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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ORIGINAL PROJECT: U.S. Presidents' Positions on Roll Call VotesPres. Van Buren's Positions:
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A view of the American political system that emphasizes the fact that a large number of diverse interest groups are involved in the political process, and that any given group may be influential on some occasions and not on others.

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How to Show % of Total in PivotTable
Helps create percentages column in frequency distribution table (4:30).

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Confidence Intervals (Using t-Distribution)
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Blogs, Podcasts & Journals

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

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

Census Data Center: .Helpful site from Missouri for advanced analysis of Census data

Congressional District Data: .The data set includes a wide range of economic, social and geographic information for every U.S. congressional district, from 1943-1998.

Constituency-Level Elections Archive: .A repository of detailed election results at the constituency level for lower house legislative elections from around the world

Cooperative Congressional Election Study: .The first truly large-scale academic survey project aimed at studying the midterm Congressional elections.

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New Voting & Elections Articles with Replication Data

Am I Obliged to Vote? A Regression Discontinuity Analysis of Compulsory Voting With Ill-Informed VotersMathieu Turgeon; *André Blais (2023)

Irrelevant Events and Voting Behavior: Replications Using Principles from Open ScienceMatthew Graham; *Gregory Huber; *Neil Malhotra; Cecilia Hyunjung Mo (2023)

Positive Spillovers from Negative CampaigningVincenzo Galasso; Tommaso Nannicini; Salvatore Nunnari (2023)

Are Voters' Views about Proportional Outcomes Shaped by Partisan Preferences? A Survey Experiment in the Context of a Real ElectionSemra Sevi; *André Blais; Carolina Plescia (2022)

Beaten Ballots: Political Participation Dynamics Amidst Police InterventionsToni Rodon; Marc Guinjoan (2022)

Betting on the Underdog The Influence of Social Networks on Vote ChoiceAnnika Fredén; Ludovic Rheault; Indridi Indridason (2022)

Birth Order and Voter TurnoutBernt Bratsberg; Christopher T. Dawes; Andreas Kotsadam; Karl-Oskar Lindgren; Richard Öhrvall; Sven Oskarsson; Oddbjørn Raaum (2022)

Can the Party in Power Systematically Win a Majority in Close Legislative Elections? Evidence from U.S. State AssembliesAjay Shenoy; Dahyeon Jeong (2022)

Civic Education in High School and Voter Turnout in AdulthoodAaron Weinschenk; Christopher T. Dawes (2022)

Democracy and Intensity of Preferences: A Test of Storable Votes and Quadratic Voting on Four California PropositionsAlessandra Casella; Luis Sanchez (2022)

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Authors with Datasets

André Blais .University of Montreal

Alexander Fouirnaies .

Andrew Hall .Stanford University

Hans Hassell .

David Lublin .American University, see data page.

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

Elizabeth Simas .

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