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Crowded Out: The Effects of Concurrent Elections on Political Engagement, Candidate Evaluation, and Campaign Learning in the United States (2023)
Journal Article
Andersen, D. (2023). Crowded Out: The Effects of Concurrent Elections on Political Engagement, Candidate Evaluation, and Campaign Learning in the United States. Representation: Journal of Representative Democracy, https://doi.org/10.1080/00344893.2023.2261450

Holding multiple elections simultaneously, also known as concurrent elections, is well known to benefit electoral systems by increasing the rate of voter turnout. Essentially, the public becomes more willing to participate in voting because they can... Read More about Crowded Out: The Effects of Concurrent Elections on Political Engagement, Candidate Evaluation, and Campaign Learning in the United States.

The Importance of Candidate Sex and Partisan Preference Over Time: A Multi-day Study of Voter Decision-Making (2020)
Journal Article

Women often face challenges when running for political office, but precisely when and how candidate sex affects voter decision making is unclear. Using a unique multiday, high-information experiment, we examine how the presence of women candidates in... Read More about The Importance of Candidate Sex and Partisan Preference Over Time: A Multi-day Study of Voter Decision-Making.

Information and its Presentation: Treatment Effects in Low-Information vs. High-Information Experiments (2018)
Journal Article

This article examines how the presentation of information during a laboratory experiment can alter a study’s findings. We compare four possible ways to present information about hypothetical candidates in a laboratory experiment. First, we manipulate... Read More about Information and its Presentation: Treatment Effects in Low-Information vs. High-Information Experiments.

Effect of Media Environment Diversity and Advertising Tone on Information Search, Selective Exposure, and Affective Polarization (2016)
Journal Article

This paper examines the effects of our modern media environment on affective polarization. We conducted an experiment during the last month of the 2012 presidential election varying both the choice of media sources available about the major president... Read More about Effect of Media Environment Diversity and Advertising Tone on Information Search, Selective Exposure, and Affective Polarization.