Would Flip Elections

i

2004

Turnout

Nonvoters

Propensity Score

NES

Presidential

1 PDF

A New Source of 50-State Campaign Finance Data Addresses Gaps and Variations

i

Campaign Finance

Gubernatorial Elections

Data Compilation

US States