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:
"Assessing Voters' Attitudes Towards Electronic Voting in Latin America: Evidence from Colombia's 2007 E-Voting Pilot."E-Voting and Identity, edited by Peter Y.A. Ryan and Berry Schoenmakers, 2009
"A New Barrier to Participation: Heterogeneous Application of Voter Identification Policies." Electoral Studies, 2009
"Interstate Voter Registration Database Matching: The Oregon-Washington 2008 Pilot Project." 2009 Electronic Voting Technology Workshop/Workshop on Trustworthy Elections, Online Proceedings, 2009
"Detecting Voter Fraud in an Electronic Voting Context: An Analysis of the Unlimited Reelection Vote in Venezuela." 2009 Electronic Voting Technology Workshop/Workshop on Trustworthy Elections, Online Proceedings, 2009
"Internet Voting in Comparative Perspective: The Case of Estonia."PS: Political Science and Politics, 2009
"Rationality and Rationalistic Choice in the California Recall", British Journal of Political Science, 2009
"Predicting Election Outcomes from Positive and Negative Trait Assessments of Candidate Images", Political Psychology, forthcoming
"Assessing the Impact of E-Voting Technologies on Electoral Outcomes: An Analysis of Buenos Aires' 2005 Congressional Election", Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Electronic Voting, 2008
"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.
2009-2010 academic year courses:
PS 120, American Electoral Behavior and Party Strategy
SS 231a, American Politics
SS 202c, Political Theory