Browsing HKS Faculty Scholarship by Keyword "voting"

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    • Text Messages as Mobilization Tools: The Conditional Effect of Habitual Voting and Election Salience 

      Malhotra, Neil; Michelson, Melissa R.; Rogers, Todd T; Valenzuela, Ali Adam (Sage, 2011)
      Dale and Strauss’s (DS) noticeable reminder theory (NRT) of voter mobilization posits that mobilization efforts that are highly noticeable and salient to potential voters, even if impersonal, can be successful. In an ...

    • Voters in the Crosshairs 

      Ganz, Marshall Louis (The American Prospect, 2001)
      New technologies were supposed to enable campaigns to reach more voters. Instead, they ended up fragmenting and alienating much of the electorate.

    • What Does “Intending to Vote” Mean? 

      Rogers, Todd T (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012)
      How accurate are responses to questions about intentions to vote in an upcoming election? Questions of this type are studied in a range of work in political science to understand the effects of other factors on political ...

    • Why Bother Asking? The Limited Value of Self-Reported Vote Intention 

      Rogers, Todd T (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012)
      How accurate are people when predicting whether they will vote? These self-predictions are used by political scientists to proxy for political motivation, and by public opinion researcher to predict election outcomes. Phone ...

    • The Year in Elections, 2013: The World's Flawed and Failed Contests 

      Norris, Pippa; Frank, Richard W.; Martinez i Coma, Ferran (The Electoral Integrity Project, 2014)
      In many countries, polling day ends with disputes about ballot-box fraud, corruption, and flawed registers. Which claims are accurate? And which are false complaints from sore losers? New evidence gathered by the Electoral ...