Voting Behavior Links

Professor David Redlawsk
Department of Political Science

Important Links for 30:157 Voting Behavior and Elections

Generally Informative Sites
About the 2000 Election Debacle
Electoral Systems

REQUIRED READINGS FROM THE SYLLABUS
(Note that most of these require you access them from a computer on the UI campus.)

Frankfort & Nachmias, Ch 10 (Jan 24) - Online at our ICON site.

Seltzer, Ch VIII (Jan 24) - Online at our ICON site.

Michael Schudson, "What if Civic Life didn't Die?"; Theda Skocpol, "Unravelling From Above" (Mar 6)

Claude S. Fisher, "Bowling Alone: What's the Score?" (Mar 6)

Popkin, The Reasoning Voter (Apr 10) - Online at our ICON site.

Bartels, Uninformed Votes: Information Effects in Presidential Elections, American Journal of Political Science, 1996. [on campus access only]

Lau & Redlawsk, Advantages and Disadvantages of Using Cognitive Heuristics. American Journal of Political Science, 2001. [on campus access only]

Other interesting readings:

The Vanishing Voter Poll from May 2004 show voters were much more interested in the fall election than they were in 2000. As it turned out the trend continued to election day, with overall turnout up in 2004, especially in "battleground" states.

The question of using computers for voting machines is becoming a hot one. There was interesting story in the Chronicle of Higher Education in April 2004 about concerns computer scientists have about voting machines with no verifiability.

The Vanishing Voter project released a poll in March 2004 showing young voters seemingly more interested than usual in the 2004 election. Did it pan out? Was the youth vote up? There is some evidence that it was, but no more than any other age group!

Generally Informative Sites (Back to Top)

UI Libraries List of Election/Voting Sites Election related sites put together by Marianne Mason, the Federal Documents Coordinator and Reference Librarian for UI	Why Polls Differ A SLATE column on the differences between polls.
World's Smallest Political Quiz See where you stand, courtesy of the Libertarians	The Vanishing Voter A project tracking the American voter
National Election Studies 50 Years of ongoing voting research at the Univ. of Mich.	Onpolitics.Com The Washington Post's Politics site
Univ. of Michigan Documents Center A fantastic collection of political science links!	Electoral Compass - from the Netherlands See how you stack up on issues compared to the presidential candidates