Stephen Ansolabehere
Professor of Political Science. Professor Ansolabehere studies elections, democracy, and the mass media. He is coauthor (with Shanto Iyengar) of The Media Game (Macmillan, 1993) and of Going Negative: How Political Advertising Alienates and Polarizes the American Electorate (The Free Press, 1996). His articles have appeared in The American Political Science Review, The British Journal of Politics, The Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Public Opinion Quarterly, The Quill, and Chance. His current research projects include campaign finance, congressional elections, and party politics.
Professor Ansolabehere is also a member of the CalTech/MIT Voting Project, whose first report on the reliability of voting equipment can be found here.
Subjects
- 17.20 | paper topics | syllabus
Introduction to the American Political Process
- 17.264
Dynamics of Electoral Politics
- 17.269
Presidential Elections
- 17.886J
Theory of Collective Choice: Empirical Tests
- 17.872
Quantitative Research in Political Science and Public Policy
- 17.874
Multivariate Political Analysis
Articles
- "Legislative Bargaining Under Weighted Voting"
James M. Snyder, Jr., Michael M. Ting, Stephen Ansolabehere
(pdf, 258kb, pp. 28)
- "Equal Votes, Equal Money: Court-Ordered Redistricting and the Distribution of Public Expenditures in the American States"
Stephen Ansolabehere, Alan Gerber, James M. Snyder, Jr.
(pdf, 1.2mb, pp. 35)
- "Using Term Limits to Estimate Incumbency Advantages When Officeholders Retire Strategically"
Stephen Ansolabehere, James M. Snyder, Jr.
(pdf, 303kb, pp. 33)
- "The Incumbency Advantage in U.S. Elections: An Analysis of State and Federal Offices, 1942-2000"
Stephen Ansolabehere, James M. Snyder, Jr. A revised version of this paper is to appear in the Election Law Journal.
(pdf, 350k, pp. 49)
- "Reapportionment and Party Realignment in the American States"
Stephen Ansolabehere, James M. Snyder, Jr.
(pdf, 252kb, pp. 21)
- "The Introduction of Voter Registration and Its Effect on Turnout"
Stephen Ansolabehere and David Konisky
(pdf, 315kb, pp. 27)
