Eitan D. Hersh
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Articles

5.  "Targeted Campaign Appeals and the Value of Ambiguity." 2013.  With Brian F. Schaffner.  Journal of Politics. 75 (2): 520-534.

4. "Validation: What Big Data Reveal About Survey Misreporting and the Real Electorate." 2012. With Stephen Ansolabehere. Political Analysis. 20 (4): 437-459.
   
3. "Movers, Stayers, and Registration: Why Age is Correlated with Registration in the U.S." With Stephen Ansolabehere and Kenneth Shepsle. 2012. Quarterly Journal of Political Science. 7 (4): 333-363. 

2. ``Voting Costs and Voter Turnout in Competitive Elections.'' 2011. With Bernard Fraga. Quarterly Journal of Political Science 5(4): 339-356.
  

1. ``Primary Voters Versus Caucus Goers and the Peripheral Motivations of Political Participation." 2011. Political Behavior. Published Online, DOI 10.1007/s11109-011-9175-8.

Book Project

Hacking the Electorate: An Information Theory of Political Mobilization
                                 
The book is based largely on new material. However, two chapters draw on evidence from my doctoral dissertation, which was composed of the following three papers:

At the Mercy of Data: Campaigns' Reliance on Available Information in Mobilizing Supporters

The Public Code of Racialized Electioneering

Persuadable Voters in the Eyes of the Persuaders


Working Papers

Income-Based Voting in Local Racial Context: Rediscovering Geographic Legacies Using "Big Data" (with Clayton Nall).
       
Gender, Race, and Voting: A Research Note (with Stephen Ansolabehere)


Are Close Elections Random?  (with Justin Grimmer, Brian Feinstein, and Daniel Carpenter)

Other Academic Writing

``Who Really Votes?'' In Facing the Challenge of Democracy, eds. Paul M. Sniderman and Benjamin Highton. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2011. With Stephen Ansolabehere.
 

The Quality of Voter Registration Records: A State-by-State Analysis, Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project Report, July 14, 2010 (with Stephen Ansolabehere)
 
Voter Registration List Quality Pilot Studies, Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project Report, June 8, 2010 (with Stephen Ansolabehere, David Doherty, and Alan Gerber)