A little light reading for election night: scientific papers on the very unscientific business of electing leaders:

This paper asks the question: would you vote for yourself if you didn’t know it was you? “”https://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-9221.2006.00505.x">Transformed Facial Similarity as a Political Cue: A Preliminary Investigation"

This paper does an experiment to show how enthusiasm and fear in political ads might prove contagious: “”https://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111%2Fj.0092-5853.2005.00130.x">Striking a Responsive Chord: How Political Ads Motivate and Persuade Voters by Appealing to Emotions"

Here’s a technical treatise on predicting two-stage elections. “”https://www.sciencedirect.com/science?ob=ArticleURL&udi=B6V92-4KJV2XJ-1&coverDate=12%2F31%2F2006&alid=483333400&rdoc=1&fmt=&orig=search&qd=1&cdi=5886&sort=d&view=c&acct=C000047747&version=1&urlVersion=0&userid=906544&md5=7356325339284d709b7cc2b87060ed94 “>Modeling voter choice to predict the final outcome of two-stage elections”

This comment explores the idea that if it is harder to vote, you end up with a different kind of voter pool. “”https://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=467475">Barriers to Participation, Voter Sophistication and Candidate Spending Choices in US Senate Elections"

And here’s a model of why midterm elections tend to boost party that doesn’t hold the Whitehouse. “”https://www.sciencedirect.com/science?ob=ArticleURL&udi=B6V9P-4J6W6VS-1&coverDate=06%2F30%2F2006&alid=483335414&rdoc=1&fmt=&orig=search&qd=1&cdi=5904&sort=d&view=c&acct=C000047747&version=1&urlVersion=0&userid=906544&md5=9fd868158f98fdaa2207f1ecc6d7a92d">Loss aversion, presidential responsibility, and midterm congressional elections"

Happy election night!

A little light reading for election night: scientific papers on the very unscientific business of electing leaders:

This paper asks the question: would you vote for yourself if you didn’t know it was you? “”https://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-9221.2006.00505.x">Transformed Facial Similarity as a Political Cue: A Preliminary Investigation"

This paper does an experiment to show how enthusiasm and fear in political ads might prove contagious: “”https://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111%2Fj.0092-5853.2005.00130.x">Striking a Responsive Chord: How Political Ads Motivate and Persuade Voters by Appealing to Emotions"

Here’s a technical treatise on predicting two-stage elections. “”https://www.sciencedirect.com/science?ob=ArticleURL&udi=B6V92-4KJV2XJ-1&coverDate=12%2F31%2F2006&alid=483333400&rdoc=1&fmt=&orig=search&qd=1&cdi=5886&sort=d&view=c&acct=C000047747&version=1&urlVersion=0&userid=906544&md5=7356325339284d709b7cc2b87060ed94 “>Modeling voter choice to predict the final outcome of two-stage elections”

This comment explores the idea that if it is harder to vote, you end up with a different kind of voter pool. “”https://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=467475">Barriers to Participation, Voter Sophistication and Candidate Spending Choices in US Senate Elections"

And here’s a model of why midterm elections tend to boost party that doesn’t hold the Whitehouse. “”https://www.sciencedirect.com/science?ob=ArticleURL&udi=B6V9P-4J6W6VS-1&coverDate=06%2F30%2F2006&alid=483335414&rdoc=1&fmt=&orig=search&qd=1&cdi=5904&sort=d&view=c&acct=C000047747&version=1&urlVersion=0&userid=906544&md5=9fd868158f98fdaa2207f1ecc6d7a92d">Loss aversion, presidential responsibility, and midterm congressional elections"

Happy election night!