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Overview

Brian F. Crisp is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on the field of Social Sciences, with a particular emphasis on Political Science and International Relations.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Game Theory and Voting Systems
  • Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
  • Judicial and Constitutional Studies
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • Policy Transfer and Learning
  • Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting

Brian F. Crisp has published in several venues, with the most frequent being Harvard Dataverse, where they have 68 publications. Other notable publication venues include Electoral Studies, American Political Science Review, Party Politics, and British Journal of Political Science.

Frequent co-authors of Brian F. Crisp include Caitlin Ainsley, Clifford J. Carrubba, Betul Demirkaya, Matthew J. Gabel, and Dino Hadzic.

Some of the recent papers involving Brian F. Crisp are:

  • "Capturing vote-seeking incentives and the cultivation of a personal and party vote," 2021, Electoral Studies

Other recent papers related to the broader collaboration network include:

  • "Roll-Call Vote Selection: Implications for the Study of Legislative Politics," 2020, American Political Science Review
  • "The impact of cuing candidate quality on female candidates," 2020, Electoral Studies
  • "Ballot spoilage as a response to limitations on choice and influence," 2021, Party Politics
  • "The logic of campaign spending in mixed-member electoral systems," 2022, Electoral Studies

Brian F. Crisp has also contributed to book publications. A notable work is "The Chain of Representation," published in 2020 by Cambridge University Press.

Best Publications

  • Presidentialism and democracy in Latin America

    Scott Mainwaring;Matthew Soberg Shugart

  • Strong Parties and Lame Ducks: Presidential Partyarchy and Factionalism in Venezuela

    Michael Coppedge

  • Vote-Seeking Incentives and Legislative Representation in Six Presidential Democracies

    Brian F. Crisp;Maria C. Escobar-Lemmon;Bradford S. Jones;Mark P. Jones

  • Institutional Engineering and the Nature of Representation: Mapping the Effects of Electoral Reform in Colombia

    Brian Crisp;Rachael E. Ingall

  • Constituency Building in Multimember Districts: Collusion or Conflict?

    Brian F. Crisp;Scott W. Desposato

  • Vote-earning strategies in flexible list systems: Seats at the price of unity

    Brian F. Crisp;Santiago Olivella;Michael Malecki;Mindy Sher

  • The Socioeconomic Impacts of Structural Adjustment

    Brian F. Crisp;Michael J. Kelly

  • Incentives in Mixed-Member Electoral Systems General Election Laws, Candidate Selection Procedures, and Cameral Rules

    Brian F. Crisp

  • THE ACCOUNTABILITY DEFICIT IN LATIN AMERICA

    Matthew Soberg Shugart;Erika Moreno;Brian F. Crisp

  • Magnitude and vote seeking

    Brian F. Crisp;Kathryn M. Jensen;Yael Shomer

  • Democratizing the Democracy? Crisis and Reform in Venezuela

    Brian F. Crisp;Daniel H. Levine

  • The Reputations Legislators Build: With Whom Should Representatives Collaborate?

    Brian F. Crisp;Kristin Kanthak;Jenny Leijonhufvud

  • Determinants of Home Style. The Many Incentives for Going Home in Colombia

    Rachael E. Ingall;Brian F. Crisp

  • Presidential behavior in a system with strong parties: Venezuela, 1958-1995

    Brian F. Crisp

  • Mandates, Powers, and Policies

    Gregg B. Johnson;Brian F. Crisp

  • Electoral contexts that impede voter coordination

    Brian F. Crisp;Santiago Olivella;Joshua D. Potter

  • Candidate Gender and Electoral Success in Single Transferable Vote Systems

    Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer;Michael Malecki;Brian F. Crisp

  • The Sources of Electoral Reform in Venezuela

    Brian F. Crisp;Juan Carlos Rey

  • Elections as instruments for punishing bad representatives and selecting good ones

    Brian F. Crisp;Santiago Olivella;Joshua D. Potter;William Mishler

  • The Electoral Connection and Legislative Committees

    Brian F. Crisp;Maria C. Escobar-Lemmon;Bradford S. Jones;Mark P. Jones

  • Party-System Nationalization and the Scope of Public Policy The Importance of Cross-District Constituency Similarity

    Brian F. Crisp;Santiago Olivella;Joshua D. Potter

  • Legislative Pivots, Presidential Powers, and Policy Stability

    Brian F. Crisp;Scott W. Desposato;Kristin Kanthak

  • The Strategic Use of Legislative Voting Procedures

    Brian F. Crisp;Amanda Driscoll

  • An Informed Forensics Approach to Detecting Vote Irregularities

    Jacob M. Montgomery;Santiago Olivella;Joshua D. Potter;Brian F. Crisp

  • Vote-seeking incentives and investment environments: The need for credit claiming and the provision of protectionism

    Brian F. Crisp;Nathan M. Jensen;Guillermo Rosas;Thomas Zeitzoff

  • Roll-Call Vote Selection: Implications for the Study of Legislative Politics

    Caitlin Ainsley;Clifford J. Carrubba;Brian F. Crisp;Betul Demirkaya

  • The Role of Rules in Representation: Group Membership and Electoral Incentives

    Brian F. Crisp;Betul Demirkaya;Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer;Courtney Millian

  • Entry and Coordination in Mixed-Member Systems: A Controlled Comparison Testing the Contamination Hypothesis

    Brian F. Crisp;Joshua D. Potter;John J. W. Lee

  • …And keep your enemies closer: Building reputations for facing electoral challenges

    Santiago Olivella;Kristin Kanthak;Brian F. Crisp

  • Multicountry Studies of Latin American Legislatures: A Review Article

    Brian F. Crisp;Felipe Botero

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark P. Jones
Mark P. Jones Rice University
Matthew Soberg Shugart
Matthew Soberg Shugart University of California, Davis
Nathan M. Jensen
Nathan M. Jensen The University of Texas at Austin
John M. Carey
John M. Carey Dartmouth College
John W. Patty
John W. Patty Emory University
Clifford J. Carrubba
Clifford J. Carrubba Emory University
Scott Mainwaring
Scott Mainwaring University of Notre Dame
Macartan Humphreys
Macartan Humphreys Social Science Research Center Berlin
Stephen D. Krasner
Stephen D. Krasner Stanford University
William Mishler
William Mishler University of Arizona

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