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Stephen Ansolabehere

Stephen Ansolabehere is Professor of Government at Harvard University and coauthor of Cheap and Clean: How Americans Think about Energy in the Age of Global Warming

Articles

Global warmning doesn’t register highly among Americans’ environmental concerns. 
Stephen Ansolabehere, David M. Konisky
The decline in turnout from 2008 to 2012 is a puzzle.
Stephen Ansolabehere

A remarkable thing happened in U.S. politics last year.

Stephen Ansolabehere

Stephen Ansolabehere on the Election

David V. Johnson, Stephen Ansolabehere
Most of the demographic change in America today comes not from waves of new immigration, but from the echoes of past migration.
Stephen Ansolabehere
Hispanics are developing stronger attachments to the Democrats.
Stephen Ansolabehere
Voting is important, but American democracy depends on another form of civic participation: running for office.
Stephen Ansolabehere
Tea Party-endorsed Republicans didn't do much better than non-endorsed Republicans. Many did worse. 
Stephen Ansolabehere, James M. Snyder, Jr.
Stephen Ansolabehere

How accurate are voter registration lists?

Stephen Ansolabehere, Eitan Hersh

As the final House vote on health care confirmed, Congress is starkly polarized over President Obama’s agenda. A poll shows similar divisions among the rest of us.

Stephen Ansolabehere

Forums

America's voting technologies are gravely inefficient, but solutions are less complicated than many politicians have indicated.

Stephen Ansolabehere

Forum Responses

The deregulation juggernaut has rolled through nearly every industry in the United States over the last two decades. Of all the industries that the US has opened up, communications has perhaps the...
Stephen Ansolabehere
The diagnosis Representative Cooper provides for the current state of dysfunction in Washington, D.C. is an interesting one. And he proposes a provocative cure. The symptom: declining political responsiveness and increased partisan...
Stephen Ansolabehere
I would like to address three themes that run through these illuminating and challenging comments. First, should election administration and technology rank high on the list of political reforms in the United...
Stephen Ansolabehere

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