Professor Patrick Kuhn's Outputs (2)

Trickle-Down Ethnic Politics: Drunk and Absent in the Kenya Police Force (1957-1970) (2018)
Journal Article
Eynde, O. V., Kuhn, P. M., & Moradi, A. (2018). Trickle-Down Ethnic Politics: Drunk and Absent in the Kenya Police Force (1957-1970). American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 10(3), 388-417. https://doi.org/10.1257/pol.20160384

How does ethnic politics affect the state’s ability to provide policing services? Using a panel of administrative personnel data on the full careers of 6,784 police officers, we show how the rise of ethnic politics around Kenya’s independence influen... Read More about Trickle-Down Ethnic Politics: Drunk and Absent in the Kenya Police Force (1957-1970).

Reducing Turnout Misreporting in Online Surveys (2018)
Journal Article
Kuhn, P. M., & Vivyan, N. (2018). Reducing Turnout Misreporting in Online Surveys. Public Opinion Quarterly, 82(2), 300-321. https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfy017

Assessing individual-level theories of electoral participation requires survey-based measures of turnout. Yet, due to a combination of sampling problems and respondent misreporting, postelection surveys routinely overestimate turnout, often by large... Read More about Reducing Turnout Misreporting in Online Surveys.