Voting problems, polling places and the private act of voting
2011 study from the CalTech and MIT Voting Technology Project in Public Opinion Quarterly on security and privacy in polling places.
Politics & Government
Research roundups, tip sheets, articles and explainers related to the topic of politics, elections, and local and national governments
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Narrow victories and hard games: Revisiting the primary divisiveness hypothesis
2010 study from the University of Wisconsin on how hard-fought presidential primaries unfold and their implications for the general election.
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Ideological segregation online and offline
2011 study from the University of Chicago on news consumers and content selection, highlighting the different levels of polarization in various contexts.
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Following the rules? Candidate strategy in presidential primaries
2009 paper in Presidential Election Studies on the allocation of campaign resources and correlations with available state delegates.
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Situational gamblers: Prospect theory and presidential campaign management
2011 study from Columbia University on how a psychological theory can help better interpret presidential campaign decisions.
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U.S. obesity trends and neighborhood effects
2011 study in the New England Journal of Medicine on the type of neighborhood in which an individual lives and health outcomes.
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Exit talk in media coverage of past presidential campaigns
2011 study from Political Research Quarterly on the pressures faced by trailing contenders for presidential nominations to leave the race.
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Building blocks of economic complexity
2009 study in PNAS on diversity in developing economies and corresponding potential for growth, based on products produced and their global context.
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Global potential for wind-generated electricity
2009 study by Harvard University and Finland’s VTT Technical Research Centre on the overall global potential for wind-generated power.
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Smallholder diversification and income growth in Zambia
2011 study by University of Gothenburg in Journal of African Economies on Zambia’s structural economic changes.
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