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TOP 10 Papers for Journal of PSN: Voters & Elections (Topic)

January 2, 1997 to June 19, 2013



Rank Downloads Paper Title
1 14451 Social Mood, Stock Market Performance and U.S. Presidential Elections: A Socionomic Perspective on Voting Results
Deepak Goel, Wayne D. Parker, Robert R. Prechter, Matthew Lampert,
Socionomics Institute, Socionomics Institute, Socionomics Foundation, Emory University School of Medicine, Socionomics Institute, University of Cambridge,
Date posted to database: January 19, 2012
Last Revised: November 6, 2012
2 1406 The Great Gun Control War of the 20th Century — And its Lessons for Gun Laws Today
David B. Kopel,
Independence Institute,
Date posted to database: May 30, 2012
Last Revised: February 6, 2013
3 1277 Advocacy 2.0: An Analysis of How Advocacy Groups in the United States Perceive and Use Social Media as Tools for Facilitating Civic Engagement and Collective Action
Cliff Lampe, Jonathan A. Obar, Paul Zube,
University of Toronto - Faculty of Information, Unaffiliated Authors - affiliation not provided to SSRN, Unaffiliated Authors - affiliation not provided to SSRN,
Date posted to database: November 8, 2011
Last Revised: August 6, 2012
4 1210 Partisan Polarization and the Rise of the Tea Party Movement
Alan Abramowitz,
Emory University,
Date posted to database: August 1, 2011
Last Revised: August 18, 2011
5 813 The Personal Wealth Interests of Politicians and Government Intervention in the Economy
Laurence van Lent, Ahmed Tahoun,
London Business School, Tilburg University - CentER for Economic Research and Dept. of Accounting,
Date posted to database: March 14, 2010
Last Revised: August 17, 2012
6 734 Setting the Rules of the Game: The Choice of Electoral Systems in Advanced Democracies
Carles Boix,
Princeton University - Department of Politics and Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs,
Date posted to database: March 20, 2000
Last Revised: July 27, 2007
7 717 A Political Theory of Populism
Daron Acemoglu, Konstantin Sonin, Georgy Egorov,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, New Economic School,
Date posted to database: November 5, 2010
Last Revised: November 5, 2010
8 708 The Effect of Voter Identification Laws on Turnout
R. Michael Alvarez, Jonathan N. Katz, Delia Bailey,
California Institute of Technology, Washington University in Saint Louis - Center for Empirical Research in the Law, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Date posted to database: January 17, 2008
Last Revised: February 20, 2008
9 572 Communication Costs, Information Acquisition, and Voting Decisions in Proxy Contests
Utpal Bhattacharya,
Indiana University Bloomington - Department of Finance,
Date posted to database: April 1, 2003
Last Revised: January 25, 2008
10 572 The Political Consequences of Uninformed Voters
Anthony Fowler, Michele Margolis,
Unaffiliated Authors - affiliation not provided to SSRN, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Political Science,
Date posted to database: April 5, 2011
Last Revised: February 9, 2012

RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days)
TOP 10 Papers for Journal of PSN: Voters & Elections (Topic)

April 20, 2013 to June 19, 2013



Rank Downloads Paper Title
1 59 The Geography of Discrimination in Voting: MRP Meets the VRA
Christopher S. Elmendorf, Douglas M. Spencer,
University of California, Davis - School of Law, University of Connecticut, School of Law,
Date posted to database: May 11, 2013
Last Revised: May 11, 2013
2 50 Section 5 as Simulacrum
Justin Levitt,
Loyola Marymount University - Loyola Law School Los Angeles,
Date posted to database: May 16, 2013
Last Revised: June 9, 2013
3 37 A Voter's Eye View of the 2012 Election
Charles Stewart III,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Political Science,
Date posted to database: April 13, 2013
Last Revised: April 19, 2013
4 36 Corruption Temptation
Guy-Uriel E. Charles,
Duke Law School,
Date posted to database: May 31, 2013
Last Revised: May 31, 2013
5 35 Taking Dissenting by Deciding All the Way Down
Ilya Somin,
George Mason University - School of Law, Faculty,
Date posted to database: June 12, 2013
Last Revised: June 12, 2013
6 26 On the Validity of the Regression Discontinuity Design for Estimating Electoral Effects: New Evidence from Over 40,000 Close Races
Jens Hainmueller, Andrew Eggers, Olle Folke, Anthony Fowler, James M. Snyder, Andrew B. Hall,
London School of Economics, Columbia University, University of Chicago - Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Political Science, Harvard University - Department of Government, Harvard University,
Date posted to database: May 16, 2013
Last Revised: June 18, 2013
7 19 Do Economic Circumstances Determine Preferences? Evidence from Long-Run Panel Data
Tom O'Grady,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Political Science,
Date posted to database: April 26, 2013
Last Revised: April 26, 2013



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