Voting and Elections in the Internet Age: Insights from Current Research

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This page features compilations of links to data collections, authors, and journals for political science research on voting and elections.

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Election Law Journal: .Peer-reviewed journal for up-to-date coverage of this evolving area of specialization.

J. of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties: .Publishes research on elections, public opinion, participation and political parties.

Electoral Studies: .International journal dedicated to the study of elections and voting in different parts of the world.

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Voting & Elections Data Sites

U.S. House Election Results Archive: .From the Office of the Clerk, official vote counts in congressional elections since 1920

Federal Election Commission's Campaign Finance Reports and Data: .Some of these files are very large and challenging to work with, but the FEC makes a lot of data available

MIT Election Lab: .Supports advances in election science by collecting, analyzing, and sharing core data and findings.

Daily Kos Elections Datasets: .Daily Kos Elections guide to all of their datasets.

Historical Reported Voting Rates: .Multiple key indicatiors of voter participation at state level since 1960s and 1970s.

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Replication Datasets for New Articles

Am I Obliged to Vote? A Regression Discontinuity Analysis of Compulsory Voting With Ill-Informed VotersMathieu Turgeon, +1 more author (2023) PSRM, more info.
R files: 9, PDF files: 9

Irrelevant Events and Voting Behavior: Replications Using Principles from Open ScienceMatthew Graham, +3 more authors (2023) JOP, more info.
archives: 1, PDF files: 1

Positive Spillovers from Negative CampaigningVincenzo Galasso, +2 more authors (2023) AJPS, more info.
Stata files: 2, datasets: 4, PDF files: 1, text files: 1

Are Voters' Views about Proportional Outcomes Shaped by Partisan Preferences? A Survey Experiment in the Context of a Real ElectionSemra Sevi, +2 more authors (2022) PSRM, more info.
Stata files: 2, datasets: 1, PDF files: 1

Asian American Mobilization: The Effect of Co-ethnic Candidates and Districts on Asian American Voting BehaviorSara Sadhwani (2022) POLBEH, more info.
Stata files: 1, PDF files: 1, datasets: 1

Beaten Ballots: Political Participation Dynamics Amidst Police InterventionsToni Rodon, +1 more author (2022) PSRM, more info.
R files: 2, Stata files: 3, datasets: 11, other files: 3, PDF files: 6

Betting on the Underdog The Influence of Social Networks on Vote ChoiceAnnika Fredén, +2 more authors (2022) PSRM, more info.
R files: 1, PDF files: 2, datasets: 1, text files: 7

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Authors with Datasets

Fouirnaies, Alexander .

Nemoto, Kuniaki .Musashi University, see data page for Korean and New Zealand election data.

Blais, Andr� .University of Montreal

Lublin, David .American University, see data page.

Hassell, Hans .

Hall, Andrew .Stanford University

Smith, Daniel .

Simas, Elizabeth .

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