Republicans want to hand-count paper ballots. That’s less accurate. Charles Stewart III / Managing Editor - May 25, 2022 But expect state legislatures to file bills to ban ballot scanners in 2023 and beyond
Trump wants to investigate purported mass voter fraud. We pre-debunked his evidence Stephen Ansolabehere, Samantha Luks, and Brian Schaffner - January 25, 2017 Update: Here is a letter signed by many political scientists
These were our most widely read posts of 2016 John Sides - December 30, 2016 [caption id="attachment_50632" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Nicole Kirby looks over results during
The Wisconsin recount may have a surprise in store after all Stephen Ansolabehere, Kenneth Mayer, Charles Stewart III, and Barry Burden - December 5, 2016 Thanks to the efforts of Green Party presidential candidate Jill
This is why the Voting Rights Act is on trial in North Carolina Richard Hasen - July 31, 2015 [caption id="attachment_28013" align="aligncenter" width="1484"] President Lyndon B. Johnson goes to
Why we still need to worry about money in politics Lee Drutman - December 15, 2014 [caption id="attachment_19061" align="aligncenter" width="1484"] (bigstockphoto)[/caption] Over at the New York
What’s the best way to run a survey? Joshua Tucker - August 6, 2014 [caption id="attachment_14132" align="aligncenter" width="600"] The home page of YouGov, a
What's the best way to run a survey? Joshua Tucker - August 6, 2014 [caption id="attachment_14132" align="aligncenter" width="600"] The home page of YouGov, a
How political scientists informed the president about election reform Joshua Tucker - January 23, 2014 This is a guest post from University of Wisconsin-Madison political
American elections need help. Here's how to make them better. John Sides - January 22, 2014 [caption id="attachment_5631" align="aligncenter" width="606" special=""] (Jacquelyn Martin/Associated Press)[/caption] This is
American elections need help. Here’s how to make them better. - January 22, 2014 [caption id="attachment_5631" align="aligncenter" width="606" special=""] (Jacquelyn Martin/Associated Press)[/caption] This is
Japan's enduring political inequality just won't go away John Sides - November 27, 2013 [caption id="attachment_3562" align="aligncenter" width="640"] (Oimax/Creative Commons)[/caption] This is a guest
Racial Polarization and the Challenge to the Voting Rights Act John Sides - February 27, 2013 bq. There can be no doubt that the covered jurisdictions
Misreporting Voter Turnout Erik Voeten - October 26, 2012 President Obama is currently leading by as much as 4-5
Voters’ Interests in Campaign Finance Regulation: Formal Models Joshua Tucker - July 2, 2012 Continuing our collaboration with newsletters from sections of the American
Senator Rubio’s Support among Latino Sub-Groups - May 1, 2012 As a recent Time magazine cover and a host of
The Political Consequences of Gas Prices John Sides - March 12, 2012 A new Washington Post poll finds that the public souring
Swing State Economies: Do They Even Matter? John Sides - February 14, 2012 Last week, Ryan Avent noted that the economies of swing
Americans and Innumeracy John Sides - January 8, 2012 In the Wall Street Journal, Carl Bialik mentions some of
This Week in Political Science: Money Edition Jonathan Robinson - November 11, 2011 A central demand of the Occupy Wall Street protests --
Movers, Stayers, and Registration: Why Age is Correlated with Registration in the U.S. Andrew Gelman - September 23, 2011 Stephen Ansolabehere, Eitan Hersh, and Kenneth Shepsle write: Age is
Catalist Academic Subscription John Sides - August 22, 2011 A while back, I posted about some of the data
Fixing Congress: suggestions by Rep. Jim Cooper and others Andrew Gelman - May 13, 2011 Jim Cooper, Democrat of Tennessee, wrote an article for the
More Political Scientists on YouTube John Sides - November 16, 2010 W.W. Norton has added additional videos, supplementing those I noted
Did Controversial Roll Call Votes Doom the Democrats? Eric McGhee - November 5, 2010 Did Obama's ambitious agenda -- specifically, health care reform, the
New Research on Primary Elections John Sides - September 22, 2010 "The first paper":http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1674091 is from Eric McGhee, Seth Masket, Boris
The Demographics of 2010 - September 8, 2010 Last year, political scientists Stephen Ansolabehere and Charles Stewart pointed
Sociotropic Voting and the Media Andrew Gelman - September 5, 2010 Stephen Ansolabehere, Marc Meredith, and Erik Snowberg write: The literature
It’s NOT all about the Benjamins Lee Drutman - October 19, 2009 (this is post #2 in a series on money and
Did “Moral Values” and the Gay Marriage Backlash Play a Key Role in Bush’s 2004 Victory? - December 14, 2007 Journalists (via political pundits)** and political scientists have conflicting accounts
Too Much Money in Campaigns? - December 3, 2007 The NY Times ran an editorial on Sunday lamenting the