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Government 317 (Fall 2001), ``Campaigns and Elections''

Cornell University, Prof. Walter R. Mebane, Jr.

legislator service-price-quality model examples (pdf) (postscript)

presidential pork targeting (html) (pdf); (postscript)

two-dimensional spatial model examples (html) (pdf); (postscript)

National Election Studies; NES Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior

NES Data Overview (handout for class of 13 November 2001)

NES Cumulative Data File 1948-98 Codebook Introduction; NES Cumulative Data File 1948-98 Codebook Detailed Information; NES Cumulative Data File 1948-98 Codebook Appendix

NES 2000 Pre- and Post-Election Study Codebook Introduction; NES 2000 Pre- and Post-Election Study Codebook Detailed Information; NES 2000 Pre- and Post-Election Study Codebook Appendix

NES 1984 Continuous Monitoring Study Codebook

NES Data Analysis Automaton Program Examples

supplementary material

Mebane, Walter R. Jr., and Gregory J. Wawro. 1999. ``Pork Barrel Politics in Presidential Elections. (html)'' ((pdf); (postscript))

Mebane, Walter R., Jr., Marc T. Ratkovic and Michael W. Tofias. 2001. ``Legislative Context, Legislator Quality and Campaign Contributions (pdf); (postscript)'' Prepared for delivery at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 19-22, Palmer House, Chicago. A previous version of this paper was presented at the 2000 Summer Methods Conference, UCLA, July 20-22.

Mebane, Walter R., Jr. 2000. ``Congressional Campaign Contributions, District Service and Electoral Outcomes in the United States: Statistical Tests of a Formal Game Model with Nonlinear Dynamics." In Political Complexity: Nonlinear Models of Politics, Diana Richards, ed. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. (html; postscript)

McDonald, Michael P., and Samuel L. Popkin. September 2000. ``The Myth of the Vanishing Voter (pdf)'' University of Illinois, Springfield, University of California, San Diego.

Wand, Jonathan N., Kenneth W. Shotts, Jasjeet S. Sekhon, Walter R. Mebane, Jr., Michael C. Herron, Henry E. Brady. 2001. ``The Butterfly Did It: The Aberrant Vote for Buchanan in Palm Beach County, Florida''. Forthcoming, American Political Science Review, December 2001.

Brady, Henry E., Justin Buchler, Matt Jarvis and John McNulty. September 2001. ``Counting All the Votes: The Performance of Voting Technology in the United States (pdf)'' University of California, Berkeley.

United States General Accounting Office. October 2001. ``Elections: Statistical Analysis of Factors That Affected Uncounted Votes in the 2000 Presidential Election (pdf)'' GAO-02-122. Report to the Ranking Minority Member, Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives

United States General Accounting Office. October 2001. ``Elections: A Framework for Evaluating Reform Proposal (pdf)'' GAO-02-90.

Mebane, Walter R., Jr., and Jasjeet S. Sekhon. 2001. ``Coordination and Policy Moderation at Midterm (pdf); (postscript).'' Forthcoming, American Political Science Review, March 2002.

Mebane, Walter R., Jr. 2001. `` Coordination among American Voters with Heterogeneous Expectations (pdf); (postscript)'' Prepared for delivery at the Annual Public Choice Society Meeting 2001, March 9-11, San Antonio, Texas.

Mebane, Walter R., Jr. 2000. ``Coordination, Moderation, and Institutional Balancing in American Presidential and House Elections. (postscript); (pdf)'' Appearing in the American Political Science Review, March 2000.

Fall 2000 Office Hours: Tuesday 4:30-5:30, Wednesday 2-4

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