Evaluating the impact of vice presidential selection on voter choice
2010 study from the University of California, Irvine, on the average effect a vice presidential candidate has on the electorate.
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Pew Research: Partisan polarization surges in Bush, Obama years
2012 study by the Pew Research Center on shifts in American political values, including politics, business, immigration and religion, from 1987-2012.
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Perceptions of discrimination and racial policy opinion after Obama
2011 study from the University of Michigan on racial attitudes and perceptions in America immediately before and after Barack Obama’s election.
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A negativity gap? Gender, attack politics and voting in U.S. elections
2010 study from Dartmouth College published in Politics & Genderon the different effects negative campaigns have on men and women.
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One vote out of step? The effects of salient roll-call votes in the 2010 election
2012 study published in American Politics Research on how the health care reform roll-call vote may have hurt Democrats.
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Do voters perceive negative campaigns as informative campaigns?
2010 study in American Politics Research on whether negative advertisements may have a constructive role for voters.
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Opinion formation, polarization and presidential reelection
2009 study from Duke and Wisconsin in Presidential Studies Quarterly on the relationship between political polarization and presidential reelection.
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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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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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