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Stephen Ansolabehere

Stephen Ansolabehere

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Political Science
USA
2023

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Political Science

D-Index
57
Citations
18705
World Ranking
138
National Ranking
84

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Stephen Ansolabehere is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and has a research portfolio primarily situated within the social sciences. Their work spans multiple interconnected subfields including political science and international relations, sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, strategy and management, and law.

Their publications contribute notably to several topics, such as electoral systems and political participation, urban, neighborhood, and segregation studies, judicial and constitutional studies, political influence and corporate strategies, American constitutional law and politics, Cuban history and society, and social media and politics.

Recent papers include:

  • Cooperative Election Study Common Content, 2020, Harvard Dataverse
  • Congressional Representation: Accountability from the Constituent's Perspective, 2021, American Journal of Political Science
  • Proximity, NIMBYism, and Public Support for Energy Infrastructure, 2020, Public Opinion Quarterly
  • Cooperative Election Study Common Content, 2022, Harvard Dataverse
  • Language Models Trained on Media Diets Can Predict Public Opinion, 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent coauthors in their collaborative research include Brian Schaffner, Shiro Kuriwaki, Angelo Dagonel, Soichiro Yamauchi, and Bernard L. Fraga.

The scientist's work is often published in venues such as Harvard Dataverse, American Journal of Political Science, Public Opinion Quarterly, The Journal of Politics, and American Political Science Review.

Stephen Ansolabehere was recognized as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007.

Best Publications

  • Why is There So Little Money in U.S. Politics

    Stephen Ansolabehere;John M de Figueiredo;James M Snyder

  • "The Strength of Issues: Using Multiple Measures to Gauge Preference Stability, Ideological Constraint, and Issue Voting"

    Stephen Ansolabehere;Jonathan Rodden;James M. Snyder

  • Going negative : how political advertisements shrink and polarize the electorate

    Stephen Ansolabehere;Shanto Iyengar

  • Candidate Positioning in U.S. House Elections

    James M. Snyder;Stephen Ansolabehere

  • Does Attack Advertising Demobilize the Electorate

    Stephen Ansolabehere;Shanto Iyengar;Adam Simon;Nicholas Valentino

  • RIDING THE WAVE AND CLAIMING OWNERSHIP OVER ISSUES: THE JOINT EFFECTS OF ADVERTISING AND NEWS COVERAGE IN CAMPAIGNS

    Stephen Ansolabehere;Shanto Iyengar

  • Does Survey Mode Still Matter? Findings from a 2010 Multi-Mode Comparison

    Stephen Ansolabehere;Brian F. Schaffner

  • "Old Voters, New Voters, and the personal Vote: Using Redistricting to Estimate the Incumbency Advantage"

    James M. Snyder;Stephen Ansolabehere;Charles Stewart

  • The Media Game: American Politics in the Television Age

    Stephen Ansolabehere;Roy L. Behr;Shanto Iyengar

  • Valence politics and equilibrium in spatial election models

    Stephen Ansolabehere;James M. Snyder

  • Replicating Experiments Using Aggregate and Survey Data: The Case of Negative Advertising and Turnout

    Stephen D. Ansolabehere;Shanto Iyengar;Adam Simon

  • Validation: What Big Data Reveal About Survey Misreporting and the Real Electorate

    Stephen Ansolabehere;Eitan Hersh

  • The Incumbency Advantage in U.S. Elections: An Analysis of State and Federal Offices, 1942–2000

    Stephen Ansolabehere;James M. Snyder

  • Going negative: How Attack Ads Shrink and polarize the Electorate

    Stephen Ansolabehere;Shanto Iyengar

  • Party Control of State Government and the Distribution of Public Expenditures

    Stephen Ansolabehere;James M. Snyder

  • The Effects of Party and Preferences on Congressional Roll Call Voting

    Stephen Ansolabehere;James M. Snyder;Charles Stewart

  • Constituents’ Responses to Congressional Roll‐Call Voting

    Stephen Daniel Ansolabehere;Philip Edward Jones

  • Are PAC Contributions and Lobbying Linked? New Evidence from the 1995 Lobby Disclosure Act

    Stephen Ansolabehere;James M. Snyder;Micky Tripathi

  • Public Attitudes Toward Construction of New Power Plants

    Stephen Daniel Ansolabehere;D. M. Konisky

  • Equal Votes, Equal Money: Court-Ordered Redistricting and Public Expenditures in the American States

    Stephen Ansolabehere;Alan Gerber;Jim Snyder

  • Why Is There So Little Money in Politics

    Stephen Ansolabehere;John M. de Figueiredo;James Snyder

  • Cooperative Survey Research

    Stephen Ansolabehere;Douglas Rivers

  • Legislative Bargaining under Weighted Voting

    James M. Snyder Jr.;Michael M. Ting;Stephen Ansolabehere

  • Cheap and Clean: How Americans Think about Energy in the Age of Global Warming

    Stephen Ansolabehere;David M. Konisky

Frequent Co-Authors

James M. Snyder
James M. Snyder Harvard University
David M. Konisky
David M. Konisky Indiana University
Shanto Iyengar
Shanto Iyengar Stanford University
Alan S. Gerber
Alan S. Gerber Yale University
R. Michael Alvarez
R. Michael Alvarez California Institute of Technology
Kenneth A. Shepsle
Kenneth A. Shepsle Harvard University
Henry E. Brady
Henry E. Brady University of California, Berkeley
Gary King
Gary King Harvard University

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