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Race, Inequality, Policing and the 2020 Election
In terms of the number of participants, protests against racial injustice and police violence that erupted in the summer of 2020 may be the largest protest movement in American history. On September 22, Vincent Hutchings, Shea Streeter and Christian Davenport...
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 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...
Computer simulations reveal partisan gerrymandering
Post developed by Katherine Pearson How much does partisanship explain how legislative districts are drawn? Legislators commonly agree on neutral criteria for drawing district lines, but the extent to which partisan considerations overshadow these neutral criteria is...
Incidental Exposure to Political News Increases Political Knowledge
Post developed by Brian Weeks and Katherine Pearson ICYMI (In Case You Missed It), the following work was presented at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA). The presentation, titled “Can Incidental Exposure to News Close the...
Using Text and Images to Examine 2016 Election Tweets
Post developed by Dory Knight-Ingram ICYMI (In Case You Missed It), the following work was presented at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA). The presentation, titled “Using Neural Networks to Classify Based on Combined Text...
