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Social Pressure and Voter Turnout

A 2008 study published by the American Political Science Association by Alan Gerber, Donald Green & Christopher Larimer lays out a convincing case of how social pressure can lead to increased voter turnout. We lamented in a previous blog post, how...
The complexity of Networks

The complexity of Networks

Network Analysis As I have written before, I am becoming obsessed with two things: the study of persuasion and the study of networks and their effects on the political process. Today, a fellow political consultant sent me the following link to a Ted Talk by James B....