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Party System Institutionalization and Stability in Competitive Authoritarian Regimes
ICYMI (In Case You Missed It), the following work was presented at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA). The presentation, titled “Electoral Volatility in Competitive Authoritarian Regimes” was a part of the session “Elections...
The Role of Economic Decline & Malaise in the Rise of Extreme-Nationalist Populism
ICYMI (In Case You Missed It), the following work was presented at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA). The presentation, titled “Local Economic Malaise and the Rise of Anti-Everything Extremism” was a part of the session...
Joint Image-Text Representations Using Deep Learning
ICYMI (In Case You Missed It), the following work was presented at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA). The presentation, titled “Joint Image-Text Classification Using an Attention-Based LSTM Architecture” was a part of the...
The American National Election Study (ANES): History and Insights from Recent Surveys
This year the American National Election Study (ANES) will conduct its 19th time series study of a presidential election. In every U.S. presidential election since 1948, the ANES has conducted pre- and post-election surveys of a large representative sample of American...
Discussing Election Day and Vote by Mail with Michael Traugott
Michael Traugott, research professor at the Center for Political Studies, was featured on the Michigan Minds podcast. In the recording and transcript below, Professor Traugott discusses the timing of the presidential election and whether there are fraudulent concerns...
What We Call Racial Violence Matters – Here’s Why
Our research finds that the label used to describe an act of violence can change perceptions of it. By Kiela Crabtree and Corina Simonelli Kiela Crabtree and Corina Simonelli With the fifth anniversary of the Mother Emanuel A.M.E. Massacre in Charleston, South...
The words that made a difference in the 2016 election
What do voters really learn from the media about presidential candidates? A new book by experts from the University of Michigan, Georgetown University, and Gallup, Inc., Words That Matter: How the News Media Environment Allowed Trump to Win the Presidency, offers...
Not which ones, but how many?
Perspective on research from Guoer Liu, doctoral student in Political Science, and recipient of the 2019 Roy Pierce Award Guoer Liu "Not which ones, but how many" is a phrase used in list experiments instruction, where researchers instruct participants, "After I read...
Regime Threats and State Solutions
Post developed by Katherine Pearson and Mai Hassan. States can exert powerful social control over citizens. In her newly-published book, Regime Threats and State Solutions, Mai Hassan demonstrates how leaders use their authority to manage bureaucrats to advance their...
Maasai Remix
Post developed by Kelly Askew and Katherine Pearson Maasai Remix, a documentary directed by the award-winning team of filmmaker Ron Mulvihill and anthropologist Kelly Askew, follows three Maasai individuals who confront challenges to their community by drawing...
