In The Turnout Gap, Bernard L. Fraga offers the most comprehensive analysis to date of the
causes and consequences of racial and ethnic disparities in voter turnout. Examining voting …

Hacking the Electorate is the most comprehensive study to date about the consequences of
campaigns using microtargeting databases to mobilize voters in elections. Eitan Hersh …

We report the results of a randomized field experiment involving approximately 30,000
registered voters in New Haven, Connecticut. Nonpartisan get-out-the-vote messages were …

We test the possibility that political attitudes and behaviors are the result of both
environmental and genetic factors. Employing standard methodological approaches in …

IT iS APPROPRiATE that in writing a book about how communities affect us, I have been
supported by many people in different, but often overlapping, communities. This book began …

One of the ironies of the behavioral movement in political science is that scholars following
in its wake were more likely to study attitudes than behavior Nonetheless, over the past …

Voting choices are a product of both personal attitudes and social contexts, of a personal
and a social calculus. Research has illuminated the personal calculus of voting, but the …

A survey of the American public is used to model citizen political recruitment as a two-stage
process. First, those who recruit others to become active in politics seek likely activists …

The decision to vote has puzzled scholars for decades. Theoretical models predict little or no
variation in participation in large population elections and empirical models have typically …

Using state-by-state voting data for US presidential elections, we observe that voter turnout
is a positive function of predicted closeness. To explain the strategic component of political …