Social scientists rely on surveys to explain political behavior. From consistent overreporting
of voter turnout, it is evident that responses on survey items may be unreliable and lead …

Political scientists are making increasing use of the methodologies of behavior genetics in
an attempt to uncover whether or not political behavior is heritable, as well as the specific …

Recently, mandatory vote-by-mail has received a great deal of attention as a means of
administering elections in the United States. However, policy-makers disagree on the merits …

In many post-election surveys, the proportion of respondents who claim to have voted is
greater than government-reported turnout rates. These differences have often been …

How do marginal voters differ from regular voters? This article develops a method for
comparing the partisan preferences of regular voters to those marginal voters whose turnout …

To date, field experiments on campaign tactics have focused overwhelmingly on
mobilization and voter turnout, with far more limited attention to persuasion and vote choice …

Public opinion researchers, campaigns, and political scientists often rely on self-predicted
vote to forecast turnout, allocate resources, and measure political engagement. Despite its …

Misreporting is a problem that plagues researchers who use survey data. In this article, we
develop a parametric model that corrects for misclassified binary responses using …

We analyze the effects of a community organizing initiative in low-income public housing on
voter turnout among race-class subjugated communities. Get-out-the-vote campaigns and …

This article compares the determinants of political participation, from voting and signing
petitions to boycotting, across 23 European countries, posing the question whether and to …