Reading material in advance of workshops and conferences
Electoral Survey Design workshop readings
Session 1: Trade-offs in Electoral Survey Research - panel discussion
The ANES and the Importance of New Ideas, Krosnick & Lupia (60KB PDF)
Procedural transparency the credibility of election surveys, Lupia (150KB PDF)
The rolling cross-section design, Johnston & Brady (159KB PDF)
Modeling Campaign Dynamics on the Web, Johnston (92KB PDF)
Primary Politics, Jackman & Vavreck
The Exaggerated Effects of Advertising on Turnout, Vavreck (95KB PDF)
Session 2: Election Studies in Perspective
Political Knowledge, Boudreau & Lupia (67KB PDF)
Shortcuts Versus Encyclopedias, Lupia (150KB PDF)
Money, Time, and Political Knowledge, Prior & Lupia (191KB PDF)
Session 4: Approaches to Multi-level Analysis
Modeling Multilevel Data Structures, Steenbergen & Jones (4,314 KB PDF)
Interaction Models, Brambor, Clark & Golder (251KB PDF)
Multilevel and Longitudinal Modeling Using Stata, S. Rabe-Hesketh and A. Skrondal (Chapter 3 "Random-intercept models with covariates" Chapter 4 "Random-coefficient models")
Session 5: Election Campaign Studies
The 2006 Cooperative Congressional Election Study, Vavreck & Rivers (111KB PDF)
Session 8: Gender, Electoral Research and Survey Design
Don't Knows, Atkeson & Rapoport (241KB PDF)
Culture wars, Kaufmann (212KB PDF)
Social Roots of the Partisan Gender Gap, Burden (212KB PDF)
Social desirability effects, Streb, Burrell, Frederick & Genovese (112KB PDF)
Experimental Methods workshop readings
Part 1: Jon Krosnick
Jon Krosnick suggested that students read Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Generalized Causal Inference by William R. Shadish, Thomas D. Cook and Donald T. Campbell (Wadsworth Publishing 2001).
Part 2: Rebecca Morton
Rebecca Morton presented lectures from her book with Ken Williams, Cambridge University Press. The book 'Experimental Political Science and the Study of Causality From Nature to the Lab' is to be published 2010.