R. Michael Alvarez

Professor of Political Science, Caltech

Co-Director of the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project

Information:

My CV (pdf format)

Current projects:

My Blog (Election Updates)

The Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project

Selected recent publications:

"Internet Voting in Comparative Perspective: The Case of Estonia."PS: Political Science and Politics, forthcoming July 2009

"Rationality and Rationalistic Choice in the California Recall", British Journal of Political Science, forthcoming

"Predicting Election Outcomes from Positive and Negative Trait Assessments of Candidate Images", Political Psychology, forthcoming

"A neural basis for the effect of candidate appearance on election outcomes", Social Cognitive and Affective Neurosciences, 2008

"The Hispanic vote in the 2004 presidential election: insecurity and moral concerns", Journal of Politics, 2008.

"Are Americans confident their ballots are counted?", Journal of Politics, 2008.

"Building secure and transparent elections through standard operating procedures", Public Administration Review, 2008.

Books:

Election Fraud: Detecting and Deterring Electoral Manipulation, edited with Thad E. Hall and Susan D. Hyde, Brookings Institution Press, 2008.

Electronic Elections: The Perils and Promises of Digital Democracy, with Thad E. Hall, Princeton University Press, 2008.

Point, Click, and Vote: The Future of Internet Voting, with Thad E. Hall, Brookings Institution Press, 2004.

Hard Choices, Easy Answers: Values, Information, and American Public Opinion, with John Brehm, Princeton University Press, 2002.

Information and Elections, University of Michigan Press, 1997.

2008-2009 academic year courses:

PS 120, American Electoral Behavior and Party Strategy

SS 231a, American Politics

SS 202c, Political Theory