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About Me: Research Interests
- American and comparative politics
- Political behavior
- Voting and elections
- Campaign strategies and advertising
- U.S. state politics
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Still Bored? Recent Research
Discuss reviews of recent political science research at AbstractPolitics.com 
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- Review of Using Experiments to Estimate the Effects of Education on Voter Turnout
- Review of No Middle Ground: How Informal Party Organizations Control Nominations and Polarize Legislatures
- Review of Partisanship, Political Control, and Economic Assessments
- Review of Impartial Judges? Race, Institutional Context, and U.S. State Supreme Courts
- Review of Campaign Communications in U.S. Congressional Elections
- Review of Do Electoral Quotas Work after They Are Withdrawn? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India
- Review of Moral Bias in Large Elections: Theory and Experimental Evidence
- Review of Does Voting History Matter? Analysing Persistence in Turnout
- Review of Delegating Direct Democracy: Interparty Legislative Competition and the Adoption of the Initiative in the American States
- Review of Who is Mobilized to Vote? A Re-Analysis of 11 Field Experiments
Recent Posts
Argh argh argh
Monday, February 1st, 2010. I can see from my site statistics that a lot of people visited the status update form over the weekend. But due to an irritating bug that hit my site [continued ...]
First status update
Friday, January 29th, 2010. Now that week 1 is drawing to a close, remember that your first status update is due today. I don't consider it late as long as you get it done over [continued ...]
Intern social
Friday, January 22nd, 2010. You have all probably heard that on Monday at 5pm there will be an intern social in W30. There will be food. Your attendance is expected.
News and changes
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010. You all should have read about Sen. Killpack's arrest and resignation last week. Today, the Senate Republicans met and chose new leadership (Killpack [continued ...]
Contact your legislators pronto
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010. Legislators are calling Jerry to ask why they haven't heard from their intern yet. Unless they called him to complain, Jerry did not give them your [continued ...]
I've sent out all your assignments
Friday, January 15th, 2010. If you didn't hear from me in the last few minutes, send me an email. (Unless you already received your assignment previously, of course.)
Your assignments are here
Friday, January 15th, 2010. In a few minutes, I will be emailing all of you individually to tell you who you will be working for. Well, most of you. A few of you do not have an [continued ...]
More on group grades
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010. I forgot to mention two things about grades on the group presentations from last week. First, I'm sending out more detailed comments by email. Most of [continued ...]
Group presentation grades
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010. To the old timers: You may log in to the 399r (not 297) website to check your group project grades. Note that there will not be a grade if you have [continued ...]
The "good parts version" of today's orientation
Monday, January 11th, 2010. I tried making an audio recording of today's meetings. After a little while, I realized it wouldn't work well. But I also took notes. Even if you were [continued ...]