I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University,
and a Resident Fellow of Yale's Institution for Social and Policy Studies
Areas of Expertise
Campaign Strategy
Voting Behavior
Information Technology and Politics
Election Administration
Campaign Strategy
Voting Behavior
Information Technology and Politics
Election Administration
News/Announcements
Announcing the Completion of the Ground Campaign Project
November 8, 2012. Granted unprecedented access to Democratic campaign workers, Ryan D. Enos and Eitan Hersh unveil initial findings of the Ground Campaign Project (GCP), a research endeavor done in conjunction with Obama for America, NGP-VAN, and twenty-five state Democratic parties. The result of the partnership is a longitudinal study in which we interviewed nearly 4,000 campaign staffers, interns, and volunteers during the final six months of the 2012 campaign.
The Obama campaign, as well as thousands of federal and state Democratic campaigns, all use the same web-based technology to manage their mobilization efforts. Namely, they use a web interface provided by the company, NGP-VAN. Workers enter the website to access contact information about voters that is used in canvassing, direct mail, email, and phone campaigns. With the help of our partners, we embedded a survey instrument into the NGP-VAN website for all users associated with the Obama campaign across the country as well as for users associated with hundreds of Senate, House, and local races in twenty-five states. From June 11 to November 6, 2012, when workers looked up voters in their campaign database, they were randomly invited to participate in our study. Interviewing campaign activists every day for nearly six months, we have built a database consisting of nearly 4,000 respondents.
We will be using this dataset to answer questions about campaign strategy, political activists, and party politics. To see a few graphs of immediate interest in post-election analysis, visit here.
Listen to my July 24th, 2012 appearance on the the Kojo Nnamdi show.
Listen to my August 7th, 2012 appearance on the Minnesota Public Radio's, Daily Circuit
For scholars interested in working with data from Catalist LLC, which was the primary data source for my dissertation research, I am helping to organize universities that wish to participate in Catalist's academic subscription. Email me for more details.
Announcing the Completion of the Ground Campaign Project
November 8, 2012. Granted unprecedented access to Democratic campaign workers, Ryan D. Enos and Eitan Hersh unveil initial findings of the Ground Campaign Project (GCP), a research endeavor done in conjunction with Obama for America, NGP-VAN, and twenty-five state Democratic parties. The result of the partnership is a longitudinal study in which we interviewed nearly 4,000 campaign staffers, interns, and volunteers during the final six months of the 2012 campaign.
The Obama campaign, as well as thousands of federal and state Democratic campaigns, all use the same web-based technology to manage their mobilization efforts. Namely, they use a web interface provided by the company, NGP-VAN. Workers enter the website to access contact information about voters that is used in canvassing, direct mail, email, and phone campaigns. With the help of our partners, we embedded a survey instrument into the NGP-VAN website for all users associated with the Obama campaign across the country as well as for users associated with hundreds of Senate, House, and local races in twenty-five states. From June 11 to November 6, 2012, when workers looked up voters in their campaign database, they were randomly invited to participate in our study. Interviewing campaign activists every day for nearly six months, we have built a database consisting of nearly 4,000 respondents.
We will be using this dataset to answer questions about campaign strategy, political activists, and party politics. To see a few graphs of immediate interest in post-election analysis, visit here.
Listen to my July 24th, 2012 appearance on the the Kojo Nnamdi show.
Listen to my August 7th, 2012 appearance on the Minnesota Public Radio's, Daily Circuit
For scholars interested in working with data from Catalist LLC, which was the primary data source for my dissertation research, I am helping to organize universities that wish to participate in Catalist's academic subscription. Email me for more details.
