Broadly focused, covering electoral campaigns & strategies, voting behavior,  and electoral institutions, this Elements series offers the opportunity to publish work from new and emerging fields, especially those at the interface of technology, elections, and global electoral trends.

We seek authoritative manuscripts and cutting edge work  on electoral institutions and the administration of elections; election and campaign technology; political campaign strategy, tactics, and communications; campaign finance and spending; polling, surveying, and predictive modeling for political campaigns; participation in politics and turnout; voting behavior; emotions, political, and cognitive psychology; and voter mobilization.  While much of the work in this field is quantitative or formal/game-theoretic in nature, we encourage submissions that use multiple methods, including qualitative methodologies and creative ways of  integrating empirics.  For quantitative research,  we will seek  to integrate data and code into published manuscripts; and for mixed or qualitative methods, we will work on creative ways of integrating empirical data such as images, interview texts or recordings, or archival documents.

About the Editors

R. Michael Alvarez is Professor of Political and Computational Social Science at Caltech.  His current research focuses on election administration and technology, campaigns and elections, and computational modeling.

Emily Beaulieu Bacchus is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of International Studies at the University of Kentucky.  She is an expert in political institutions and contentious politics—focusing much of her work on perceptions of election fraud and electoral protests.  Electoral Protest and Democracy in the Developing World was published with Cambridge University Press in 2014.

Charles Stewart III is the Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor of Political Science at MIT.  His research and teaching focus on American politics, election administration, and legislative politics.

Contact the Editors

If you would like more information about this series, or are interested in writing an Element, please contact R. Michael Alvarez at rmichaelalvarez@gmail.com, Emily Beaulieu Bacchus at eabeau2@uky.edu, and Charles Stewart III at cstewart@mit.edu