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		<title>Using Experiments to Estimate the Effects of Education on Voter Turnout</title>
		<link>http://abstractpolitics.com/2010/02/using-experiments-to-estimate-the-effects-of-education-on-voter-turnout/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.R.B.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suppose you&#8217;re in a room full of people and you want to know which of them are most likely to be active voters, but you&#8217;re not allowed to ask them about their political activity. The best question you can ask them: How many years of schooling they have. We&#8217;ve known for many years that education [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Middle Ground: How Informal Party Organizations Control Nominations and Polarize Legislatures</title>
		<link>http://abstractpolitics.com/2010/02/no-middle-ground-how-informal-party-organizations-control-nominations-and-polarize-legislatures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hjghassell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The debate on the influence of political parties on the political process until recently has been restricted to parties in government.  Scholars have focused their debate primarily on the impact of party on the actions of a legislator in the legislature.
Masket takes this a step further, arguing that local informal party organizations control nominations and through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Partisanship, Political Control, and Economic Assessments</title>
		<link>http://abstractpolitics.com/2010/02/partisanship-political-control-and-economic-assessments/</link>
		<comments>http://abstractpolitics.com/2010/02/partisanship-political-control-and-economic-assessments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.R.B.</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://abstractpolitics.com/?p=154</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We know that partisanship influences economic evaluations. In survey after survey, we have found that Republicans and Democrats rate the economy differently, yet we still don&#8217;t understand why.
More accurately, we don&#8217;t know which &#8220;why&#8221; is the real &#8220;why.&#8221; Folks who have published evidence of these perceptual biases have also offered lots of different reasons for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Impartial Judges? Race, Institutional Context, and U.S. State Supreme Courts</title>
		<link>http://abstractpolitics.com/2010/01/impartial-judges-race-institutional-context-and-u-s-state-supreme-courts/</link>
		<comments>http://abstractpolitics.com/2010/01/impartial-judges-race-institutional-context-and-u-s-state-supreme-courts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.R.B.</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[descriptive representation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[judicial politics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://abstractpolitics.com/?p=145</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We like to think that in our form of government, political officials represent the citizens at large. Trouble is, it&#8217;s hard to know what &#8220;represent&#8221; means. Often, we talk about representation through two major lenses. &#8220;Descriptive&#8221; representation refers to whether people in government look like Americans generally (in terms of race, gender, maybe even age, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Campaign Communications in U.S. Congressional Elections</title>
		<link>http://abstractpolitics.com/2009/09/campaign-communications-in-u-s-congressional-elections/</link>
		<comments>http://abstractpolitics.com/2009/09/campaign-communications-in-u-s-congressional-elections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.R.B.</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://abstractpolitics.com/?p=121</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve long known that most voters pay little attention to campaign rhetoric; they pay far more attention to partisanship, incumbency, and other easily accessible considerations (although rhetoric certainly has its place). Still, candidates work hard to develop arguments that, they hope, will sway voters to their side.
The question: How do candidates decide what to emphasize [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do Electoral Quotas Work after They Are Withdrawn? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India</title>
		<link>http://abstractpolitics.com/2009/09/do-electoral-quotas-work-after-they-are-withdrawn-evidence-from-a-natural-experiment-in-india/</link>
		<comments>http://abstractpolitics.com/2009/09/do-electoral-quotas-work-after-they-are-withdrawn-evidence-from-a-natural-experiment-in-india/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.R.B.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comparative Politics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://abstractpolitics.com/?p=113</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Women and minorities have a tough time winning American elections. Although half of Americans are female, only 15% of Congress is. Although only 69% of Americans are white, 89% of state legislators and 84% of House members are white.
This problem is not unique to the states. Some countries have adopted a quota system to combat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moral Bias in Large Elections: Theory and Experimental Evidence</title>
		<link>http://abstractpolitics.com/2009/09/moral-bias-in-large-elections-theory-and-experimental-evidence/</link>
		<comments>http://abstractpolitics.com/2009/09/moral-bias-in-large-elections-theory-and-experimental-evidence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.R.B.</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[religion]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://abstractpolitics.com/?p=104</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In late 2003, Howard Dean lamented that southern white guys with confederate flags on their trucks ought to be voting for Democrats; after all, it&#8217;s the Democrats who want to help the working classes. Folks like Dean think that these southern white guys are being duped by wealthy upper-crust Republicans, who trick the southerners into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Voting History Matter? Analysing Persistence in Turnout</title>
		<link>http://abstractpolitics.com/2009/03/does-voting-history-matter-analysing-persistence-in-turnout/</link>
		<comments>http://abstractpolitics.com/2009/03/does-voting-history-matter-analysing-persistence-in-turnout/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.R.B.</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[mobilization]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://abstractpolitics.com/?p=89</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Denny and Doyle have a straightforward point in this article: Yes, voting is habit-forming, but to a lesser extent than reported previously. In a widely discussed article, Gerber, Green, and Shachar (2003) reported that voting in one election raises the probability of voting in subsequent elections by 47%. Denny and Doyle argue that the correct [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Delegating Direct Democracy: Interparty Legislative Competition and the Adoption of the Initiative in the American States</title>
		<link>http://abstractpolitics.com/2009/02/delegating-direct-democracy-interparty-legislative-competition-and-the-adoption-of-the-initiative-in-the-american-states/</link>
		<comments>http://abstractpolitics.com/2009/02/delegating-direct-democracy-interparty-legislative-competition-and-the-adoption-of-the-initiative-in-the-american-states/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.R.B.</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[diffusion]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://abstractpolitics.com/?p=73</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, voters in 24 states can make policy directly through the initiative process. In most of these states, the initiative process was first adopted between 1898 and 1918. Smith and Fridkin seek to explain why only these states, and not others, adopted the initiative.
Previous Work
Because most of the states that adopted the initiative in this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who is Mobilized to Vote? A Re-Analysis of 11 Field Experiments</title>
		<link>http://abstractpolitics.com/2009/02/who-is-mobilized-to-vote-a-re-analysis-of-11-field-experiments/</link>
		<comments>http://abstractpolitics.com/2009/02/who-is-mobilized-to-vote-a-re-analysis-of-11-field-experiments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.R.B.</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://abstractpolitics.com/?p=61</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recent randomized experiments have shown that door-to-door mobilization efforts can have massive payoffs, boosting turnout by 7 to 10 percentage points among those targeted. But although previous studies have shown that mobilization has a large aggregate effect, they have not shown whether mobilization effects some types of voters more than others. Does door-to-door canvassing raise [...]]]></description>
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