My research focuses on three broad areas: public opinion and voting behavior, election administration and procedures, and survey and political methodology. In the area of public opinion and voting behavior, I have long had an interest in empirical testing of formal models of elections and voting behavior. A recent example of this interest is in my paper with Rod Kiewiet where we use the 2003 California gubernatorial recall election to test basic assumptions of rational choice models of decisionmaking.
Since 2000, much of my research has been heavily concentrated in areas associated with the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, especially voting technology, election administration, and election procedures (like voter registration). Much of this research is now coming out in the form of books, reports, and peer-reviewed publications in journals; given that this is a relatively new area of political science research, we are forging new ground in terms of developing theory and methods for studying election administration and procedures.
Last, I am actively pursuing survey and methodological research. Currently, those interests are actively being pursued in two primary areas. One is my interest in survey methodologies for sampling and studying low-incidence populations; Jonathan Nagler and I are working on survey methodologies for this area of increasing methodological attention. Another area is on-going interest in using new techniques for studying quasi-experimental data, including applications and development of methods relatively new to social science; an example here is work developing propensity score methods for multi-valued treatments to study ballot order effects.
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